Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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X posts
X posts
stated on September 19, 2025 an X post
Thirty percent of U.S. medical residents are international medical graduates, and 10,000 of 43,000 residency spots are filled by H-1B visa holders.
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By Maria Briceño • October 2, 2025
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
stated on August 19, 2025 una conferencia de prensa
Las cifras de la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales de EE.UU. muestran que “tenemos 1.6 millones de inmigrantes ilegales que han regresado a su país de origen voluntariamente”.
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 5, 2025
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
stated on August 19, 2025 a press conference
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics show, “We have 1.6 million illegal aliens that have gone home voluntarily.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 2, 2025
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
stated on February 2, 2025 an interview
At Guantánamo Bay, “we'll have the capacity to continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 9, 2025
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 28, 2024 a post on X
“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”
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By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Jeanette Nuñez
Jeanette Nuñez
stated on March 15, 2024 a news conference
Miami’s immigration courts have the “largest backlog of any court in this country with 10% of the overall immigration cases,” and “more than 90%” of people lose their asylum claims.
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By Samantha Putterman • March 21, 2024
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin
stated on March 4, 2024 a Senate session
“This is the era where people are given smartphones when they cross the border and enter our country.”
Half-True
By Maria Briceño • March 7, 2024
George Borrello
George Borrello
stated on February 5, 2024 a post on X
“NYC will give $1,000 taxpayer-funded credit cards to migrants.”
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By Mary McNaughton, Delainey Muscato • February 21, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2023 a rally
The Trump administration “built nearly 500 miles of border wall.”
Half-True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 9, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 7, 2023 a roundtable discussion.
“A place like California, they give (immigrants in the country illegally) benefits. They give unemployment checks.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 9, 2023
Chip Roy
Chip Roy
stated on January 23, 2023 a tweet
"Under Biden, we have seen over 4.6 million encounters at our southern border. Most have been released into the interior and will stay here indefinitely."
Half-True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 3, 2023
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Florida Immigrant Coalition
stated on October 18, 2022 un anuncio de campaña
“Marco Rubio le ha votado en contra a los Dreamers”.
Half-True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 1, 2022
Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on October 13, 2022 a tweet
Adam Laxalt is “anti-DACA” and “fought against the protections for DACA recipients when he was attorney general.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 26, 2022
Peggy Hubbard
Peggy Hubbard
stated on September 19, 2022 a post
Martha's Vineyard declared itself as a sanctuary city until the buses arrived.
Half-True
By Gabrielle Settles • September 27, 2022
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on May 28, 2022 a newsletter
$3 million per day in "your tax dollars" are being spent to guard "unused border wall materials."
Half-True
June 16, 2022
Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
stated on April 7, 2022 a press release
“Most Americans favor keeping Title 42 in place.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • April 22, 2022
Rob Wittman
Rob Wittman
stated on April 8, 2022 a radio interview.
“They’re going to be giving these people who come across the border, giving them smartphones.”
Half-True
By Andy Nguyen, Warren Fiske • April 19, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 11, 2022 a Facebook post
"Joe Biden is giving smartphones away to illegal border crossers.”
Half-True
By Andy Nguyen • April 14, 2022
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on November 30, 2021 Twitter
Says Joe Biden “shut down travel from 8 countries in response to the Omicron variant, but he refuses to require a #COVID19 test for illegal immigrants crossing our Southern border.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • December 14, 2021
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 18, 2021 a TV interview
Over a million people apprehended at the border this year, "meaning probably another 2 or 3 million have come in illegally."
Half-True
By Nusaiba Mizan • November 15, 2021
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