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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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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
Joe Arpaio
Joe Arpaio
stated on August 25, 2017 a tweet:
Says his conviction is "a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 29, 2017
Illinois Family Institute
Illinois Family Institute
stated on August 19, 2017 a blog post:
Public schools, colleges and state-funded day care centers "will be made into sanctuaries by Bruce Rauner signing SB 31."
False
By Matt Dietrich • August 28, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on August 7, 2017 a press release:
Chicago city officials "have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents."
False
By Matt Dietrich • August 16, 2017
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on August 8, 2017 a USA Today op-ed:
"Half of all immigrant households receive benefits from our social welfare system."  
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • August 14, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on July 31, 2017 an interview on MSNBC:
"Undocumented immigrants commit less crimes than the native born."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • August 3, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 28, 2017 a speech:
"The border is down 78 percent. Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down -- it went up."
False
By Miriam Valverde • August 3, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 28, 2017 a blog post:
"Over $13 million worth of crops have ROTTED in California, all because no one is willing to work jobs vacated by migrants."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • July 24, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech:
"According to a recent study from the University of California Riverside, (sanctuary) cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that don’t."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • July 24, 2017
Tony Fabrizio
Tony Fabrizio
stated on July 10, 2017 an interview with Politico:
Says Adam Putnam "was for amnesty."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 24, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on July 22, 2017 Fox News interview:
Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 23, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2017 an immigration roundtable discussion:
"We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.
False
By Miriam Valverde • June 30, 2017
Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt
stated on June 20, 2017 the "Fox and Friends" show:
"5.7 million -- that’s how many illegal immigrants might have voted" in 2008.
False
By Amy Sherman • June 22, 2017
Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton
stated on June 16, 2017 a press release:
Says Barack Obama "acknowledged over 20 times" that his administration’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans "immigration edict was a violation of law and the separation of powers."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 21, 2017
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 8, 2017 in a tweet:
The Trump administration has granted amnesty to "nearly 100,000 'Dreamers' "
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2017
John Kelly
John Kelly
stated on May 28, 2017 a Fox News interview:
"Many of the countries in question (in Trump’s travel ban) don't even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet."
True
By Miriam Valverde • May 31, 2017
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