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Latest Fact-Checks By Miriam Valverde

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Donald Trump
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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 22, 2017
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
stated on March 8, 2017 a House Judiciary Committee hearing
Wealthy foreigners can obtain visas through a special program, but only a small number "invest in true high-unemployment areas. Almost every other EB-5 project uses gerrymandering to qualify as distressed."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 21, 2017
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017
Wayne LaPierre
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."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 2, 2017
Robert Menendez
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."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 16, 2017 a press conference
"The stock market has hit record numbers, as you know. And there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world."  
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • February 16, 2017
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on February 7, 2017 a Fox News interview
Of 1 million green cards issued a year, "almost none of those green cards are based on job skills or demonstrated economic needs."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • February 14, 2017
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
Seth Moulton
Seth Moulton
stated on January 31, 2017 a CNN interview
"ISIS is already using the rhetoric from the Trump administration, the text of this executive order, to incite attacks against us and to recruit more terrorists to their side."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 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
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 3, 2017 a tweet
"General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • January 4, 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
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