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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