Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."  
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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%."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate
"Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of this country, they've been deported."
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By Miriam Valverde • October 21, 2016
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