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Facebook posts
stated on January 11, 2019 tweets and Facebook posts:
Says Congress set aside $50 billion for the Secure Fence Act in 2006
False
By Amy Sherman • January 22, 2019
Mark Walker
Mark Walker
stated on January 9, 2019 a tweet:
"The debate on securing our border can't be measured in partisan jabs. It has to be measured in the human toll caused by porous borders: 1/3 migrant women are sexually assaulted;  7/10 migrants are victims of violence; 20k migrant children were illegally smuggled last month."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • January 21, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 6, 2019 a Facebook post:
Says Donald Trump "said illegal immigration has been a problem in America for 'thousands of years.' "  
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • January 18, 2019
Ted Budd
Ted Budd
stated on January 9, 2019 a tweet:
Says there are "2,000 inadmissible migrants arriving every day"
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 17, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 13, 2019 a blog post:
"BREAKING: Trump family donates $1 billion to wall fund."
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • January 15, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 10, 2019 a meme:
"Lettuce killed more Americans this year than undocumented immigrants."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2019
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on January 9, 2019 a TV interview.:
"We took a deal to the president just last February, less than a year ago -- $25 billion over 10 years in border security done the right way - and the president blew up the deal."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • January 15, 2019
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on January 10, 2019 a monologue:
"17,000 individuals with criminal records were apprehended trying to cross the border" in 2018.
Half-True
By John Kruzel • January 11, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2019 remarks in McAllen, Texas:
Says there’s "never (been) so many apprehensions ever in our history."
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 11, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2019 a roundtable at the border:
"When I say Mexico is going to pay for the wall, that's what I said. Mexico is going to pay. I didn't say they're going to write me a check for $20 billion or $10 billion."
False
By Samantha Putterman • January 10, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 31, 2018 a post on Facebook:
"Since 2001, 63,000 of us were murdered by illegal aliens."  ​
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • January 9, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on December 31, 2018 a post on Facebook:
"2,000 illegal aliens were arrested by ICE in 2017 for murders committed here in the United States!"
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • January 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2019 a televised speech:
Says Sen. Charles Schumer "repeatedly supported a physical barrier in the past along with many other Democrats. They changed their mind only after I was elected president."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • January 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2019 a televised speech:
"At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."
False
By Manuela Tobias • January 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet:
"Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 4, 2019
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on December 23, 2018 a tweet:
"The 2017/2018 budgets gave (President Donald) Trump billions for border upgrades. He’s spent ALMOST NONE of it. 6%."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 17, 2018 a Facebook post:
"Hillary on child aliens in 2014: Send them back."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • January 2, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 26, 2018 a Facebook post:
Says that "18 children died while in custody of Border Patrol" during the Obama administration.  
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • January 2, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 22, 2018 a Facebook post:
"October 2013, Obama shut down the government for 16 days to force Obamacare."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 17, 2018 a blog post:
Says Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2014 "helped put together and signed a $25 billion deal to fund a border wall" and now opposes Trump's $5 billion request for a border wall "just because he's a Republican." ​
False
By John Kruzel • December 20, 2018
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