Fact Check Posts – Page 11

Jeff Sessions
stated on April 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's This Week:

Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."

By Miriam Valverde • April 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2017 a tweet:

The Ninth Circuit has an overturned record "close to 80%."

By Lauren Carroll, Miriam Valverde • April 26, 2017

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."

By Eric Litke • April 26, 2017

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."

By Miriam Valverde • April 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 a tweet:

"The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!"

By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • April 18, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 17, 2017 a tweet:

Says Jon Ossoff wants to "allow illegal immigration."

By Miriam Valverde • April 17, 2017

Mike Rogers
stated on March 30, 2017 a press release:

"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their (gross domestic product) in the form of remittances."

By Miriam Valverde • April 11, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2017 weekly address:

"Last month, we saw a 64 percent reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border."

By Miriam Valverde • April 10, 2017

Tom Cotton
stated on April 4, 2017 an interview on CNN:

"It is unusual" for a White House official like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice to make unmasking requests.

By Lauren Carroll • April 6, 2017

John Conyers, Jr.
stated on March 28, 2017 a subcommittee hearing:

"Apprehension rates at the southern border have plummeted since the 1980s, and apprehensions of Mexicans specifically have reached their lowest point in nearly half a century."

By Miriam Valverde • April 3, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on March 27, 2017 a press briefing:

"Just last May, the Department of Justice inspector general found that these (‘sanctuary city’) policies also violate federal law."

By Miriam Valverde • March 30, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 a rally in Kentucky:

"Since the day of my election, we've already cut illegal immigration at the southern border by 61 percent."

By Miriam Valverde • March 22, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 a tweet:

"The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process."

By Lauren Carroll • March 20, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 15, 2017 an interview with Fox's Tucker Carlson:

Says "the New York Times wrote about" Barack Obama wiretapping Donald Trump during the election.

By Lauren Carroll • March 16, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2017 his first Cabinet meeting:

"In the first full month of my administration following the issuance of my executive orders, illegal immigration on our southern border fell by an unprecedented 40 percent."

By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017

Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 24, 2017 a speech at CPAC:

"According to the FBI, Mexican drug cartels are working with 100,000 street gang members in Chicago alone."

By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017

Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on March 5, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"Everybody acts like President Trump is the one that came up with this idea. ... There are multiple news outlets that have reported" former President Barack Obama ordered wiretapping on Trump.

By Allison Graves • March 5, 2017

Claire McCaskill
stated on March 2, 2017 a tweet:

"I’ve been on the Armed Services (Committee) for 10 years. No call or meeting w/ Russian ambassador. Ever."

By Lauren Carroll • March 2, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2017 a speech before a joint session of Congress:

"According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country."

By Miriam Valverde • March 2, 2017

Robert Menendez
stated on February 13, 2017 a tweet:

Recent immigration raids "are not business as usual. The raids are being done indiscriminately. They’re not focused simply on criminal aliens."

By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2017

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