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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 16, 2016 a radio ad in spanish
"She is the only candidate who has stood by our community and immigration reform from the beginning."  
Mostly False
By Jacqueline Tempera • April 24, 2016
Great America PAC
Great America PAC
stated on March 31, 2016 a TV ad
Says Ted Cruz "wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give amnesty to illegal immigrants."  
Half-True
April 22, 2016
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on April 12, 2016 a radio interview.
"But for immigrants, we would have a contracting population..."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • April 18, 2016
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on March 28, 2016 an interview with Fox Business
"Senate Bill 1070, simply, just mirrors federal law."
Mostly False
By Anthony Cave • April 13, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 5, 2016 a plan on his campaign website
Mexico receives "approximately $24 billion a year in remittances from Mexican nationals working in the United States. The majority of that amount comes from illegal aliens."
Half-True
By Anthony Cave • April 8, 2016
Victoria Seaman
Victoria Seaman
stated on March 24, 2016 in campaign literature distributed at a candidate forum
Says Erv Nelson voted "yes on the pro-amnesty SJR 21, a bill urging Congress to provide citizenship for those residing illegally in our country."
Mostly True
By Riley Snyder • April 5, 2016
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing
"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 19, 2016 a rally in Fountain Hills, Ariz.
The 2016 federal omnibus spending bill "funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix."
Pants on Fire!
By Anthony Cave • April 2, 2016
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on March 17, 2016 a campaign press release
Congressman Jeff Denham "has agreed all illegal immigrants should be detained, arrested and deported."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • March 28, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2016 a Democratic National Committee reception
Illegal "immigration is lower than it’s been in 40 years."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 5, 2016 a public forum
Says Barack Obama "has the legal authority to let in really however many refugees he wants, from whatever country."
Half-True
March 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami
In 2006, Bernie Sanders "voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 the Democratic debate at Miami Dade College
When Honduran children came into this country, "Secretary Clinton said send them back."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic debate in Miami
When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to "provide driver’s licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said don’t do it."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 10, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 25, 2016 remarks during the GOP debate at the University of Houston
"Spending on welfare, on prisons, and education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars" because of Arizona’s immigration laws that drove out undocumented immigrants.
Mostly False
By Anthony Cave • March 4, 2016
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2016 Radio interview
"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."
True
By Eleanor Dearman • February 27, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 the GOP primary debate in Texas
Says Donald Trump hired illegal workers "from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • February 26, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2016 comments during the CNN debate
"If it weren’t for me … (illegal immigration) wouldn’t even be a big subject."  
False
By Aaron Sharockman • February 26, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 15, 2016 an interview on Fox News
Says Marco Rubio "went on Univision, and in Spanish he promised that he would not on the first day in office rescind President Obama's illegal executive action."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 17, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 6, 2016 an ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire
"The American people will not support doing anything about people that are in this country illegally until the law is enforced first."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 7, 2016
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