Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Rob Portman
stated on October 20, 2016 an Ohio Senate debate in Cleveland

"The director of the FBI said that we cannot figure out who (Syrian refugees) are, what their intentions are, because we have no information on them, because we don’t have any contact with the Syrian government or any people on the ground to be able to determine that."

By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate

Says Hillary Clinton "wanted the wall."

October 20, 2016

Patrick Murphy
stated on October 10, 2016 a TV ad

Says Marco Rubio "opposes immigration reform. Worse, Rubio supports Donald Trump. His plan would deport 800,000 children, destroying families."

By Amy Sherman • October 17, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 vice presidential debate

Says "Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship."

By Miriam Valverde • October 7, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 the vice presidential debate in Farmville, Va.

Says Donald Trump, in his campaign announcement speech, "also said, ‘And many of them (Mexicans) are good people. You keep leaving that out of your quote."

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2016

Ami Bera
stated on August 22, 2016 an interview.

Says GOP Congressional candidate Scott Jones "wants to build a wall. He wants to round people up and deport folks."

By Chris Nichols • October 5, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 a vice presidential debate in Virginia

"When Donald Trump spoke in Phoenix, he looked the audience in the eye and he said ‘no, we're building a wall and we're deporting everybody.’ He said, quote, ‘they will all be gone. They will all be gone.’ This is one of the ones where you can go to the tape on it and see what Donald Trump has said."

By Miriam Valverde • October 5, 2016

Tom DeLay
stated on September 1, 2016 an interview on MSNBC

Says most illegal immigrants draw "welfare benefits, they’re sending their kids to school, they’re using the public services."

By Dylan Baddour • September 28, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 15, 2016 a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute

Says comprehensive immigration reform "will add $700 billion to our economy."

By Miriam Valverde • September 21, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on Meet the Press

For immigrants with visa overstays, "we make no effort to hold them accountable to that or uphold the law."

By Miriam Valverde • September 12, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech in Arizona

The Secure Communities Program and 287(g) immigration programs "were programs that worked" but were "recklessly gutted" by the Obama administration.

By Miriam Valverde • September 6, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech on immigration in Phoenix

"Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct."

By Louis Jacobson • September 2, 2016

Ruben Kihuen
stated on August 15, 2016 a press conference

"In Congress, (Cresent Hardy) voted to defund DACA."

By Riley Snyder • August 25, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2016 a TV ad

Under Hillary Clinton’s plan "illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay."

By Amy Sherman • August 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2016 a campaign speech

Says Hillary Clinton once "wanted a wall" on the Mexican border.

By Sarah Hauer • August 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 5, 2016 remarks at journalists' convention

Undocumented immigrants "pay $12 billion a year into Social Security."

By Miriam Valverde • August 10, 2016

Karen Bass
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention

Says Donald Trump promised "the mass deportation of Latino families."

By Miriam Valverde • July 28, 2016

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

Says Hillary Clinton "has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian ... refugees . . . despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2016

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

"The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015."

By Miriam Valverde • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

"Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago."

By Lauren Carroll • July 22, 2016

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