Latest Fact Checks By Miriam Valverde

Interior deportations down, at a 9-year low, border group says

By Miriam Valverde

August 5, 2016

"Interior deportations under Obama were down 40 percent and at a nine-year low."

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Joaquin Castro says Donald Trump defended World War II internment camps

By Miriam Valverde

July 29, 2016

Says "Donald Trump has defended" World War II internment camps.

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Did Donald Trump promise mass deportation of ‘Latino families’?

By Miriam Valverde

July 28, 2016

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

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Bill Clinton exaggerates how many people moved out of poverty under his administration

By Miriam Valverde

July 28, 2016

"We moved 100 times as many people out of poverty as moved out when President (Ronald) Reagan was in office, with 40 percent more jobs."

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Rep. Gutierrez says fewer people crossing border than in last 30 years

By Miriam Valverde

July 26, 2016

"There are fewer people crossing (the southwest) border than in the last 30 years."

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Trump: Nearly ‘180,000 illegal immigrants’ have criminal records but haven’t been deported

By Miriam Valverde

July 22, 2016

"Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens."

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Trump says number of illegal immigrant families crossing border this year exceeds 2015 total

By Miriam Valverde

July 22, 2016

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

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Newt Gingrich says Hillary Clinton wants to increase number of Syrian refugees by 500 percent

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. , Miriam Valverde

July 21, 2016

Says "Hillary (Clinton) wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent."

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Sen. Jeff Sessions wrongly says 350,000 people succeed in crossing the border every year

By Miriam Valverde

July 19, 2016

"There are about 350,000 people who succeed in crossing our borders illegally each year."

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Libertarian candidate says Mexican immigrants more law-abiding than U.S. citizens

By Miriam Valverde

July 14, 2016

"(Mexican immigrants) are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens and that is a statistic."

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