Fact Check Posts – Page 2

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)."

By Chris Nichols • April 13, 2018

USA Trainnews
stated on January 30, 2018 a headline

"Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest illegal immigrants attending State of the Union."

By Amy Sherman • February 1, 2018

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."

By Miriam Valverde • January 26, 2018

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."

By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2017

Eric Schneiderman
stated on September 6, 2017 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show

"No court has held (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) unconstitutional."

By Miriam Valverde • September 11, 2017

Louise Slaughter
stated on September 5, 2017 a tweet

Rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program "will harm our economy."

September 10, 2017

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."

By Miriam Valverde • May 31, 2017

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."

By Chris Nichols • April 28, 2017

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."

By Eric Litke • April 26, 2017

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."

By Miriam Valverde • April 25, 2017

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."

By Dan Clark • March 4, 2017

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."

By Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017

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."

By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2017

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."

By Miriam Valverde • January 17, 2017

Tim Kaine
stated on November 3, 2016 a speech in Phoenix

"Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country."

By Miriam Valverde • November 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 20, 2016 in a debate

Says Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower."

By Linda Qiu, Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second presidential debate

"We've had Muslims in America since George Washington."

By Miriam Valverde • October 13, 2016

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."

By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016

María Teresa Kumar
stated on October 2, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

"Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year."

By Linda Qiu • October 2, 2016

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2016

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