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Karen Handel
Karen Handel
stated on July 18, 2013 a Twitter post:
"The Senate immigration bill is … filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies, Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos."
True
By Janel Davis • July 26, 2013
Michele Bachmann
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.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 30, 2013 a Wall Street Journal op-ed:
Says "Canada has one-tenth of our population—yet it issues far more high-skilled visas (more than 150,000) yearly than we do (65,000)."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 10, 2013
Chain email
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • July 9, 2013
Dan Stein
Dan Stein
stated on July 7, 2013 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
The Senate immigration bill "unleashes a massive increase in overall immigration. … We're talking about a population increase under the Senate bill of over 70 million people in 20 years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2013
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on June 29, 2013 an interview with CNN:
Says under the Senate immigration bill, newly legalized immigrants will "pay every tax possible, but you don’t get a single benefit" for 10 years.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 8, 2013
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on July 1, 2013 an op-ed article:
"Currently, it takes up to 25 years to obtain U.S. citizenship legally" but the Senate bill "would allow immigrants who came to the United States illegally to obtain citizenship in just 13 years."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 7, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 20, 2013 an interview:
Says President Obama has cracked down "on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 3, 2013
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on June 21, 2013 a roundtable section of the HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher":
If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is "going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 20, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
"President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 24, 2013 an interview with Fox News:
The Senate immigration bill "has immediate legalization ... and the border security is sometime in the future, and just like in 1986, it's designed never to come into being."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 27, 2013
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on June 27, 2013 an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation”:
The immigration bill "has a specific provision that says that Secretary Napolitano does not have to build any fence if she chooses not to."  
False
By Becky Bowers • June 27, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 25, 2013 a blog post on Breitbart:
The immigration bill includes free "Obamacars," motorcycles or scooters.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 26, 2013
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on June 5, 2013 U.S. House floor debate.:
Says the Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to "release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 21, 2013
Dana Rohrabacher
Dana Rohrabacher
stated on June 16, 2013 an interview on WND Radio:
On immigration reform, Marco Rubio "all along has been saying, 'We have to have border security first' " and then "he gets on Spanish TV, he ends up saying, 'No, no. That will never get in the way.' "
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • June 20, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 14, 2013 a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference:
"Immigrants are more fertile."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 18, 2013
Oregon Republican Party
Oregon Republican Party
stated on May 29, 2013 in a press release:
Says a group "estimates that the annual cost to Oregon taxpayers for government services to illegal aliens, after any income tax revenue from them, is $1 billion."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • June 15, 2013
Carlos Curbelo
Carlos Curbelo
stated on May 24, 2013 a Fox News interview:
In Miami-Dade County, "we spend at our school system over $20 million every year" educating recent immigrants.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2013
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on May 22, 2013 a telephone conference call with reporters.:
Says El Paso is the "safest city of our size in the nation."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 30, 2013
Steve King
Steve King
stated on May 23, 2013 a House floor speech:
"Ronald Reagan’s signature on the 1986 amnesty act" gave Barack Obama about 15 million additional Hispanic votes in 2012.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2013
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