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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Jeff Denham
Jeff Denham
stated on September 5, 2017 an interview on NPR:
Says Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton "all voted for" a border wall as senators.
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 28, 2017 a blog post:
"Over $13 million worth of crops have ROTTED in California, all because no one is willing to work jobs vacated by migrants."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • July 24, 2017
Tony Fabrizio
Tony Fabrizio
stated on July 10, 2017 an interview with Politico:
Says Adam Putnam "was for amnesty."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 24, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 28, 2017 remarks to law enforcement officers in New York:
District attorneys "have advertised that they will charge a criminal alien with a lesser offense than presumably they would charge a United States citizen, so they won’t be deported."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • May 10, 2017
Sally Hernandez
Sally Hernandez
stated on April 18, 2017 an oped commentary co-authored by four other Texas sheriffs:
"FBI crime statistics have found that labeled ‘sanctuary’ cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 10, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's This Week:
Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."  
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2017 a tweet:
The Ninth Circuit has an overturned record "close to 80%."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Miriam Valverde • April 26, 2017
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on April 23, 2017 a segment on "Fox News Sunday":
"They voted for (a border wall) in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • April 23, 2017
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on March 30, 2017 a press release:
"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their (gross domestic product) in the form of remittances."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 11, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2017 weekly address:
"Last month, we saw a 64 percent reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 10, 2017
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on February 13, 2017 a tweet:
Recent immigration raids "are not business as usual. The raids are being done indiscriminately. They’re not focused simply on criminal aliens."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2017
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on January 29, 2017 an interview:
The seven nations identified in Donald Trump's travel ban were "identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 7, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2017 a tweet:
"The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu, Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017
Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 a CNN interview:
"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2017
Javier M. Gonzales
Javier M. Gonzales
stated on November 16, 2016 an interview on The Kelly File:
"Study after study have shown that sanctuary cities do not lead to an increase in crime because of the presence of people that are undocumented."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 28, 2016
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 21, 2016 "The Rush Limbaugh Show":
"Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 22, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 13, 2016 a 60 Minutes interview:
Says there are "probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million" criminal immigrants in the country illegally.
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 15, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2016 a campaign rally in Springfield, Ohio:
"Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 3, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 26, 2016 a rally in Tampa, Fla.:
"One-half of undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, which means they are paying more federal income taxes than Donald Trump pays."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 23, 2016 a tweet from her campaign:
"Donald Trump says he'd deport 16 million people."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2016
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