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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Keith Ellison
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 23, 2016 an interview
"We don't get any of that information" from the federal government on who refugees are, where they come from and how long they are likely to stay.
Mostly False
January 6, 2017
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on December 15, 2016 an interview with KEYE TV
"Our university campuses by federal law do not check the immigration status of their students just as our public schools don’t."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 28, 2016
Ron Castorina, Jr.
Ron Castorina, Jr.
stated on November 28, 2016 a press release
"It is more difficult to obtain a Costco membership than it is to get a NYC Municipal ID"
Pants on Fire!
By Dan Clark • December 21, 2016
Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera
stated on December 12, 2016 an interview on Fox News' Hannity
Says "tens of thousands of children" were rushed across the southwest border "because they fear the wall."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • December 15, 2016
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 1, 2016 an MRCTV post
"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • December 7, 2016
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