Latest Fact Checks By W. Gardner Selby

Latinos not (yet) majority of Texans

By W. Gardner Selby

July 17, 2014

"Latinos now make up the majority population in Texas."

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Ted Cruz incorrectly says Barack Obama has promised amnesty to illegal immigrants

By W. Gardner Selby

July 7, 2014

Says children are coming into the U.S. in "staggering numbers" because  President Barack Obama "has been promising amnesty."

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Greg Abbott sustained four setbacks in court, though he claims a win in Supreme Court EPA case

By W. Gardner Selby

July 6, 2014

Says Greg Abbott "has lost" in court "four times in just the past few days."

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Dan Patrick was sole senator to oppose veterans program for entreprenuership

By W. Gardner Selby

July 3, 2014

Dan Patrick was the only state senator "who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own…

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David Alameel lived in La Colonia in California, but it wasn’t a colonia

By W. Gardner Selby

July 2, 2014

Says he lived in a colonia while working as a farm worker.

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Texas Republicans oppose legal status for U.S. illegal immigrants, but not mass deportation

By W. Gardner Selby

June 30, 2014

"The platform of the Republican Party says deport everybody and to hell with it."

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Ted Cruz says most people caught at the border are coming because of ‘amnesty’

By W. Gardner Selby

June 29, 2014

Says 95 percent of people caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border said in a survey "we are coming because we’ve been promised amnesty."

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Greg Abbott lacks proof Wendy Davis is under FBI scrutiny

By W. Gardner Selby

June 27, 2014

"Wendy Davis’ legal work is currently under FBI investigation."

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Water sent through Austin to downstream farmers in 2011 was three times what the city lately uses in a year

By W. Gardner Selby

June 24, 2014

Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years’ worth of Austin’s water use.

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Texas might grow by 15 million people in 25 years, but it won’t be solely because people move there

By W. Gardner Selby

June 22, 2014

"One thousand people a day are moving to Texas, which means there will be 15 million more people over the next 25 years."

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Perry airs unsupported claim about non-Mexicans apprehended at border hailing from terrorist states

By W. Gardner Selby

June 22, 2014

Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back…

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Dan Patrick has called illegal immigration an invasion and said immigrants bring ‘Third-World diseases’

By W. Gardner Selby

June 20, 2014

Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’"

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