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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 1, 2015 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
On immigration, "the president said 22 times, 22 times, that he couldn't do what he eventually did."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 1, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News
"22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of" anti-deportation "measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, ‘I just changed the law.’"
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2015
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on February 4, 2014 a broadcast of the "Laura Ingraham Show"
Says Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has an "immigrant family background."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2015
Urban Intellectuals
Urban Intellectuals
stated on January 15, 2015 an article posted on Urban Intellectuals
"Sheriffs Call For Obama’s Lynching While Leader Meets With GOP Senators"
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2015
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 3, 2015 a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show"
The children coming across the southern U.S. border "were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 1, 2015 an interview
On the status of illegal immigrants  
Half Flip
By Dave Umhoefer • February 4, 2015
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on January 23, 2015 an interview with reporters at her ceremonial swearing in event in Fort Lauderdale
Says Marco Rubio "was for immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship before he was against it."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 30, 2015
Ron Hayduk
Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 a newspaper commentary
"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on December 7, 2014 an interview of Greg Abbott, Texas governor-elect
"There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally," it "would create an economic recession for the state."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 9, 2015
Craig Melvin
Craig Melvin
stated on January 5, 2015 an MSNBC segment
"There have even been Republican congressmen who have said, ‘If you give us more money we don't know where we would even put additional Border Patrol agents.’ "
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 8, 2015
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on November 21, 2014 a news release.
"The President has decided to move forward with executive actions on immigration that he has said on numerous occasions that he didn’t have the constitutional power to take."
True
By Sean Gorman • December 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 4, 2014 a statement of policy from the Executive Office of the President
A bill from U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho attempts to restrict the administration's ability to conduct national security and criminal background checks on undocumented immigrants.
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • December 16, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 3, 2014 a speech to business leaders
"We are younger than our competitors, and this is entirely because of immigration."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • December 9, 2014
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on December 2, 2014 a committee hearing
President Barack Obama "said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority" to act as he did on immigration.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2014
Peter Morici
Peter Morici
stated on December 7, 2014 an op-ed in the "Statesman Journal"
Immigrants "have captured all of the nearly 9 million jobs created since 2000."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 2, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on November 20, 2014 a news release.
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Nancy Madsen • November 30, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 20, 2014 a speech
Citing his efforts to secure the border, Obama said, "Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is the lowest it has been since the 1970s."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on November 17, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show"
On immigration, what reports say President Barack Obama "plans to do is roughly on the same scale" as what President George H.W. Bush did.  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 24, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 23, 2014 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
"There are more people living in this country who were not born here than at anytime in the history of the country."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 20, 2014 a speech announcing new immigration actions
"The actions I’m taking" are "the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half-century."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2014
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