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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Bryan Hughes
Bryan Hughes
stated on December 1, 2015 a campaign press release
"David Simpson actually voted for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 26, 2014 In a viral YouTube video
A Muslim immigrant in Michigan can list his second, third or fourth wives as "extended family" and qualify for welfare.
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • December 7, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on November 12, 2015 an interview with the Texas Tribune's Evan Smith
"If we pass immigration reform, it will make wages go up on average $250 for the average household."  
Mostly False
By Emma Hinchliffe • November 20, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 18, 2015 a tweet
"8 Syrians caught at Texas border in Laredo."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour • November 20, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 16, 2015 an official statement posted on Facebook.
"There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 19, 2015
Courageous Conservatives PAC
Courageous Conservatives PAC
stated on November 6, 2015 a radio ad
"When Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio tried to push amnesty, it was Ted Cruz who stopped them."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 13, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth undercard GOP debate.
"Only one out of five of the so-called ‘Syrian refugees’ who went into Europe were actually Syrian."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 11, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 25, 2015 Values Voter Summit
When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 25, 2015 a tweet
"How do Jeb Bush and Donald Trump differ on immigration? Spoiler alert: They don't."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2015
Corey Lewandowski
Corey Lewandowski
stated on August 23, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
Says "there’s 400,000" anchor babies born in the United States a year, which are "individuals coming to our country and having their children so their children can be U.S. citizens."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • August 23, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president
"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."
Mostly False
By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015
Allison Tant
Allison Tant
stated on July 15, 2015 a press release
Says Carlos Lopez-Cantera "even voiced enthusiastic support for bringing an Arizona-style immigration law to Florida, calling the measure 'common sense.’"  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 16, 2015
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on July 8, 2015 comments on CNN
"We know from ... the federal data, that they only stop or apprehend one out of four illegal people crossing our border."
Mostly False
By Anna Bruzgulis • July 14, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 1, 2015 an interview on Fox Business Network
"Hundreds of thousands of (illegal immigrants are) going to state and federal penitentiaries."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • July 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 5, 2015 an appearance at a high school in Las Vegas, Nev.
"Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2015
ForAmerica
ForAmerica
stated on April 12, 2015 a meme on social media
"American families work hard to earn $4,250 a month. Obama is spending $18,972 a month on each illegal immigrant child."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2015
People for the American Way
People for the American Way
stated on April 13, 2015 a radio ad
Says Marco Rubio "voted to deport" young people known as Dreamers.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • April 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 27, 2015 a speech at CPAC
"There are at least three sectors of the border, one in particular, that are just completely insecure."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • March 5, 2015
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on February 4, 2014 a broadcast of the "Laura Ingraham Show"
Says Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has an "immigrant family background."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2015
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