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Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on February 14, 2017 an open letter to Austin residents
"Local authorities in 43 states refused to honor more than 16,000 detainer requests from ICE from October 2013 to December 2015. Only in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Vermont and Wyoming did local officials honor all requests, and detainers are relatively rare in those states."
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2017
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on February 7, 2017 a Fox News interview
Of 1 million green cards issued a year, "almost none of those green cards are based on job skills or demonstrated economic needs."
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By Miriam Valverde • February 14, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 3, 2017 a CNN interview
Israel cut its illegal immigration rate by "99 percent" by constructing a 143-mile fence along its southern border.
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By Miriam Valverde • February 13, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 12, 2017 a tweet
Says "72% of refugees admitted into U.S. (2/3 -2/11) during COURT BREAKDOWN are from 7 countries: SYRIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA & YEMEN."
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By Allison Graves • February 12, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview
"In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa."
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By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2017
Ted Lieu
Ted Lieu
stated on January 27, 2017 in a press release
"The chances of being killed by a refugee committing a terrorist act is 1 in 3.6 billion."
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By Chris Nichols • February 1, 2017
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on January 10, 2017 Sessions' Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general
Of Sen. Jeff Sessions, "you've objected to immigrants volunteering to serve in our armed forces, saying, 'In terms of who's going to be most likely to be a spy, somebody from Cullman, Ala., or somebody from Kenya?'"
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By Miriam Valverde • January 10, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 1, 2016 an MRCTV post
"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."
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By Miriam Valverde • December 7, 2016
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 a WNYC interview
On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."  
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By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 an MSNBC interview
"President-elect Trump's immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting."
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By Miriam Valverde • November 18, 2016
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on September 28, 2016 a TV ad
Says Donald Trump wants to deport "our Dreamers."
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By Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
Says Donald Trump "said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation."
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By Miriam Valverde • October 20, 2016
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on September 28, 2016 a television interview
"In other states (where illegal immigrants have been allowed to get driver's licenses) their insurance premiums for everybody have gone down."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 7, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a presidential debate at Hofstra University
"These people that we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens. Ended up becoming citizens. And it was 800. And now it turns out it might be 1,800, and they don't even know."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 29, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 19, 2016
Tim Kaine
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."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Linda Qiu • September 18, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 14, 2016
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on August 29, 2016 an interview.
"Undocumented workers crossing the border right now is at a 12-year low."
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By Sean Gorman • September 6, 2016
Donald Trump
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."  
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By Allison Graves • September 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 25, 2016 remarks in Reno
"Parents and teachers are already worrying about what they call the ‘Trump Effect.’ They report that bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools, especially targeting students of color, Muslims and immigrants."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 26, 2016
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