Latest Fact-Checks In Homeland Security

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Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 3, 2017 a CNN interview
Israel cut its illegal immigration rate by "99 percent" by constructing a 143-mile fence along its southern border.
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • February 13, 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."
True
By Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2017 a tweet
"The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu, Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 18, 2017 an interview on Fox News
"The Taliban went after and murdered" people identified in the Chelsea Manning leaks. 
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on January 30, 2017 a daily press briefing
The language that's part of the president's National Security Council memo "is identical to the language" used by President George W. Bush in 2001 and President Barack Obama in 2009.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • January 31, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on November 22, 2016 a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.
Mostly False
By Fauzeya Rahman • January 31, 2017
Joe DeFelice
Joe DeFelice
stated on January 25, 2017
"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."
Mostly False
By Cassie Owens • January 31, 2017
Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 a CNN interview
"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 remarks at Department of Homeland Security
Says ICE and border patrol officers "unanimously endorsed me for president."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • January 26, 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."
True
By Miriam Valverde • January 17, 2017
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on January 10, 2017 Sessions' Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general
Of Sen. Jeff Sessions, "you've objected to immigrants volunteering to serve in our armed forces, saying, 'In terms of who's going to be most likely to be a spy, somebody from Cullman, Ala., or somebody from Kenya?'"
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • January 10, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2017 a statement released by the transition office
Activities by foreign governments had "absolutely no effect on the outcome of this election."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2017
Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters
stated on January 4, 2017 an episode of Fox News' "Outnumbered"
Says John Podesta’s email password was "password." 
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 6, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 23, 2016 an interview
"We don't get any of that information" from the federal government on who refugees are, where they come from and how long they are likely to stay.
Mostly False
January 6, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2016 a tweet
"If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • December 15, 2016
Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera
stated on December 12, 2016 an interview on Fox News' Hannity
Says "tens of thousands of children" were rushed across the southwest border "because they fear the wall."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • December 15, 2016
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 1, 2016 an MRCTV post
"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • December 7, 2016
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on November 16, 2016 an interview with McClatchy's Washington bureau
"NAFTA allows a lot of trucks from Mexico, for example, to leave there and ... drive straight through without even being inspected."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2016
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 a WNYC interview
On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."  
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016
Javier M. Gonzales
Javier M. Gonzales
stated on November 16, 2016 an interview on The Kelly File
"Study after study have shown that sanctuary cities do not lead to an increase in crime because of the presence of people that are undocumented."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 28, 2016
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