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Joaquin Castro

Initially elected to the Texas House in 2002, Joaquin Castro initially won election to the U.S. House in November 2012.

Joaquin Castro

Latest Fact-Checks Of Joaquin Castro

U.S. policies, and other factors, lead to overcrowded conditions for migrants in Mexico
By Maria Ramirez Uribe
April 5, 2023

“Title 42 and other Trump-era holdovers are forcing migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico.”

Polls show people in Texas are divided on the border wall
By Madlin Mekelburg
February 26, 2019

"Most people in my home state of Texas disagree with the president building a wall across our border."

Rep. Joaquin Castro claims TPS end will lead to $164B GDP loss over a decade
By Miriam Valverde
November 13, 2017

"Ending (Temporary Protected Status) and deporting legal workers would cost the United States ~$164 billion in GDP over a decade."

Joaquin Castro says conservative activist believes HIV can be spread through sewer system
By W. Gardner Selby
August 17, 2016

Says the director of an anti-abortion group receiving a Texas grant to provide women’s health services "believes HIV can be spread through the sewer system."

Joaquin Castro says Donald Trump defended World War II internment camps
By Miriam Valverde
July 29, 2016

Says "Donald Trump has defended" World War II internment camps.

Joaquin Castro to Trump: San Antonio is 60 percent Mexican-American – Mostly True
By Filipa Ioannou
June 17, 2016

"@realDonaldTrump is coming to San Antonio, which is 60% Mexican-AMERICAN."

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By W. Gardner Selby
May 9, 2014

With only 67 bills or so passed into law, "2013 was the least productive year in congressional history since we’ve been keeping record."

Joaquin Castro: Texas has gone the longest of all states not electing a Democrat to statewide office
By W. Gardner Selby
September 26, 2012

Texas is "the state that has now gone the longest without electing a Democrat statewide."

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By W. Gardner Selby, Ciara O'Rourke
April 16, 2011

"43,000 people are going to be kicked out of nursing homes or denied nursing home entrance" if the Texas House version of the state budget…

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