Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Donald Trump
stated on July 8, 2015 an interview with NBC's Katy Tur

"The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country."

By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2015

Ann Coulter
stated on June 24, 2015 comments on Fox Business Network

Says South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley "is an immigrant."

By Anna Bruzgulis • June 24, 2015

Gary Painter
stated on May 10, 2015 as quoted in a Midland Reporter-Telegram news story

"We’re the only nation in the world that does not use the military to secure our border."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2015

Ann Coulter
stated on May 26, 2015 an interview on "America with Jorge Ramos"

"America has already taken in one-fourth of Mexico's entire population."

By Jon Greenberg • June 2, 2015

Urban Intellectuals
stated on January 15, 2015 an article posted on Urban Intellectuals

"Sheriffs Call For Obama’s Lynching While Leader Meets With GOP Senators"

By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 3, 2015 a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show"

The children coming across the southern U.S. border "were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy."

By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2015

David Dewhurst
stated on September 26, 2014 a speech in Washington, D.C.

"Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush."

By Dylan Baddour • October 19, 2014

Bill Cassidy
stated on September 19, 2014 a campaign ad

Says Mary Landrieu voted to fund benefits for illegal immigrants ahead of veterans.

By Steve Contorno • September 25, 2014

Chain email
stated on August 26, 2014 a chain email

Says Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad chartered a plane to remove 124 young illegal immigrants from his state and take them back to Honduras.

By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"

The United States is at "historic record highs" of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as "Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria."

By Lauren Carroll • August 3, 2014

Greg Abbott
stated on July 22, 2014 an interview on Fox News.

"We’ve had about 3,000 murders" in connection with lax border security.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 29, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on July 17, 2014 an interview with Glenn Beck

More than 3,000 homicides were committed by "illegal aliens" over the past six years.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 23, 2014

Phil Gingrey
stated on July 7, 2014 a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."

By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2014

Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 24, 2014 a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show"

"Obama regime planned the influx of illegal alien children at the border."

By Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends

Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2014

Laura Ingraham
stated on June 3, 2014 a speech.

U.S. Reps. Eric Cantor and Luis Gutierrez were "touring the country last year … joined at the hip, working together in a bipartisan fashion indeed for the goal of immigration reform."

By Sean Gorman • June 6, 2014

Steve Stockman
stated on January 31, 2014 a campaign email blast

John Cornyn "voted twice in 2013 to back Obama’s amnesty plan."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2014

Michele Bachmann
stated on July 14, 2013 an interview with World Net Daily

"The president … by executive order" could grant voting rights to illegal immigrants who are newly legalized under pending legislation.

By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2013

Chain email
stated on July 7, 2013 a long-running chain email

Obamacare "will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally."

By Katie Sanders • July 9, 2013

Bloggers
stated on June 25, 2013 a blog post on Breitbart

The immigration bill includes free "Obamacars," motorcycles or scooters.

By Amy Sherman • June 26, 2013

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