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Priorities USA Action
stated on September 28, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Donald Trump wants to deport "our Dreamers."

By Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 30, 2016 in a campaign rally in Albuquerque:

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That’s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week."

By Miriam Valverde • October 31, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 26, 2016 in a rally in Tampa, Fla.:

"One-half of undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, which means they are paying more federal income taxes than Donald Trump pays."

By Lauren Carroll • October 27, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on September 6, 2016 in a radio ad:

Says Ron Johnson "has essentially done nothing" to fight heroin addiction and opioid abuse.

By Tom Kertscher • October 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 23, 2016 in a tweet from her campaign:

"Donald Trump says he'd deport 16 million people."

By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third presidential debate:

"Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of this country, they've been deported."

By Miriam Valverde • October 21, 2016

Rob Portman
stated on October 20, 2016 in an Ohio Senate debate in Cleveland:

"The director of the FBI said that we cannot figure out who (Syrian refugees) are, what their intentions are, because we have no information on them, because we don’t have any contact with the Syrian government or any people on the ground to be able to determine that."

By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third 2016 presidential debate:

Says Donald Trump "said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation."

By Miriam Valverde • October 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 20, 2016 in in a debate:

Says Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower."

By Linda Qiu, Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third 2016 presidential debate:

Says Hillary Clinton "wanted the wall."

By Tom Kertscher • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third 2016 presidential debate:

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to have open borders."

By Amy Sherman • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 17, 2016 in a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin:

"It’s possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina."

By Will Doran • October 19, 2016

Patrick Murphy
stated on October 10, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Marco Rubio "opposes immigration reform. Worse, Rubio supports Donald Trump. His plan would deport 800,000 children, destroying families."

By Amy Sherman • October 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second presidential debate:

"We've had Muslims in America since George Washington."

By Miriam Valverde • October 13, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 in a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees:

"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."

By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2016 in a rally in Ambridge, Pa.:

Says "I’ve been proven right" about "Hillary Clinton's radical call for open borders, meaning anyone in the world can enter the United States without any limit at all."

By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • October 12, 2016

Pat McCrory
stated on October 11, 2016 in a North Carolina governor's race debate:

Says Syrian refugees are not being vetted, and "the FBI is not even being told where they are."

By Will Doran • October 12, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second presidential debate:

"ICE just endorsed me."

By Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016

Pete Gallego
stated on October 4, 2016 in a TV ad pointed out to PolitiFact Texas:

Says Will Hurd said a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall "absolutely makes sense."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 7, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 in the 2016 vice presidential debate:

Says "Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship."

By Miriam Valverde • October 7, 2016

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