Fact Check Posts – Page 52

Rick Santorum
stated on October 31, 2015 in a speech at the Republican Party of Iowa's Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines:

"I am the only person in this field who is against amnesty. Every other person in this field wants to allow people who are here illegally to be able to stay here, in one form or another."

By Jason Noble • November 8, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

"I never said that" Marco Rubio was Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015

Sean Hannity
stated on October 19, 2015 in a segment of Fox News' "Hannity":

"The president said he’s going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country."

By Aaron Sharockman, Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015

Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 in an interview:

Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."

By Tom Kertscher • October 23, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 4, 2015 in an interview on ABC "This Week":

Among Syrian refugees, "there aren't that many women, there aren't that many children."

By Joshua Gillin • October 4, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 25, 2015 in Values Voter Summit:

When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia."

By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on September 16, 2015 in a presidential debate:

"There's never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens."

By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 in a GOP presidential debate on CNN:

Says Mexico doesn't have birthright citizenship, and Americans are the "only ones" to have it.

By Katie Sanders • September 17, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 16, 2015 in comments during the CNN debate:

"A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty."

By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2015

Jorge Ramos
stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News:

"Almost 40 percent of all (undocumented) immigrants come by plane and they overstay their visas."

By Jon Greenberg • September 8, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on August 21, 2015 in speaking to reporters in Iowa:

"It has been the law since the beginning of the country that the children of American citizens born ... abroad are American citizens by birth."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2015

Ryan Eller
stated on August 31, 2015 in a CNN interview:

"Jesus was an undocumented immigrant."

By Joshua Gillin • September 3, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 25, 2015 in a tweet:

"How do Jeb Bush and Donald Trump differ on immigration? Spoiler alert: They don't."

By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on August 21, 2015 in answering a reporter in Iowa:

"In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers – people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 28, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on August 19, 2015 in a town hall in New Hampshire:

"The federal government right now does not deport criminals."

By Amy Sherman • August 26, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2015 in a town hall in Derry, N.H.:

"Many of the great scholars say that anchor babies are not covered" by the 14th Amendment.

By Lauren Carroll • August 25, 2015

Occupy Democrats
stated on August 23, 2015 in a Facebook post:

Says Bobby Jindal’s parents "used his birthright citizenship to become Americans, making him an anchor baby."

By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2015

Corey Lewandowski
stated on August 23, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says "there’s 400,000" anchor babies born in the United States a year, which are "individuals coming to our country and having their children so their children can be U.S. citizens."

By Linda Qiu • August 23, 2015

S.E. Cupp
stated on August 23, 2015 in an interview on "State of the Union":

"There are actually only 30 countries that practice birthright citizenship."

By Will Cabaniss • August 23, 2015

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