Latest Fact-Checks In Border Security

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Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 22, 2024 a video
President Joe Biden appointed "Kamala Harris to be his border czar to deal with illegal immigration … Harris was put in charge of stopping illegal immigration."
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • July 24, 2024
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on June 30, 2024 an interview
“(Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro) Mayorkas said, ‘Hey you don’t have to detain aggravated felons,’ those are rapists, child predators, you know, murderers.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • July 11, 2024
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 5, 2024 an Iowa PBS interview
“We’ve had 8 million” immigrants come to the U.S. illegally under Biden “and they only sent back 142,000.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 11, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 10, 2024 a debate
“Biden’s let in 8 million people just in four years.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 11, 2024
Francis Suarez
Francis Suarez
stated on July 16, 2023 a speech at Turning Point Action Conference
"In Biden's America, 7 million people illegally crossed the border and are given a free cellphone and airline tickets."
Mostly False
By Maria Briceño • July 28, 2023
MAGA Inc
MAGA Inc
stated on May 24, 2023 an ad
“Ron DeSantis voted against the wall.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 26, 2023
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on May 10, 2023 un video de TikTok
“El gobierno de Estados Unidos estará otorgando 30,000 visas mensuales" para personas de Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador "para poder venir a vivir a los Estados Unidos por dos años con permiso de trabajo".
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 19, 2023
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on April 3, 2023 un video de TikTok
“A partir del 11 de mayo no podrán ser deportados personas que lleguen a la frontera de los Estados Unidos bajo el Título 42”.
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 16, 2023
Citizens for Sanity
Citizens for Sanity
stated on October 7, 2022 an ad
“Every single Senate Democrat voted against hiring more border agents. They voted against deporting felons. And they voted against ending catch and release.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 21, 2022
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on August 10, 2022 News release
Says Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes “supports abolishing ICE.”
Mostly False
By Vanessa Swales • August 29, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 21, 2022 an Instagram post
"The Supreme Court ruled that border agents can enter anyone’s home within a 100-mile radius of the border without a warrant for any reason and federal courts cannot do anything about it."
Mostly False
By Grace Abels • June 30, 2022
Mark Brnovich
Mark Brnovich
stated on May 23, 2022 a tweet
Increased encounters at the southwest border in April 2022 compared to April 2020 are attributable to changes in border policy.
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 2, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 12, 2022 a press release
Says the Biden administration is choosing to send baby formula to the border as one of its “out-of-touch priorities.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • May 13, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 4, 2022 News release
Federal border officials are allowing undocumented immigrants who are “known criminals who possess an arrest warrant to fly on U.S. aircraft (which) threatens our homeland security.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • March 4, 2022
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on February 20, 2022 a tweet
January 2022 fentanyl seizures show "illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate because of Biden’s open border.”
Mostly False
February 24, 2022
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on March 24, 2021 Twitter
“We have encountered the largest surge of migrants (at the southern border) in the last 20 years.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • April 12, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2021 a Facebook post
“We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 29, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 a press conference
Says there was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January, February and March “happens every year.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 26, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2021 a Facebook post
Passports aren’t required to enter the United States from Mexico and Canada.
Mostly False
March 25, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 3, 2021 a tweet
“The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.”
Mostly False
By Brandon Mulder • March 11, 2021
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