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Bloggers
stated on January 30, 2017 a blog post:

Says President Donald Trump "signs a visa-free travel policy" for Ghana and Malawi.

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 2, 2017 a Facebook post:

"Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.' "

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2017

Reince Priebus
stated on January 29, 2017 an interview:

The seven nations identified in Donald Trump's travel ban were "identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • February 7, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2017 an interview with Bill O'Reilly:

Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.

False

By Linda Qiu • February 6, 2017

Tom McClintock
stated on January 31, 2017 an interview:

Refugee "vetting was very haphazard," under the Obama Administration. "In many cases, we simply accepted the word of applicants."

Mostly False

By Chris Nichols • February 3, 2017

Keith Ellison
stated on January 29, 2017 a CBS 'Face The Nation' interview:

"About three-quarters of (Syrian refugees) are women and children. A full third of them are kids under 12 years old."

True

By Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017

Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview:

"In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2017 a tweet:

"The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu, Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017

Ted Lieu
stated on January 27, 2017 in a press release:

"The chances of being killed by a refugee committing a terrorist act is 1 in 3.6 billion."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • February 1, 2017

John Cornyn
stated on November 22, 2016 a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:

Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.

Mostly False

By Fauzeya Rahman • January 31, 2017

Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on January 30, 2017 a press release:

Says former President Barack Obama "took similar action against Cuban refugees" as President Donald Trump did in his executive order.

False

By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2017

Joe DeFelice
stated on January 25, 2017:

"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."

Mostly False

By Cassie Owens • January 31, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 29, 2017 a statement:

"My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months."

Mostly False

By Linda Qiu • January 30, 2017

Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 a CNN interview:

"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."

Half-True

By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview with CBN:

"If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible."

False

By Linda Qiu • January 29, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 remarks at Department of Homeland Security:

Says ICE and border patrol officers "unanimously endorsed me for president."

Mostly False

By Miriam Valverde • January 26, 2017

Sean Spicer
stated on January 24, 2017 the daily press briefing:

"There's one (study) that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14 percent of people who voted were noncitizens."

False

By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017

Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 a State of the State Address:

Twenty-seven percent of Californians, almost 11 million, "were born in a foreign land."

True

By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2017

Luke Messer
stated on January 5, 2017 a CNN story:

"By funding the authorization that’s already happened a decade ago (in the Secure Fence Act of 2006), we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to secure the border."

True

By Miriam Valverde • January 17, 2017

Richard Durbin
stated on January 10, 2017 Sessions' Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general:

Of Sen. Jeff Sessions, "you've objected to immigrants volunteering to serve in our armed forces, saying, 'In terms of who's going to be most likely to be a spy, somebody from Cullman, Ala., or somebody from Kenya?'"

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • January 10, 2017

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