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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 20, 2016 in a debate
Says Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower."
True
By Linda Qiu, Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
Says Hillary Clinton "wanted the wall."
Half-True
October 20, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to have open borders."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 20, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 17, 2016 a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin
"It’s possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina."
Pants on Fire!
By Will Doran • October 19, 2016
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on October 10, 2016 a TV ad
Says Marco Rubio "opposes immigration reform. Worse, Rubio supports Donald Trump. His plan would deport 800,000 children, destroying families."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second presidential debate
"We've had Muslims in America since George Washington."
True
By Miriam Valverde • October 13, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."  
True
By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2016 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."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • October 12, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on October 11, 2016 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."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • October 12, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 the second presidential debate
"ICE just endorsed me."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on October 4, 2016 a TV ad pointed out to PolitiFact Texas
Says Will Hurd said a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall "absolutely makes sense."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 7, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 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."  
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 7, 2016
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on September 28, 2016 a television interview
"In other states (where illegal immigrants have been allowed to get driver's licenses) their insurance premiums for everybody have gone down."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 7, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 the vice presidential debate in Farmville, Va.
Says Donald Trump, in his campaign announcement speech, "also said, ‘And many of them (Mexicans) are good people. You keep leaving that out of your quote."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2016
Ami Bera
Ami Bera
stated on August 22, 2016 an interview.
Says GOP Congressional candidate Scott Jones "wants to build a wall. He wants to round people up and deport folks."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • October 5, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 a vice presidential debate in Virginia
"When Donald Trump spoke in Phoenix, he looked the audience in the eye and he said ‘no, we're building a wall and we're deporting everybody.’ He said, quote, ‘they will all be gone. They will all be gone.’ This is one of the ones where you can go to the tape on it and see what Donald Trump has said."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 5, 2016
María Teresa Kumar
María Teresa Kumar
stated on October 2, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year." 
True
By Linda Qiu • October 2, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on September 27, 2016 a Facebook post
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to bring in thousands of refugees to America from all around the world without any kind of security screening."
False
By Joshua Gillin • September 29, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a presidential debate at Hofstra University
"These people that we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens. Ended up becoming citizens. And it was 800. And now it turns out it might be 1,800, and they don't even know."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • September 29, 2016
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