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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on April 11, 2018 a letter to the Trump administration:
"Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California)."
True
By Chris Nichols • April 13, 2018
USA Trainnews
USA Trainnews
stated on January 30, 2018 a headline:
"Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest illegal immigrants attending State of the Union."
True
By Amy Sherman • February 1, 2018
Ronald Brownstein
Ronald Brownstein
stated on January 23, 2018 a CNN interview:
"They found 60 votes in the Senate in 2006 and 2013" for immigration legislation, and "each time the House Republican majority refused to take it up."
True
By Miriam Valverde • January 26, 2018
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on September 18, 2017 a speech at Sacramento State University:
"Seventy-six percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act … with citizenship and legalization as part of it all. … More than 60 percent of Republicans support that."
True
By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2017
Eric Schneiderman
Eric Schneiderman
stated on September 6, 2017 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show:
"No court has held (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) unconstitutional."  
True
By Miriam Valverde • September 11, 2017
Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
stated on September 5, 2017 a tweet:
Rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program "will harm our economy."
True
By PolitiFact Staff • September 10, 2017
John Kelly
John Kelly
stated on May 28, 2017 a Fox News interview:
"Many of the countries in question (in Trump’s travel ban) don't even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet."
True
By Miriam Valverde • May 31, 2017
Scott Peters
Scott Peters
stated on April 24, 2017 a news article:
The estimated price of President Trump’s border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers."
True
By Chris Nichols • April 28, 2017
Ron Kind
Ron Kind
stated on February 16, 2017 a radio interview:
"We're experiencing a net outflow of illegal, undocumented workers from America back to Mexico."  
True
By Eric Litke • April 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2017 an interview with the Associated Press:
Illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border is "the lowest in 17 years."
True
By Miriam Valverde • April 25, 2017
Sean Ryan
Sean Ryan
stated on March 1, 2017 a press conference:
"Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City."
True
By Dan Clark • March 4, 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
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 a State of the State Address:
Twenty-seven percent of Californians, almost 11 million, "were born in a foreign land."
True
By Chris Nichols • January 24, 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
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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 20, 2016 in a debate:
Says Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower."
True
By Linda Qiu, Riley Snyder • 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 20, 2016 a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees:
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."  
True
By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016
María Teresa Kumar
María Teresa Kumar
stated on October 2, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":
"Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year." 
True
By Linda Qiu • October 2, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2016
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