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Latest Fact-Checks By Miriam Valverde

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 9, 2015 social media posts, blogs
Latina who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump on stage in Las Vegas in October 2015 has been deported.
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • 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
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 an MSNBC interview
"President-elect Trump's immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • November 18, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 13, 2016 a 60 Minutes interview
Says there are "probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million" criminal immigrants in the country illegally.
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 15, 2016
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on November 9, 2016 a tweet
"1928 was last time Republicans had the White House, the House and the Senate."
False
By Miriam Valverde • November 11, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on November 3, 2016 a speech in Phoenix
"Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country."
True
By Miriam Valverde • November 7, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2016 a campaign rally in Springfield, Ohio
"Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 3, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 1, 2016 a campaign rally in Dade City, Fla.
Says Donald Trump "doesn't believe in equal pay."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 2, 2016
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on September 28, 2016 a TV ad
Says Donald Trump wants to deport "our Dreamers."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 30, 2016 a campaign rally in Albuquerque
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That’s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week."
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • October 31, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 25, 2016 a rally in Florida
Says Donald Trump "was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them."
True
By Miriam Valverde • October 26, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate
"Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of this country, they've been deported."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
Says Donald Trump "said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second presidential debate
"We've had Muslims in America since George Washington."
True
By Miriam Valverde • October 13, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 28, 2016 a CNN town hall
"If you look worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents have not substantially increased."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • October 13, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 the second presidential debate
"ICE just endorsed me."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate
"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 vice presidential debate
Says "Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship."  
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 7, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 a vice presidential debate in Virginia
"When Donald Trump spoke in Phoenix, he looked the audience in the eye and he said ‘no, we're building a wall and we're deporting everybody.’ He said, quote, ‘they will all be gone. They will all be gone.’ This is one of the ones where you can go to the tape on it and see what Donald Trump has said."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 5, 2016
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