Latest Fact-Checks In Homeland Security

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech
Says Hillary Clinton "plans to massively increase admissions (of Middle East refugees) … including a 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees coming into our country."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 13, 2016
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing
"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on December 8, 2015 a tweet
"91% of suspected terrorists who attempted to buy guns in America walked away with the weapon they wanted."
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By Joshua Gillin • December 29, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.
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By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview with George Stephanopoulos
The Charleston, S.C., shooter "should have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough."
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By Linda Qiu • December 6, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 an interview
Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."
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October 23, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."  
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By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2015
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview on "Last Week Tonight"
"Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database."
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By Katie Sanders • April 9, 2015
David Jolly
David Jolly
stated on February 26, 2015 a speech on the U.S. House floor
A federal judge said President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration is "unconstitutional."
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By Joshua Gillin • March 5, 2015
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 10, 2014 an interview on CNN
"(Obama's) entire national security team, including his secretary of state, said we want to arm and train and equip (Syrian rebel forces), and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down."  
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By Steve Contorno • September 11, 2014
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on June 15, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"Thousands of Westerners and Americans" are fighting with extremists in eastern Syria and Iraq. 
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By Steve Contorno • June 18, 2014
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on January 27, 2014 the Texas Debate hosted by KERA-TV, Channel 13, in Dallas
David Dewhurst is "the first lieutenant governor in history to have a personal security detail."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 31, 2014
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on January 13, 2014 an interview with NPR
On foreign policy, Joe Biden was against aid for Vietnam, said the fall of the Shah was "a step forward" for human rights in Iran, opposed Reagan's defense build-up and voted against the first Gulf War.
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By Steve Contorno • January 16, 2014
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald
stated on January 2, 2014 a broadcast of CNN's "The Lead"
"Under the Espionage Act, (Edward Snowden would not be) allowed to come into court and say ‘I was justified in disclosing this information.’ There is no whistleblower exception in the Espionage Act."
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By Jon Greenberg • January 7, 2014
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on December 12, 2013 a tweet
In altered photo, says Barack Obama wants "more of Texans’ private data" via health care.
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By Sue Owen • January 4, 2014
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 30, 2013 an MSNBC interview
Says about NSA data collection: "Every member in both parties who served on the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of this."
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By Becky Bowers • August 2, 2013
Gary Kelly
Gary Kelly
stated on February 1, 2013 a column
"Taxes and fees amount to about 20 percent of a typical $300 round-trip domestic ticket. That’s higher than taxes on products like alcohol, tobacco and firearms."
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March 17, 2013
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on June 26, 2012 an interview
Says President Barack Obama promised a "pathway to citizenship" to undocumented immigrants and "didn't deliver jack squat on any of it."
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July 18, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on September 30, 2011 remarks at Politics & Eggs forum in Manchester, N.H.
Every month since 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11.
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By Maryalice Gill • October 24, 2011
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on September 26, 2011 a speech on the Senate floor
"President Obama has declared disasters in 48 of 50 states this year."
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By Molly Moorhead • September 30, 2011
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