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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich
stated on April 1, 2021 in a TV segment:
“The Biden administration is engaging in human trafficking because they are enabling this to happen” at the southern border.
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 6, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 30, 2021 in a tweet:
“Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.”
True
By Brandon Mulder • April 6, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Less than 500 people a year killed by all rifles combined” and “4,000 a year killed by illegals.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says the suspected Boulder mass shooter is a Muslim "who entered illegally from Mexico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 29, 2021
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on March 14, 2021 in an interview:
"We began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president.”
Half-True
By Brandon Mulder • March 29, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in a press conference:
Says there was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January, February and March “happens every year.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 in press conference:
“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2021
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson
stated on March 15, 2021 in a tweet:
"Illegal border crossings are up 173% from 1 year ago and 28% since January when President Biden stopped the wall & deportations and started catch & release."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • March 25, 2021
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2021 in a statement to the media:
"We proudly handed the Biden administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021
Alejandro Mayorkas
Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 21, 2021 in in an ABC News interview:
The border surge is “challenging” because the immigration system that had been in place for decades “was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021
Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Pirro
stated on March 20, 2021 in a TV segment:
The southern U.S. border “is now open to anyone from anywhere in the world who wishes to enter our country.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 23, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 13, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:
"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 19, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 13, 2021 in a text post:
Says Joe Biden is “now saying he inherited ‘a mess’ at the border. Fact: 9,000 illegals all of 2020. So far in 2021 108,000 entered U.S.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 17, 2021
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on March 14, 2021 in a CNN interview:
"We saw the increases (of unaccompanied minors at the southern U.S. border) dating back almost a year."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 17, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Illegal aliens will receive $1,400 stimulus checks.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • March 12, 2021
Ashley Moody
Ashley Moody
stated on March 9, 2021 in a Fox & Friends interview:
Says the Biden administration is canceling immigration detainers and “requiring our law enforcement leaders to release” serious criminal offenders.
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 12, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on March 8, 2021 in a Facebook post and tweet:
Current immigration "apprehension numbers are worse than the 'crisis' Biden/Obama/Pelosi acknowledged in 2014!"
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • March 11, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 3, 2021 in a tweet:
“The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.”
Mostly False
By Brandon Mulder • March 11, 2021
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 3, 2021 in Daily Signal op ed:
The voting bill known as H.R. 1 would mean “that millions of illegal immigrants are quickly registered to vote."
False
By Amy Sherman • March 5, 2021
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