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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2016 in an interview with NBC News:
Germany "is crime-riddled right now" because of migration to Europe.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 8, 2016 in an interview on 'Meet the Press':
"You have to be a citizen to vote," but with same-day voter registration, "you have places where people just walk in and vote."
False
By Lauren Carroll • May 8, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 2, 2016 in a TV ad:
Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • May 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 3, 2016 in a Clinton campaign tweet:
Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016
John Carter
John Carter
stated on March 10, 2016 in a commentary published in the Round Rock Leader:
"This is not a joke: the president wants to house illegal aliens on our nation’s military installations."
Mostly True
By Nicole Barrios • May 4, 2016
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on March 8, 2016 in Hillary Clinton campaign news release:
"Bernie Sanders voted with Republicans to protect the Minutemen, a hate group that used military tactics against our community."
Half-True
By Filipa Ioannou • April 30, 2016
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on April 18, 2016 in a website post.:
"Before taking executive action on immigration, President Obama stated 22 times that he does not have the authority to change immigration laws on his own."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • April 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 16, 2016 in 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 in a TV ad:
Says Ted Cruz "wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give amnesty to illegal immigrants."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2016
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on April 12, 2016 in 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 in 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 in 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 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a public forum:
Says Barack Obama "has the legal authority to let in really however many refugees he wants, from whatever country."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 9, 2016 in 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 in 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
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