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Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2018 an audio ad distributed to news organizations:

Says Beto O’Rourke wants "open borders and wants to take our guns."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 15, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2018 California just sued to stop the wall:

"The state of California is begging us to build walls in certain areas. They don’t tell you that."

Pants on Fire!

By Chris Nichols • March 13, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on March 7, 2018 a speech in Sacramento:

"California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for."

Mostly False

By Chris Nichols • March 7, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 5, 2018 a tweet:

"Democrats are nowhere to be found on DACA."

False

By Miriam Valverde • March 7, 2018

Mike Pence
stated on February 17, 2018 a speech in Dallas:

Says that "along the southern border of the U.S.," the government apprehends "seven individuals a day who are either known or suspected terrorists."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2018

Jim Renacci
stated on January 24, 2018 an interview on Fox Business Network:

In 2005 or 2006 U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer "voted for the wall."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2018

Tucker Carlson
stated on February 8, 2018 a tweet:

"There are more immigrants in our country right now than any other time."

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • February 13, 2018

Travis Allen
stated on February 1, 2018 an interview on Capital Public Radio:

"Californians are overwhelmingly against this concept of the illegal sanctuary state."

False

By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 State of the Union address:

Many gang members have taken advantage of "glaring loopholes and our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors."

Half-True

By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 2018

Ann Coulter
stated on January 30, 2018 a tweet:

"100% of heroin/fentanyl epidemic is because we don't have a WALL."

Pants on Fire!

By Paul Specht • February 2, 2018

Richard Corcoran
stated on January 29, 2018 an ad:

"Incredibly, some Tallahassee politicians want to make Florida a sanctuary state."

Half-True

By Allison Graves • February 2, 2018

Ron Johnson
stated on January 12, 2018 an interview:

About 1.1 million people legally enter the U.S. each year as permanent residents -- "65 percent of that is some kind of chain migration; 22 percent is diversity lottery, ‘asyling,’ refugees; only about 14, 15 percent has anything to do with work."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • February 2, 2018

CSC Mediagroup.USA
stated on January 30, 2018 a headline:

Democrats "booed families of children murdered by MS13."

Pants on Fire!

By Amy Sherman • February 1, 2018

USA Trainnews
stated on January 30, 2018 a headline:

"Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest illegal immigrants attending State of the Union."

True

By Amy Sherman • February 1, 2018

Breitbart
stated on January 30, 2018 a headline:

"Fall River, Massachusetts was not 'built by immigrants.' "

False

By Amy Sherman • February 1, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 31, 2018 State of the Union address:

"A single immigrant can bring in unlimited numbers of distant relatives."

Mostly False

By Miriam Valverde • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 State of the Union address:

The immigration visa lottery "randomly hands out green cards without any regard for skill, merit, or the safety of American people."

False

By Miriam Valverde • January 31, 2018

Steve Cortes
stated on January 23, 2018 in an interview:

"We have right now, … in the state of California, 55 percent of all immigrants are on public assistance."

Half-True

By Manuela Tobias • January 29, 2018

Ronald Brownstein
stated on January 23, 2018 a CNN interview:

"They found 60 votes in the Senate in 2006 and 2013" for immigration legislation, and "each time the House Republican majority refused to take it up."

True

By Miriam Valverde • January 26, 2018

Dan Patrick
stated on January 4, 2018 a Facebook post:

Says "566,000 crimes" were "made in Texas by criminal aliens in the last 6 years."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • January 25, 2018

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