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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 9, 2010 a chain e-mail
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on May 27, 2010 commentary on his television show
"Sixty-four percent of Americans support the Arizona immigration law.''
Mostly True
By Lukas Pleva • June 3, 2010
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on May 20, 2010 an interview with the Fox News Network
Mexican government officials "hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 30, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on May 23, 2010 on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says the Arizona immigration law "expressly bans racial profiling."
Half-True
May 29, 2010
Bill McCollum
Bill McCollum
stated on May 16, 2010 interviews with Florida media.
Bill McCollum on the Arizona immigration law.
Full Flop
By Aaron Sharockman • May 27, 2010
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on May 12, 2010 an interview
"You’ve got almost twice as many cops in New York City as you do on our entire border. That’s nuts."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 21, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on April 10, 2010 a campaign commercial
"Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 6, 2010 comments to the conservative website Human Events.
On the Arizona immigration law.
Half Flip
By Aaron Sharockman • May 12, 2010
Boyd Richie
Boyd Richie
stated on April 30, 2010 a press release
Says Gov. Rick Perry failed "to involve border sheriffs in developing plans to prevent violence in their communities."
False
May 10, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on April 28, 2010 an interview on the Fox Business Network
"Up until two weeks ago, John McCain was a leading proponent of amnesty. Now with me challenging him, suddenly he has changed."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • May 5, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."
False
May 5, 2010
Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema
stated on April 30, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'
Under the Arizona immigration law, police are required to check immigration status if someone's "lawn is overgrown" or if a dog is "barking too loudly."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on April 30, 2010 a news release
Late changes to the Arizona immigration law "lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
Numbers on illegal immigrants "are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 3, 2010
Tim James
Tim James
stated on April 26, 2010 a press release
Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to "increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English."
False
April 29, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview with The Texas Tribune and Newsweek
"We've got a 1,000 National Guard troop request that's been in front of this president for over a year and no response."
Half-True
April 29, 2010
Alfredo Gutierrez
Alfredo Gutierrez
stated on April 26, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
The new Arizona immigration law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
John Huppenthal
John Huppenthal
stated on April 26, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on April 25, 2010 a panel discussion on ABC This Week
 "What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is... a federal crime."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • April 28, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East."
Mostly False
April 20, 2010
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