Fact Check Posts – Page 53

Ben Carson
stated on August 23, 2015 in an interview on "State of the Union":

Says "56 percent of (the U.S.-Mexico) border is not under our control."

By Joshua Gillin • August 23, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on August 17, 2015 in a meme.:

Says Michele Bachmann said, "The Chinese built a Great Wall 5,000 years ago. You don't see any illegal Mexicans in China."

By Linda Qiu • August 20, 2015

Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 6, 2015 in a tweet:

A "majority in every state favors path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants."

By Dave Umhoefer • August 19, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2015 in a policy plan on immigration.:

"The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011."

By Linda Qiu • August 18, 2015

Tom Tancredo
stated on August 8, 2015 in a Breitbart article:

Between 2008 and 2014, "criminal aliens accounted for 38 percent of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York."

By Jon Greenberg • August 17, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on August 6, 2015 in in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:

"A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty."

By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 6, 2015 in the first Republican debate:

Illegal immigration "wasn’t a subject that was on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement."

By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:

"This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States."

By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:

"The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on July 22, 2015 in an appearance on 'Fox & Friends':

"Forty percent of people in this country, illegally, are overstaying visas."

By Joshua Gillin • July 29, 2015

Jose Diaz-Balart
stated on July 26, 2015 in a pundit panel segment on "Meet the Press":

"The majority of the Hispanic population and the growth (of the population) is U.S.-born."

By Anna Bruzgulis • July 29, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe.":

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States is "30 million, it could be 34 million."

By Amy Sherman • July 28, 2015

NumbersUSA
stated on July 22, 2015 in a Facebook meme:

"More than half of all drivers' licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens."

By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in his speech declaring his candidacy for president:

"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."

By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2015 in a speech in Las Vegas:

"If you're from Syria and you're a Christian, you cannot come into this country" as a refugee.

By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2015

Bob Goodlatte
stated on July 5, 2015 in an interview:

"The actual deportations from the interior of the country are way down" under President Obama.

By Sean Gorman • July 20, 2015

Allison Tant
stated on July 15, 2015 in a press release:

Says Carlos Lopez-Cantera "even voiced enthusiastic support for bringing an Arizona-style immigration law to Florida, calling the measure 'common sense.’"

By Amy Sherman • July 16, 2015

Hans von Spakovsky
stated on July 9, 2015 in an article on the Heritage Foundation website:

"134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years."

By Jon Greenberg • July 16, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2015 in a speech at a political rally in Phoenix:

Says Florida had five sanctuary cities while Jeb Bush was governor.

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • July 15, 2015

Joe Theismann
stated on July 9, 2015 in a discussion on "Outnumbered":

"We don’t have a (military) reserve force if something happens."

By Katie Sanders • July 14, 2015

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