Fact Check Posts – Page 19

Jeff Sessions
stated on August 7, 2017 in a press release:

Chicago city officials "have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents."

By Matt Dietrich • August 16, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 28, 2017 in a speech:

"The border is down 78 percent. Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down -- it went up."

By Miriam Valverde • August 3, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2017 in an immigration roundtable discussion:

"We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.

By Miriam Valverde • June 30, 2017

Ainsley Earhardt
stated on June 20, 2017 in the "Fox and Friends" show:

"5.7 million -- that’s how many illegal immigrants might have voted" in 2008.

By Amy Sherman • June 22, 2017

Claire McCaskill
stated on January 31, 2017 in a Senate hearing for Rex Tillerson’s nomination for U.S. Secretary of State:

"Nobody applies to the United States for refugee status. They apply to the United Nations."

By Aleissa Bleyl • April 24, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 in 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

Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2017 in a tweet:

"Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."

By Cassie Owens • March 28, 2017

Greg Abbott
stated on February 6, 2017 in a tweet:

Says Travis County’s sheriff refuses to enforce 8 USC 1373.

By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2017

Dawn Buckingham
stated on February 8, 2017 in a campaign email blast:

"Hundreds of illegal immigrants subject to detainers were released in the last week since the new sanctuary policy was adopted by the Travis County Sheriff's Office."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2017 in an interview with Bill O'Reilly:

Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.

By Linda Qiu • February 6, 2017

Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on January 30, 2017 in a press release:

Says former President Barack Obama "took similar action against Cuban refugees" as President Donald Trump did in his executive order.

By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2017 in an interview with CBN:

"If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible."

By Linda Qiu • January 29, 2017

Sean Spicer
stated on January 24, 2017 in the daily press briefing:

"There's one (study) that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14 percent of people who voted were noncitizens."

By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017

Bloggers
stated on November 14, 2016 in an article on InfoWars:

"Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens."

By Allison Graves • November 18, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on September 6, 2016 in a radio ad:

Says Ron Johnson "has essentially done nothing" to fight heroin addiction and opioid abuse.

By Tom Kertscher • October 26, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on September 27, 2016 in a Facebook post:

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to bring in thousands of refugees to America from all around the world without any kind of security screening."

By Joshua Gillin • September 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2016 in a speech in North Carolina:

Says "Hillary Clinton's plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs."

By Miriam Valverde • September 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2016 in a speech in Philadelphia:

"Our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants."

By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • September 9, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

"Donald Trump’s been completely consistent" about his plan for nonviolent undocumented immigrants.

By Linda Qiu • September 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2016 in a rally:

As governor, Tim Kaine "oversaw a huge increase in illegal immigration, a tremendous increase."

By Sean Gorman • August 29, 2016

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