Fact Check Posts – Page 47

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 22, 2016 an interview with Vox

"Immigrants start businesses at a faster rate; they seem to grow those businesses more successfully."

By Anthony Cave • July 27, 2016

Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 25, 2016 an interview on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"

"There are fewer people crossing (the southwest) border than in the last 30 years."

By Miriam Valverde • July 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention

"Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens."

By Miriam Valverde • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

Says Hillary Clinton "wants sanctuary cities."

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

Says Hillary Clinton "has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian ... refugees . . . despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 In a speech at the Republican convention

"The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015."

By Miriam Valverde • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

"Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago."

By Lauren Carroll • July 22, 2016

Luis Gutierrez
stated on May 12, 2016 in a speech

"Every single strawberry that is served to Members of Congress will have passed through the rough hands of an undocumented immigrant."

By Taylor Leighton • July 22, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

Says "Hillary (Clinton) wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • July 21, 2016

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention

"There are about 350,000 people who succeed in crossing our borders illegally each year."

By Miriam Valverde • July 19, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention”

"Hillary Clinton is for open borders."

By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on July 3, 2016 an interview on CNN

"(Mexican immigrants) are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens and that is a statistic."

By Miriam Valverde • July 14, 2016

Bill Mitchell
stated on April 20, 2016 a speech

"Over the last six years, the state of Illinois spent about $320 million on illegal immigrants."

By Joseph Cariz • July 14, 2016

Bill de Blasio
stated on June 23, 2016 a press conference at New York City Hall.

Says "220,000 New Yorkers would have immediately benefitted had President Obama’s executive action been affirmed. So almost a quarter million of our fellow New Yorkers who are hurting right now whose rights and opportunities were taken away by the Supreme Court."

By Dan Clark • July 13, 2016

Pat Toomey
stated on June 27, 2016 a statement

"Sanctuary cities such as Philadelphia refuse to cooperate with the federal government in locating suspected terrorists who are in their custody and are in the country illegally."

By Anna Orso • July 8, 2016

Carlos Beruff
stated on July 5, 2016 a statement to press

"Rather than work to secure the border, (Marco Rubio) supported Obama’s amnesty plan for illegal immigrants."

By Amy Sherman • July 8, 2016

David Miliband
stated on June 26, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

"The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren’t contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits."

By Jon Greenberg • June 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton’s immigration platform would "create totally open borders."

By Amy Sherman • June 23, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 a speech in New York attacking Hillary Clinton

"For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."

By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2016 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity

Even among "second and third generation" Muslims in the United States, "there's no real assimilation."

By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2016

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