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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Australia Closing Borders in a few hours for 6-months”
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By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 15, 2020 a Democratic presidential primary debate:
Says a 2007 immigration bill “was opposed by (the League of United Latin American Citizens), the largest Latino organization in America. The Southern Poverty Law Center called its guest-worker programs akin to slavery. … And you know who voted with me on that one, Joe? Barack Obama.”
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By Miriam Valverde • March 17, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 14, 2020 an interview with Jorge Ramos:
“You had the last two administrations deport twice as many people as we deported — twice as many.”
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By Miriam Valverde • March 13, 2020
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on March 5, 2020 a mass email:
On key issues including taxes, health care, the Green New Deal, abortion, and guns, there is “no daylight between” Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
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By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2020
Breitbart
Breitbart
stated on February 12, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Amy Klobuchar vows to resettle 500 percent more refugees, none in her neighborhood.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2020
Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
stated on January 10, 2020 an email newsletter:
Says Democratic opponents Cal Cunningham and Erica Smith support sanctuary policies.
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By Paul Specht • January 22, 2020
Ryan Fournier
Ryan Fournier
stated on October 20, 2019 a tweet:
"Starting January 1, 2020, California will tax legal citizens if they don’t have health insurance. Why? The state needs to come up with $98,000,000 to pay for free health insurance for illegal aliens."
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By Miriam Valverde • October 30, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 12, 2019 a tweet:
 "The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 18, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 28, 2019 a tweet:
Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2019
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on August 22, 2019 a panel discussion:
A federal pilot program to DNA test illegal immigrants showed "something like 30% (of test subjects) are fake families."
Half-True
By John Kruzel • August 26, 2019
Rob Schmitt
Rob Schmitt
stated on August 14, 2019 a "Fox & Friends First" discussion:
Says the Trump administration’s new policy for legal immigrants on welfare "has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the president is trying to implement here, that the United States has been this way."
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By Bill McCarthy • August 15, 2019
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on July 11, 2019 a speech:
Says President Trump "has ended up attracting larger numbers of people coming to the United States presenting themselves for asylum status at our border than we’ve ever seen."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 28, 2019
Donna Shalala
Donna Shalala
stated on July 21, 2019 an interview on CBSMiami with Jim DeFede:
Says children at Homestead migrant facility "get 30 minutes over a month to talk to family members. If they were in a prison — a federal prison — they would get 300 minutes."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2019
Weston Pagano
Weston Pagano
stated on June 24, 2019 an essay on Medium:
Says Joe Biden "voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants multiple times."
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By Amy Sherman • July 12, 2019
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on July 7, 2019 a Fox News Sunday interview:
"Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years."
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By Miriam Valverde • July 11, 2019
Michael Burgess
Michael Burgess
stated on June 24, 2019 an MSNBC interview:
Of shelters for immigrant children: "You know what? There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don't. You know why? Because they are well taken care of."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • July 10, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 27, 2019 a Democratic presidential debate:
Says "I disagreed" with President Obama’s Secure Communities deportation program
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • June 28, 2019
America First
America First
stated on March 1, 2019 a tweet:
Says Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "have both said they would tear down the wall if elected president."
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By Miriam Valverde • March 7, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 20, 2019 a tweet:
"We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 — 47 days ahead of schedule!"
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By Miriam Valverde • February 25, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a CNN town hall:
"Comprehensive immigration reform, the bill we had back in 2013 ... brought the debt down $158 billion."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2019
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