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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
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 7, 2017 a statement before signing Senate Bill 4 into law over a Facebook Live
Says Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes."  
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 18, 2017
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on May 12, 2017 a Fox News interview
"Some of the safest communities in the United States are along the border."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • May 17, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 28, 2017 remarks to law enforcement officers in New York
District attorneys "have advertised that they will charge a criminal alien with a lesser offense than presumably they would charge a United States citizen, so they won’t be deported."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • May 10, 2017
Sally Hernandez
Sally Hernandez
stated on April 18, 2017 an oped commentary co-authored by four other Texas sheriffs
"FBI crime statistics have found that labeled ‘sanctuary’ cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 10, 2017
Wisconsin Freedom Alliance
Wisconsin Freedom Alliance
stated on April 25, 2017 a radio ad
Wisconsin politicians get daily expense payments "even if they don’t spend a dime on meals, or lodging or travel," and "no receipts are required for them to get paid."  
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • May 3, 2017
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