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George Will
George Will
stated on June 14, 2015 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.
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By Jon Greenberg • June 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 1, 2015 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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."
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By Sue Owen • October 1, 2013
John Carter
John Carter
stated on August 31, 2013 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 an interview
Says an illegal immigrant fraudulently claimed children who actually lived in Mexico on income tax forms to collect more than $29,000.
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By Eric Stirgus • August 27, 2013
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