Latest Fact-Checks In Homeland Security

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 29, 2021 a CNN interview
The Trump administration worked to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
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By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2021
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 26, 2019 a TV interview
"Just the last three weeks, on average about 23,000 women, children, men are coming over across the border illegally as family units or as unaccompanied children."
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By Mica Soellner • June 18, 2019
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on September 11, 2018 an MSNBC interview
Says the Trump administration transferred $10 million from FEMA to ICE.
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By Miriam Valverde • September 13, 2018
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on July 26, 2018 a speech
"One out of every 30 people in the Greater Boston area is an illegal alien."
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By Miriam Valverde • July 31, 2018
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 19, 2018 a speech
In 2017, ICE "arrested more than 127,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or facing charges of breaking our nation's’ laws," and removed nearly 5,000 gang members.
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By Miriam Valverde • July 25, 2018
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on April 11, 2018 a letter to the Trump administration
"Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California)."
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By Chris Nichols • April 13, 2018
Eric Schneiderman
Eric Schneiderman
stated on September 6, 2017 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show
"No court has held (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) unconstitutional."  
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By Miriam Valverde • September 11, 2017
John Kelly
John Kelly
stated on May 28, 2017 a Fox News interview
"Many of the countries in question (in Trump’s travel ban) don't even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet."
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By Miriam Valverde • May 31, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2017 an interview on CBS
"General Flynn got his clearance from the Obama administration."
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By Lauren Carroll • May 2, 2017
Scott Peters
Scott Peters
stated on April 24, 2017 a news article
The estimated price of President Trump’s border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers."
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By Chris Nichols • April 28, 2017
Ron Kind
Ron Kind
stated on February 16, 2017 a radio interview
"We're experiencing a net outflow of illegal, undocumented workers from America back to Mexico."  
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By Eric Litke • April 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2017 an interview with the Associated Press
Illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border is "the lowest in 17 years."
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By Miriam Valverde • April 25, 2017
Keith Ellison
Keith Ellison
stated on January 29, 2017 a CBS 'Face The Nation' interview
"About three-quarters of (Syrian refugees) are women and children. A full third of them are kids under 12 years old."
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By Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017
Luke Messer
Luke Messer
stated on January 5, 2017 a CNN story
"By funding the authorization that’s already happened a decade ago (in the Secure Fence Act of 2006), we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to secure the border."
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By Miriam Valverde • January 17, 2017
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 25, 2016 a rally in Florida
Says Donald Trump "was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them."
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By Miriam Valverde • October 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
"We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election."
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By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."  
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By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.
When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on January 26, 2015 oped commentary
The Department of Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year" by Congress.
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 18, 2015
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 14, 2014 a TV interview
The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2014
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