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Mike Rogers
stated on March 30, 2017 a press release

"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their (gross domestic product) in the form of remittances."

By Miriam Valverde • April 11, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2017 weekly address

"Last month, we saw a 64 percent reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border."

By Miriam Valverde • April 10, 2017

Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 24, 2017 a speech at CPAC

"According to the FBI, Mexican drug cartels are working with 100,000 street gang members in Chicago alone."

By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017

Robert Menendez
stated on February 13, 2017 a tweet

Recent immigration raids "are not business as usual. The raids are being done indiscriminately. They’re not focused simply on criminal aliens."

By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2017 a tweet

"The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia."

By Linda Qiu, Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017

Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 a CNN interview

"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."

By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2017

Javier M. Gonzales
stated on November 16, 2016 an interview on The Kelly File

"Study after study have shown that sanctuary cities do not lead to an increase in crime because of the presence of people that are undocumented."

By Miriam Valverde • November 28, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on November 13, 2016 a 60 Minutes interview

Says there are "probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million" criminal immigrants in the country illegally.

By Miriam Valverde • November 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 a presidential debate

"ISIS is in 32 countries."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate

Russia has "tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads — 1,800, by the way — where they expanded, and we didn't."

By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate

Says Hillary Clinton "wanted the wall."

October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate

"You (Hillary Clinton) get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails."

By Lauren Carroll • October 10, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 vice presidential debate

Says "Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship."

By Miriam Valverde • October 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate

Says Donald Trump "publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans’ (emails)."

By Amy Sherman • September 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech on immigration in Phoenix

"Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct."

By Louis Jacobson • September 2, 2016

Richard Burr
stated on August 3, 2016 a press release

Says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are "responsible for leading America into a deal that will arm Iran."

By Will Doran • August 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

Says Hillary Clinton "has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian ... refugees . . . despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2016

Don Beyer
stated on July 14, 2015 an op-ed

"Thanks to the Obama administration’s negotiations, Iran’s nuclear program will be under lock, key and camera 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."

By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2015

Mark Pocan
stated on May 20, 2015 a radio interview

"Twenty-five percent of people in the country have said they changed their email and phone habits because of" the collection of data allowed by the Patriot Act.

By Sarah Hauer • June 15, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on May 10, 2015 a USA Today op-ed

"There is not a single documented case of abuse" of the bulk metadata collection program.

By Kirby Wilson • June 4, 2015

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