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Latest Fact-Checks In Immigration

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George Will
George Will
stated on June 14, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
Says Jeb Bush "happens to be where a majority" of Republican voters are on giving legal status to illegal immigrants.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 1, 2015 in the National Review Forum:
"We have a legal immigration system in America that accepts 1 million people a year, legally. No other country in the world even comes close to that."
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By Amy Sherman • May 13, 2015
Doug Collins
Doug Collins
stated on March 3, 2015 in in a newspaper article:
President Obama said "22 times" he could not authorize immigration reform by executive order.  
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By Nancy Badertscher • March 6, 2015
David Jolly
David Jolly
stated on February 26, 2015 in a speech on the U.S. House floor:
A federal judge said President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration is "unconstitutional."
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By Joshua Gillin • March 5, 2015
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 1, 2015 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
On immigration, "the president said 22 times, 22 times, that he couldn't do what he eventually did."
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By Katie Sanders • March 1, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News:
"22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of" anti-deportation "measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, ‘I just changed the law.’"
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2015
Ron Hayduk
Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:
"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."
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By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 3, 2014 in a speech to business leaders:
"We are younger than our competitors, and this is entirely because of immigration."
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By Steve Contorno • December 9, 2014
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on December 2, 2014 in a committee hearing:
President Barack Obama "said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority" to act as he did on immigration.
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on November 20, 2014 in a news release.:
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
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By Louis Jacobson, Nancy Madsen • November 30, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on November 17, 2014 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show":
On immigration, what reports say President Barack Obama "plans to do is roughly on the same scale" as what President George H.W. Bush did.  
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By Jon Greenberg • November 24, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2014 in a meme on social media:
Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.
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By Nai Issa, Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on July 23, 2014 in an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal":
"By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."
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By Steve Contorno • July 28, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 8, 2014 in comments on Fox News:
"More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 in an interview on Fox & Friends:
Says the Obama administration never responded to his 2012 letter flagging the uptick in unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 18, 2014
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on April 15, 2014 in a debate over immigration issues with state Sen. Dan Patrick:
Up "to 45 percent" of illegal immigrants "are not people that physically crossed the southern border or northern border. They are visa overstayers."
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 28, 2014
Don Balfour
Don Balfour
stated on April 11, 2014 in a flier:
"When you get a commercial pilot’s license, you learn to communicate in English no matter where you are in the world."
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By Eric Stirgus • April 22, 2014
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on September 21, 2013 in a flier mailed to constituents:
"In 2010, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office found that only 6.5 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border was under full control of the Border Patrol."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • October 1, 2013
John Carter
John Carter
stated on August 31, 2013 in a news article:
About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants "came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 6, 2013
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on August 1, 2013 in an interview:
Says an illegal immigrant fraudulently claimed children who actually lived in Mexico on income tax forms to collect more than $29,000.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • August 27, 2013
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