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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Becoming American Initiative
Becoming American Initiative
stated on July 3, 2018 an ad:
Says Ronald Reagan said immigrants "brought with them courage and the values of family, work, and freedom. Let us pledge to each other that we can make America great again."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • July 3, 2018
Corey Stewart
Corey Stewart
stated on June 30, 2018 in a Facebook live video:
"Tim Kaine doesn’t want a border at all. He wants to get rid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and basically the border patrol as well."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • July 3, 2018
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on June 25, 2018 a speech:
"Our courts find that 80 percent of those who do file for asylum aren’t qualified for it, do not merit that relief."
False
By Miriam Valverde • July 2, 2018
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on June 28, 2018 a Fox News Debate:
Says Ron DeSantis "voted in an agricultural bill to give food stamps to illegal immigrants."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Lucia Geng, Katie Akin • June 29, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 28, 2018 a Fox News debate:
Says Adam Putnam "endorsed the Schumer-Obama Gang of Eight immigration amnesty."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • June 29, 2018
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on June 21, 2018 in a monologue:
"There isn't a system" for reuniting families separated under Trump’s zero tolerance border policy.
True
By John Kruzel • June 29, 2018
Cal Thomas
Cal Thomas
stated on June 20, 2018 in a column:
Says Hillary Clinton once "supported a border wall until she ran for president in 2016."
Half-True
By John Kruzel • June 27, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2018 a campaign speech:
"We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • June 26, 2018
Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzer
stated on June 19, 2018 in an interview:
"Most (immigrants) do show up in court."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • June 26, 2018
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on June 7, 2018 an interview with Fox News:
Florida taxpayers "pay tens of millions of dollars a year to feed and house in our prison system criminal illegal aliens."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • June 26, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 25, 2018 a blog post headline:
"Mexico’s Next President Calls for An Invasion Of The US"
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • June 25, 2018
The Gateway Pundit
The Gateway Pundit
stated on June 21, 2018 a headline:
"Migrant mother and ‘crying girl’ on Time cover never separated."
True
By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 16, 2018 a blog post:
"Obama administration kept illegal Mexican kids in detention camps as ‘experiment’"
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2018
Brad Parscale
Brad Parscale
stated on June 20, 2018 a tweet:
"Fact: Over 90,000 kids were detained under Obama. And no one cared."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 21, 2018 an interview:
Says Donald Trump's executive order "doesn't address the over 2,000 children who are already separated from their parents, and it doesn't change the fact that we would be jailing children with their families."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • June 22, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 18, 2018 a tweet:
"Bill Clinton passed a law in 1996 that separated children from adults illegally entering America."
False
By Manuela Tobias • June 21, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 19, 2018 speech at the National Federation of Independent Businesses 75th Anniversary Celebration:
"There's been a 1,700 percent increase in asylum claims over the last 10 years."
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • June 21, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2018 remarks to reporters on the White House grounds:
"You can’t (end the separation of families at the border) through an executive order."
Full Flop
By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2018
Leah Vukmir
Leah Vukmir
stated on June 19, 2018 a statement:
On separating families at the border.  
Half Flip
By Tom Kertscher • June 20, 2018
Matt Schlapp
Matt Schlapp
stated on June 15, 2018 in an interview:
The Trump administration’s policy of separating families is "the same way Barack Obama did it."
False
By John Kruzel • June 19, 2018
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