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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Deirdre Imus
Deirdre Imus
stated on July 24, 2014 in a broadcast on Fox Business of "Imus in the Morning":
Under President Ronald Reagan, illegal immigrants "were not pouring in like" they are now.
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 17, 2014 in an interview with Glenn Beck:
More than 3,000 homicides were committed by "illegal aliens" over the past six years.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • July 23, 2014
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on July 21, 2014 in a broadcast of "Lou Dobbs Tonight":
Obama’s 2012 policy on younger immigrants "created these children coming across" the border.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2014
Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan
stated on July 17, 2014 in comments on Fox News:
"Right now, one third of all illegal aliens are going to California."  
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 23, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on June 13, 2014 in interviews:
On immigration reform
No Flip
By Nancy Madsen • July 21, 2014
Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on July 7, 2014 in a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 8, 2014 in comments on Fox News:
"More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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