Fact Check Posts – Page 47

Kelly Terry-Willis
stated on July 18, 2016 a Republican National Convention video:

In Arizona, "there are only one and a half (Border Patrol) agents per every 10 square miles."

By Anthony Cave • August 4, 2016

Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on July 14, 2016 a news release:

"Just on the issue of immigration alone, it is next to impossible to find a policy difference between (Donald) Trump and Congressman (Joe) Heck."

By Riley Snyder • July 28, 2016

Karen Bass
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention:

Says Donald Trump promised "the mass deportation of Latino families."

By Miriam Valverde • July 28, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention:

"Illegal immigration and the crime rate are as low as they’ve been in decades."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 28, 2016

Michael Bloomberg
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic convention:

Says Donald Trump "games the U.S. visa system so he can hire temporary foreign workers at low wages."

By Amy Sherman • July 28, 2016

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

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