Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Senate Leadership Fund
stated on October 11, 2018 a campaign ad

"Washington Heidi supports sanctuary cities, where illegal immigrants can be released on our streets, like this criminal, who was let go and then sexually assaulted a child."

By Manuela Tobias • October 19, 2018

Senate Leadership Fund
stated on September 25, 2018 an attack ad

Says Jacky Rosen "voted against stopping criminals from re-entering the United States."

By Jon Greenberg • October 2, 2018

One Nation PAC
stated on August 31, 2018 a digital ad

Says Joe Donnelly "voted to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, including criminals, drunk drivers, domestic violence, and worse."

By Manuela Tobias • September 12, 2018

Gavin Newsom
stated on August 17, 2018 a TV interview

Says John Cox "parroted, parroted Trump — almost verbatim — on the children’s separation issues at the border."

By Chris Nichols • September 12, 2018

Martha McSally
stated on August 14, 2018 a campaign ad

Says "former Democrat Kelli Ward attacked President Trump's plans to crack down on illegal immigration, saying Trump was making a mistake."

By Miriam Valverde • August 16, 2018

Dean Heller
stated on June 26, 2018 a press release

Says Jacky Rosen "skipped work ... at the expense of veterans" to "attend a publicity stunt."

By Jon Greenberg • August 16, 2018

Equity Forward
stated on July 23, 2018 an ad

Says HHS Secretary Alex Azar called family separations at the border and detention of children in cages "one of the great acts of American generosity and charity" and "is now in charge."

By Miriam Valverde • August 2, 2018

Bill Nelson
stated on July 23, 2018 a Senate floor speech

Says detained immigrant parents separated from their children at the border are being charged "as much as $8 a minute to call their children."

By Miriam Valverde • July 26, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2018 a campaign speech

"We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego."

By Chris Nichols • June 26, 2018

Adam Putnam
stated on June 7, 2018 an interview with Fox News

Florida taxpayers "pay tens of millions of dollars a year to feed and house in our prison system criminal illegal aliens."

By Allison Graves • June 26, 2018

Bloggers
stated on June 16, 2018 a blog post

"Obama administration kept illegal Mexican kids in detention camps as ‘experiment’"

By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2018

Brad Parscale
stated on June 20, 2018 a tweet

"Fact: Over 90,000 kids were detained under Obama. And no one cared."

By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2018

Ted Cruz
stated on June 11, 2018 an interview aired on "Think," produced by KERA radio in Dallas

"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 18, 2018

Newsflash
stated on June 13, 2018 a blog post

"Trump’s DHS secretary confirms they are preparing to arrest sanctuary city leaders."

By Miriam Valverde • June 13, 2018

Lou Barletta
stated on June 7, 2018 an interview

"The city that I was mayor of was 50 percent Latino, and I won with 90 percent of the vote..."

By Colin Deppen • June 12, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on May 15, 2018 a speech

Says of MS-13 gang members, "We are getting them out of our country by the thousands."

By Miriam Valverde • May 15, 2018

Don Blankenship
stated on April 23, 2018 a debate

Says illegal immigration is "costing us $130 billion a year to house and feed and give benefits to people that shouldn’t be even in the country."

By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2018

Ron Johnson
stated on April 3, 2018 a radio interview

"We have laws on the books where people can walk right up to our ports of entry, say ‘I have a credible fear of persecution,’ and we bring them in. We don’t send them back."

By D.L. Davis • April 27, 2018

Greg Abbott
stated on April 9, 2018 an interview by Trey Ware of San Antonio's KTSA radio station

Says that as of March 2018 compared with 2017, "there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in the number of people who are apprehended coming across the border. And, I’ll tell you this, there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in apprehension of heroin coming across the border."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2018

Evan Jenkins
stated on April 9, 2018 a campaign ad

"In Congress, (Patrick) Morrisey wrote the health care law giving free health care to illegals."

By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2018

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