Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech in Youngstown, Ohio

"We admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the Middle East every year."

By Miriam Valverde • August 19, 2016

National Border Patrol Council
stated on July 28, 2016 a statement

"Interior deportations under Obama were down 40 percent and at a nine-year low."

By Miriam Valverde • August 5, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention

"Illegal immigration and the crime rate are as low as they’ve been in decades."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 28, 2016

Michael Bloomberg
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic convention

Says Donald Trump "games the U.S. visa system so he can hire temporary foreign workers at low wages."

By Amy Sherman • July 28, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 22, 2016 an interview with Vox

"Immigrants start businesses at a faster rate; they seem to grow those businesses more successfully."

By Anthony Cave • July 27, 2016

Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 25, 2016 an interview on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"

"There are fewer people crossing (the southwest) border than in the last 30 years."

By Miriam Valverde • July 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention

"Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens."

By Miriam Valverde • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

Says Hillary Clinton "wants sanctuary cities."

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

Says "Hillary (Clinton) wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • July 21, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on July 3, 2016 an interview on CNN

"(Mexican immigrants) are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens and that is a statistic."

By Miriam Valverde • July 14, 2016

Joaquin Castro
stated on June 6, 2016 a tweet

"@realDonaldTrump is coming to San Antonio, which is 60% Mexican-AMERICAN."

By Filipa Ioannou • June 17, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech responding to the Orlando shooting

"According to Pew Research, 99 percent of the people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia law."

By Neelesh Moorthy • June 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton "plans to massively increase admissions (of Middle East refugees) … including a 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees coming into our country."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 13, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 12, 2016 a statement after a terrorist attack in Orlando

"We admit more than 100,000 lifetime migrants from the Middle East each year."

By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2016

Ken Cuccinelli
stated on May 2, 2016 a radio interview.

Half of illegal immigrants "come on legal visas and then overstay."

By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • May 16, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 3, 2016 a Clinton campaign tweet

Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.

By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016

John Carter
stated on March 10, 2016 a commentary published in the Round Rock Leader

"This is not a joke: the president wants to house illegal aliens on our nation’s military installations."

By Nicole Barrios • May 4, 2016

Bob Goodlatte
stated on April 18, 2016 a website post.

"Before taking executive action on immigration, President Obama stated 22 times that he does not have the authority to change immigration laws on his own."

By Warren Fiske • April 25, 2016

Victoria Seaman
stated on March 24, 2016 in campaign literature distributed at a candidate forum

Says Erv Nelson voted "yes on the pro-amnesty SJR 21, a bill urging Congress to provide citizenship for those residing illegally in our country."

By Riley Snyder • April 5, 2016

Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing

"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."

By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016

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