Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on January 11, 2026 una entrevista
“No están recibiendo el entrenamiento tradicional de cinco meses… .El entrenamiento para los agentes de ICE ahora es de 47 días”.
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By Madison Czopek, Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 15, 2026
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on January 11, 2026 an interview
“They are not getting the traditional five months training. … The training for the ICE agents now is 47 days.”
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By Madison Czopek, Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 12, 2026
stated on July 8, 2025 Pod Save America
“ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”
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By Amy Sherman • July 11, 2025
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on June 11, 2025 Facebook post
"Undocumented immigrants paid more taxes last year than Amazon, GM, IBM & Netflix combined."
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By Ella Moore • June 27, 2025
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on September 25, 2024 a debate
“There was a bill to basically create a ban to make sure we never become a sanctuary state, that no locality passes those regulations, and (former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig) opposed that bill.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2024 a 2024 campaign ad
Kamala Harris “supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.”
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By Grace Abels • October 18, 2024
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on August 6, 2024 an X post
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed “legislation giving free college … to illegal immigrants.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 9, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 a speech
“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”
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By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2024
Alejandro Mayorkas
Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 3, 2024 a CNN interview
“Since May of last year, we have removed or returned more individuals than in any year since 2015.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 8, 2024
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 18, 2023 an interview
“In the last 11 months, Customs and Border Patrol has averaged 200,000 apprehensions a month, and you know how many beds we have to detain people at the border? Thirty-eight thousand."
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 20, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 12, 2023 a TV interview
"Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 19, 2023
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 6, 2023 campaign announcement speech
Donald Trump “never changed one immigration law.”
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By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 25, 2023 a radio interview
Donald Trump "wanted to amnesty 2 million illegal aliens in 2018 when he was president."
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 5, 2023
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on April 28, 2023 a tweet
“Title 42 and other Trump-era holdovers are forcing migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 5, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 5, 2023 a speech
Since a new immigration program was implemented, the number of Venezuelans trying to enter the U.S. illegally decreased “from about 1,100 per day to less than 250 per day on average.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 6, 2023
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 a tweet
“More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in 2019 under Trump.”
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By Megan Bevins, Pearse Costello • October 3, 2022
Alex Mooney
Alex Mooney
stated on August 29, 2022 a tweet
“There have now been 16 straight months of OVER 150,000 illegal border crossings.”
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By Eleanor Kenneweg, Maxwell Bruce • October 3, 2022
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on July 18, 2022 Twitter
"With three months remaining in the Fiscal Year, (the border patrol) has already encountered more illegal immigrants along the Southwest border" than in any previous fiscal year.
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By Vanessa Swales • August 18, 2022
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on February 5, 2022 a tweet
"During the first 3 months of FY2022 Customs& Border Protection recorded 518k encounters w illegal immigrants at S border That’s up 137% from same point in FY2021."
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March 3, 2022
Cori Bush
Cori Bush
stated on September 23, 2021 a tweet
“Approximately 60,000 Canadians currently live undocumented in the USA.”
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By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2021
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