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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on November 1, 2017 a tweet:
"Ending (Temporary Protected Status) and deporting legal workers would cost the United States ~$164 billion in GDP over a decade."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 13, 2017
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on November 1, 2017 a tweet:
The diversity visa lottery is "plagued by fraud."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • November 6, 2017
New York Republican State Committee
New York Republican State Committee
stated on November 1, 2017 a political mailer:
"Liberals in County Hall want our community to be a sanctuary county"
Pants on Fire!
By Dan Clark • November 3, 2017
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on November 1, 2017 a White House press briefing:
Says diversity visa immigrants are not vetted.
False
By Miriam Valverde • November 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2017 a tweet:
Says the diversity visa lottery program is "a Chuck Schumer beauty."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2017
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
By PolitiFact Staff • 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
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