Fact Check Posts – Page 20

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention

"There are about 350,000 people who succeed in crossing our borders illegally each year."

By Miriam Valverde • July 19, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention”

"Hillary Clinton is for open borders."

By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton’s immigration platform would "create totally open borders."

By Amy Sherman • June 23, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2016 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity

Even among "second and third generation" Muslims in the United States, "there's no real assimilation."

By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech on terrorism and immigration

There is "no system to vet" refugees from the Middle East.

By Linda Qiu • June 13, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 8, 2016 an interview on 'Meet the Press'

"You have to be a citizen to vote," but with same-day voter registration, "you have places where people just walk in and vote."

By Lauren Carroll • May 8, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2016 comments during the CNN debate

"If it weren’t for me … (illegal immigration) wouldn’t even be a big subject."

By Aaron Sharockman • February 26, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 2, 2016 a town hall event in Windham, N.H.

The 2013 immigration bill "expanded President Obama’s ability to bring Syrian refugees to this country without mandating any meaningful background checks."

By Joshua Gillin, Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 31, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

"We have more illegal immigrants here" than we did five years ago.

By Lauren Carroll • January 31, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2016 a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa

"When they say Mexico can't pay for the wall, I say of course they can. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that's unbelievably big. ... It's billions and billions of dollars -- far more than what we're talking about for the wall."

By Amy Sherman • January 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2016 the South Carolina presidential debate

Among Syrian refugees and migrants coming into Europe, "there look like very few women. Very few children."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 5, 2016 an interview with The Washington Post

Canadian-born Ted Cruz "has had a double passport."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 6, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on December 17, 2015 a radio interview.

"Existing law right now requires 700 miles of double-layered border fencing" on the Mexico border.

By Sean Gorman • December 29, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas

"One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight bill was that it gave President Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees, without mandating any background checks whatsoever."

By Joshua Gillin • December 18, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on November 10, 2015 a Facebook comment

"Illegal immigrants mow the grass around the (Texas) Capitol."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 27, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on November 17, 2015 a campaign stop in Concord, N.H.

"The vast majority of (Syrian) refugees are young, able-bodied men looking for work."

By Nick Reid • November 20, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on November 12, 2015 remarks to reporters in South Carolina

Says Ted Cruz "is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally" and "proposed giving them work permits."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 18, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on October 31, 2015 a speech at the Republican Party of Iowa's Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines

"I am the only person in this field who is against amnesty. Every other person in this field wants to allow people who are here illegally to be able to stay here, in one form or another."

By Jason Noble • November 8, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 4, 2015 an interview on ABC "This Week"

Among Syrian refugees, "there aren't that many women, there aren't that many children."

By Joshua Gillin • October 4, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 a GOP presidential debate on CNN

Says Mexico doesn't have birthright citizenship, and Americans are the "only ones" to have it.

By Katie Sanders • September 17, 2015

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