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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on October 12, 2017 a speech
In the U.S. asylum system, "claims of 'fear to return' have skyrocketed, and the percentage of claims that are genuinely meritorious are down."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 19, 2017
Casey Cagle
Casey Cagle
stated on October 9, 2017 a WSB-TV interview
A Homeland Security study "showed 120 murders took place that could have been prevented had communities been working with ICE and Homeland Security."
False
By Miriam Valverde • October 12, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 8, 2017 a document
"Loopholes in current law prevent ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’ (UACs) that arrive in the country illegally from being removed."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • October 11, 2017
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on September 17, 2017 an NBC interview
"If you pass the so-called Dream Act, it will be the single biggest amnesty in the history of the United States, even bigger than the 1986 amnesty."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • September 26, 2017
Roy Moore
Roy Moore
stated on September 21, 2017 a debate
DACA was "a mere memo from the Department of Homeland security under Barack Obama, which violated the laws."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin, Miriam Valverde • September 22, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on September 18, 2017 a speech at Sacramento State University
"Seventy-six percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act … with citizenship and legalization as part of it all. … More than 60 percent of Republicans support that."
True
By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 14, 2017 remarks to reporters
Says "92 percent of the people agree on DACA."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • September 18, 2017
Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Leadership Fund
stated on September 14, 2017 an attack ad
Says Roy Moore is "on the wrong side of Trump’s border wall."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 18, 2017
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on August 30, 2017 a tweet
San Francisco and Takoma Park, Md., are "allowing illegals to vote."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • September 15, 2017
Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton
stated on September 5, 2017 a press release
"President Obama used" his DACA order "to unilaterally confer U.S. citizenship."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • September 15, 2017
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on September 7, 2017 an interview on MSNBC
"So the number on DACA is 800,000, but every one person can bring in their entire extended family once they reach a certain status. So it's 3 or 4 million, right?"  
False
By Miriam Valverde • September 15, 2017
Eric Schneiderman
Eric Schneiderman
stated on September 6, 2017 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show
"No court has held (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) unconstitutional."  
True
By Miriam Valverde • September 11, 2017
Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
stated on September 5, 2017 a tweet
Rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program "will harm our economy."
True
September 10, 2017
Al Franken
Al Franken
stated on September 5, 2017 an interview
"President (Ronald) Reagan did a similar thing. George H.W. Bush did a similar order" as former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • September 8, 2017
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on September 3, 2017 a CNN interview
"We have over a million (legal immigrants) a year, more than at any time in the history of this country. We have the largest percentage of immigrants, almost tied now with the historical high as a percentage of immigrants living in this country."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • September 6, 2017
Jeff Denham
Jeff Denham
stated on September 5, 2017 an interview on NPR
Says Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton "all voted for" a border wall as senators.
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on September 5, 2017 remarks at the Justice Department
Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on August 28, 2017 a bill signing event
"My grandparents were proud immigrants to the United States of America, here to Illinois in the late 1800s. My grandparents did not speak English when they were young."
Pants on Fire!
By Bob Secter, Matt Dietrich • September 5, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 28, 2017 a press conference
"We stopped traffic coming through -- 78 percent."
False
By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2017
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on August 18, 2017 a newsletter
"As of 2014, illegal aliens made up roughly 3.5 percent of our population, and committed over 10 percent of all murders."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • August 30, 2017
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