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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 12, 2017 in a tweet:
Says "72% of refugees admitted into U.S. (2/3 -2/11) during COURT BREAKDOWN are from 7 countries: SYRIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA & YEMEN."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • February 12, 2017
Dawn Buckingham
Dawn Buckingham
stated on February 8, 2017 in a campaign email blast:
"Hundreds of illegal immigrants subject to detainers were released in the last week since the new sanctuary policy was adopted by the Travis County Sheriff's Office."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 30, 2017 in 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
Donald Trump
stated on February 2, 2017 in 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
Reince Priebus
stated on January 29, 2017 in 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
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2017 in 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
Tom McClintock
stated on January 31, 2017 in 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
Keith Ellison
stated on January 29, 2017 in 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
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 in 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
Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2017 in 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
Ted Lieu
stated on January 27, 2017 in 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
John Cornyn
stated on November 22, 2016 in 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
Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on January 30, 2017 in 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
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
Donald Trump
stated on January 29, 2017 in 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
Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 in 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
Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2017 in 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
Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 in 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
Sean Spicer
stated on January 24, 2017 in 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
Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 in 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
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