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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on April 10, 2010 a campaign commercial
"Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2010
Boyd Richie
Boyd Richie
stated on April 30, 2010 a press release
Says Gov. Rick Perry failed "to involve border sheriffs in developing plans to prevent violence in their communities."
False
May 10, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."
False
May 5, 2010
Tim James
Tim James
stated on April 26, 2010 a press release
Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to "increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English."
False
April 29, 2010
John Huppenthal
John Huppenthal
stated on April 26, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Says he did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 12, 2010
Cathie Adams
Cathie Adams
stated on February 20, 2010 a fund-raising letter
"Bill White ...offered sanctuary to illegal immigrants."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 29, 2010 a debate
Says the Texas Education Agency follows up to make sure undocumented immigrants paying in-state tuition at Texas colleges are applying for permanent residency.
False
February 15, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 28, 2009 a chain e-mail
The Democrats' health care bills would provide "free health care for illegal immigrants."
False
January 21, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 28, 2009 a chain e-mail
The House health care bill provides for "free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession."
False
January 21, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 14, 2010 a debate.
Says Kay Bailey Hutchison voted for sanctuary cities.
False
January 15, 2010
Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson
stated on September 9, 2009 the audience at a joint session of Congress
"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on June 10, 2009 his Fox News program
"Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it."
False
June 19, 2009
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on November 20, 2007 Fox News interview
"I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."
False
November 29, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
False
By David DeCamp • November 16, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 3, 2007 New Hampshire.
English "is our national language...if it becomes official, that means in a place like New York City you can't print ballots in any other language."
False
By David DeCamp • September 11, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 5, 2007 a debate in Durham, N.H.
"The Z-visa that was offered in that Senate bill let everybody who's here illegally, other than criminals, stay here for the rest of their lives."
False
By Sasha Bartolf • September 6, 2007
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