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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends
Says the Obama administration never responded to his 2012 letter flagging the uptick in unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 18, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on July 13, 2014 a "Meet the Press" pundit panel
"We are accepting more legal immigrants than we ever have in the history (of the United States.)"
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • July 16, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on July 13, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, it’s 1 in 14."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 16, 2014
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 13, 2014 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"We spend $18 billion a year on making sure that the federal government has immigrant enforcement agents. That's more than DEA and the ATF and the FBI and all the other enforcement (agencies) combined."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2014
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on July 1, 2014 a segment on 'Lou Dobbs Tonight'
The Obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration."
False
By Katie Sanders • July 15, 2014
Steve King
Steve King
stated on July 10, 2014 an interview on Fox news
Says "nothing" in Obama’s $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation "actually secures the border."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • July 14, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on July 13, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Children are crossing the border because President Barack Obama said "if you come, you’re going to be able to stay, because we’re not going to enforce the law."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 13, 2014
Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
stated on July 8, 2014 an interview on the PBS "News Hour"
When undocumented children are picked up at the border and "told to appear later in court ... 90 percent do not then show up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2014
Henry Cuellar
Henry Cuellar
stated on July 6, 2014 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
"If you're a Mexican, you get sent back. ... But if you're from a noncontiguous country like the Central American countries" then you can stay in the United States.
True
By Molly O'Connor • July 10, 2014
Raul Labrador
Raul Labrador
stated on July 6, 2014 an interview on "Meet the Press"
The Obama administration estimates the number of children at the border is "going to increase to 150,000 to 200,000 next year."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 8, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 23, 2014 a press conference at Lackland Air Force Base
Says children are coming into the U.S. in "staggering numbers" because  President Barack Obama "has been promising amnesty."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2014
David Alameel
David Alameel
stated on June 28, 2014 his speech at the state convention of the Texas Democratic Party
Says he lived in a colonia while working as a farm worker.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 2, 2014
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on June 26, 2014 an interview with KERA News
"The platform of the Republican Party says deport everybody and to hell with it."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 24, 2014 a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show"
"Obama regime planned the influx of illegal alien children at the border."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 23, 2014 a press conference
Says 95 percent of people caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border said in a survey "we are coming because we’ve been promised amnesty."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends
Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2014
Battleground Texas
Battleground Texas
stated on June 10, 2014 an interview on Bloomberg TV
Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’"
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2014
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on June 17, 2014 a tweet
Says 11 soccer players on the U.S. Men’s National Team are immigrants.
False
By Steve Contorno • June 19, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends
A record number of immigrants not from Mexico are "being apprehended at the border."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 18, 2014
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on June 15, 2014 a statement on "This Week"
Says Eric Cantor "was the co-author of the House GOP principles on immigration reform. Both the 'New York Times' and the 'Washington Post' said that that captured the essence of what was in the Senate immigration bill."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 15, 2014
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