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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Donald Trump
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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • August 19, 2016
National Border Patrol Council
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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • August 5, 2016
Barack Obama
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."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 28, 2016
Michael Bloomberg
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."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton
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."  
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • July 27, 2016
Luis Gutierrez
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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • July 26, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • July 22, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention:
Says Hillary Clinton "wants sanctuary cities."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2016
Newt Gingrich
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."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • July 21, 2016
Gary Johnson
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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • July 14, 2016
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on June 6, 2016 a tweet:
"@realDonaldTrump is coming to San Antonio, which is 60% Mexican-AMERICAN."
Mostly True
By Filipa Ioannou • June 17, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly True
By Neelesh Moorthy • June 16, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 13, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2016
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on May 2, 2016 a radio interview.:
Half of illegal immigrants "come on legal visas and then overstay."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • May 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton
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.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016
John Carter
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."
Mostly True
By Nicole Barrios • May 4, 2016
Bob Goodlatte
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."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • April 25, 2016
Victoria Seaman
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."
Mostly True
By Riley Snyder • April 5, 2016
Ron DeSantis
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."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016
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