Fact Check Posts – Page 45

Tom DeLay
stated on September 1, 2016 an interview on MSNBC

Says most illegal immigrants draw "welfare benefits, they’re sending their kids to school, they’re using the public services."

By Dylan Baddour • September 28, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2016 a speech in North Carolina

Says "Hillary Clinton's plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs."

By Miriam Valverde • September 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 15, 2016 a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute

Says comprehensive immigration reform "will add $700 billion to our economy."

By Miriam Valverde • September 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech in Arizona

"Within just a few years, immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records."

By Miriam Valverde • September 19, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on September 18, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press."

Says Hillary Clinton and millennials have the same positions on climate change, abortion rights, immigration reform, gay rights and college affordability. "Donald Trump doesn't."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Linda Qiu • September 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a press conference in Mexico

Says U.S.-Mexico border has "1 million legal border crossings each and every day."

By Miriam Valverde • September 14, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on Meet the Press

For immigrants with visa overstays, "we make no effort to hold them accountable to that or uphold the law."

By Miriam Valverde • September 12, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 an immigration policy speech in Phoenix

Says Hillary Clinton has "not answered a single question" about her immigration plan.

By Anthony Cave • September 9, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2016 a speech in Philadelphia

"Our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants."

By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • September 9, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech in Arizona

The Secure Communities Program and 287(g) immigration programs "were programs that worked" but were "recklessly gutted" by the Obama administration.

By Miriam Valverde • September 6, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on August 29, 2016 an interview.

"Undocumented workers crossing the border right now is at a 12-year low."

By Sean Gorman • September 6, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

"Donald Trump’s been completely consistent" about his plan for nonviolent undocumented immigrants.

By Linda Qiu • September 4, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech

Says "Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 2, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech on immigration in Phoenix

"Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct."

By Louis Jacobson • September 2, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 a slide presented on Hannity’s show during an Austin interview of Donald Trump

Says that in 2015, "illegal" immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.

By W. Gardner Selby • September 2, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a campaign speech in Phoenix

"There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they’ve been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals."

By Allison Graves • September 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech in Phoenix, Ariz.

The number of illegal immigrants "could be 3 million. It could be 30 million."

By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • September 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech in Arizona

"Illegal immigration costs our country more than $113 billion a year."

By Miriam Valverde • September 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 23, 2016 an interview on Fox News

"They were going to build the wall a while ago, not so long ago, like in '06. And they couldn't get environmental impact statements."

By Miriam Valverde • August 29, 2016

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