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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Scott Peters
Scott Peters
stated on April 24, 2017 a news article
The estimated price of President Trump’s border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers."
True
By Chris Nichols • April 28, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's This Week
Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."  
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2017 a tweet
The Ninth Circuit has an overturned record "close to 80%."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Miriam Valverde • April 26, 2017
Ron Kind
Ron Kind
stated on February 16, 2017 a radio interview
"We're experiencing a net outflow of illegal, undocumented workers from America back to Mexico."  
True
By Eric Litke • April 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2017 an interview with the Associated Press
Illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border is "the lowest in 17 years."
True
By Miriam Valverde • April 25, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on January 31, 2017 a Senate hearing for Rex Tillerson’s nomination for U.S. Secretary of State
"Nobody applies to the United States for refugee status. They apply to the United Nations."
False
By Aleissa Bleyl • April 24, 2017
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on April 23, 2017 a segment on "Fox News Sunday"
"They voted for (a border wall) in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • April 23, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 a tweet
"The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!"
False
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • April 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 17, 2017 a tweet
Says Jon Ossoff wants to "allow illegal immigration."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • April 17, 2017
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on March 30, 2017 a press release
"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their (gross domestic product) in the form of remittances."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 11, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2017 weekly address
"Last month, we saw a 64 percent reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 10, 2017
Brian Sims
Brian Sims
stated on March 31, 2017 In a fundraising message
"Finally, I will continue to fight against Republicans like Martina White, who like Trump, wants to deport all of our hard working immigrant brothers and sisters and white wash America."
Pants on Fire!
By Mark Dent • April 5, 2017
John Conyers, Jr.
John Conyers, Jr.
stated on March 28, 2017 a subcommittee hearing
"Apprehension rates at the southern border have plummeted since the 1980s, and apprehensions of Mexicans specifically have reached their lowest point in nearly half a century."  
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • April 3, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on March 27, 2017 a press briefing
"Just last May, the Department of Justice inspector general found that these (‘sanctuary city’) policies also violate federal law."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 30, 2017
Carlos Guillermo Smith
Carlos Guillermo Smith
stated on March 21, 2017 a vote on HB 697
Says if a Florida bill (HB 697) punishing sanctuary cities becomes law "it will be the only law of its kind in the nation."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • March 30, 2017
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Florida Immigrant Coalition
stated on March 27, 2017 a Florida House subcommittee hearing
"As an undocumented immigrant, you do have constitutional rights here in the United States."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 29, 2017
Jim Kenney
Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2017 a tweet
"Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."
False
By Cassie Owens • March 28, 2017
Brendan Reilly
Brendan Reilly
stated on February 24, 2017 on Twitter
Said Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump have both described deportations as "a military operation."     
Mostly False
By Marc Filippino • March 23, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 a rally in Kentucky
"Since the day of my election, we've already cut illegal immigration at the southern border by 61 percent."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 22, 2017
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
stated on March 8, 2017 a House Judiciary Committee hearing
Wealthy foreigners can obtain visas through a special program, but only a small number "invest in true high-unemployment areas. Almost every other EB-5 project uses gerrymandering to qualify as distressed."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 21, 2017
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