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Luke Messer
stated on January 5, 2017 in 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 in 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
stated on December 23, 2016 in 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

By Tom Kertscher • January 6, 2017

Lloyd Doggett
stated on December 15, 2016 in 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.
stated on November 28, 2016 in 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
stated on December 12, 2016 in 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
stated on December 1, 2016 in 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

Roger Williams
stated on November 16, 2016 in an interview with McClatchy's Washington bureau:

"NAFTA allows a lot of trucks from Mexico, for example, to leave there and ... drive straight through without even being inspected."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2016

Bloggers
stated on October 9, 2015 in social media posts, blogs:

Latina who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump on stage in Las Vegas in October 2015 has been deported.

Pants on Fire!

By Miriam Valverde • December 5, 2016

Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 in a WNYC interview:

On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on November 27, 2016 in a tweet:

Says he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2016

Javier M. Gonzales
stated on November 16, 2016 in an interview on The Kelly File:

"Study after study have shown that sanctuary cities do not lead to an increase in crime because of the presence of people that are undocumented."

Half-True

By Miriam Valverde • November 28, 2016

Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 21, 2016 in "The Rush Limbaugh Show":

"Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • November 22, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 in an MSNBC interview:

"President-elect Trump's immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting."

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • November 18, 2016

Bloggers
stated on November 14, 2016 in an article on InfoWars:

"Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens."

False

By Allison Graves • November 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on November 13, 2016 in a 60 Minutes interview:

Says there are "probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million" criminal immigrants in the country illegally.

Half-True

By Miriam Valverde • November 15, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on November 3, 2016 in a speech in Phoenix:

"Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country."

True

By Miriam Valverde • November 7, 2016

Morgan Carroll
stated on October 20, 2016 in a news release:

Says Mike Coffman said two different things: "stop the deportations" in a Spanish-language debate and "you're going to be deported" in an English-language TV interview.

Mostly False

By Alan Gathright • November 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2016 in a campaign rally in Springfield, Ohio:

"Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants."

Half-True

By Miriam Valverde • November 3, 2016

Ron Johnson
stated on October 10, 2016 in a radio ad:

Says Russ Feingold "voted to raise taxes on Social Security benefits for seniors, he even tried to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • November 3, 2016

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