Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Ron Johnson
stated on November 1, 2018 a radio interview

"Every couple days we have a caravan size group of people apprehended trying to come into the country illegally, or coming to the ports of entry without documentation."

By D.L. Davis • November 16, 2018

Martha McSally
stated on September 16, 2018 a Fox News interview

Says U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema "voted to cut ICE."

By Miriam Valverde • September 21, 2018

Ron DeSantis
stated on September 2, 2018 a radio interview

Says Andrew Gillum "wants to abolish ICE and doesn't believe in doing any type of immigration enforcement."

By Miriam Valverde • September 11, 2018

Chris Sununu
stated on June 26, 2018 an interview

"Every time they’ve done those border patrols, they’ve taken out people who have trafficked drugs. That’s the federal government’s role. They’re doing their job."

By Ethan DeWitt • July 27, 2018

Patty Murray
stated on May 8, 2018 a Senate subcommittee hearing

"Each year ICE detains someone, it costs taxpayers over $50,000. For comparison, by the way, that's four times the amount the federal government spends on each child in our public schools."

By Miriam Valverde • May 11, 2018

John Garamendi
stated on April 2, 2018 a CNN interview

"The Coast Guard confiscated 200 tons of contraband, heroin, and so forth. At the border they collected 20 tons."

By Miriam Valverde • April 9, 2018

Kelli Ward
stated on March 16, 2018 a Facebook post

Says Rep. Martha McSally "is a #FlipFlopBorderHawk."

By Miriam Valverde • April 3, 2018

Jim Renacci
stated on January 24, 2018 an interview on Fox Business Network

In 2005 or 2006 U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer "voted for the wall."

By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 State of the Union address

Many gang members have taken advantage of "glaring loopholes and our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors."

By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 2018

Devin Nunes
stated on February 2, 2018 a staff-written memo from the House Intelligence Committee

Says the Steele dossier "was—according to (James Comey's) June 2017 testimony—'salacious and unverified.' "

By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2018

Paul Sperry
stated on January 13, 2018 a commentary

Says border fencing finished near El Paso in 2010 dramatically curtailed illegal crossings, local crime and drug smuggling.

By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2018

Marsha Blackburn
stated on November 9, 2017 a Fox News post

"When Phoenix dropped its sanctuary city policy in 2008, its murder rate fell 27 percent the following year."

By Miriam Valverde • November 17, 2017

Joaquin Castro
stated on November 1, 2017 a tweet

"Ending (Temporary Protected Status) and deporting legal workers would cost the United States ~$164 billion in GDP over a decade."

By Miriam Valverde • November 13, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on October 12, 2017 a speech

In the U.S. asylum system, "claims of 'fear to return' have skyrocketed, and the percentage of claims that are genuinely meritorious are down."

By Miriam Valverde • October 19, 2017

Roy Moore
stated on September 21, 2017 a debate

DACA was "a mere memo from the Department of Homeland security under Barack Obama, which violated the laws."

By Joshua Gillin, Miriam Valverde • September 22, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on September 14, 2017 remarks to reporters

Says "92 percent of the people agree on DACA."

By Miriam Valverde • September 18, 2017

Jeff Denham
stated on September 5, 2017 an interview on NPR

Says Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton "all voted for" a border wall as senators.

By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on April 28, 2017 remarks to law enforcement officers in New York

District attorneys "have advertised that they will charge a criminal alien with a lesser offense than presumably they would charge a United States citizen, so they won’t be deported."

By Miriam Valverde • May 10, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on April 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's This Week

Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."

By Miriam Valverde • April 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2017 a tweet

The Ninth Circuit has an overturned record "close to 80%."

By Lauren Carroll, Miriam Valverde • April 26, 2017

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