Migrants at the southwest border: The Northern Triangle nations
Immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras lie at the center of family separation controvsey. We offer a few facts about the countries they left behind.
What Mitch McConnell said about Supreme Court confirmations in election years
By Amy Sherman
July 2, 2018
We looked at what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said about Supreme Court nominations in election years in 2016 and 2018.
Does America face a refugee or an immigration problem?
The outcry over separating families at the border cast the country's border dilemma in a new light. Have humanitarian concerns redefined the problem? We look at the numbers behind the debate.
Dispelling myths about California’s homeless
What’s fact and fiction about California’s homeless? PolitiFact California debunks several myths, including the idea that the homeless are always ‘from somewhere else’ and ‘they want to be homeless.’
The facts behind a Texas Democrat’s viral campaign ad
Mary Jennings Hegar, a veteran, mom and Democratic candidate for the Congress in a deep red Texas district, made a splash when her campaign ad went viral. We took a closer look.
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s rally in North Dakota
President Donald Trump headed back to the campaign trail on June 27, to promote the candidacy of Rep. Kevin Cramer, the Republican challenger to North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. In his rally in Fargo, N.D., Trump made a number of statements that were inaccurate or misleading.
As Donald Trump seeks changes to immigration courts, what rights do immigrants here illegally have?
President Donald Trump has denounced the immigration court system and said immigrants arriving illegally should be deported without a court’s review. We wondered about the feasibility and legality of Trump’s vision of simply turning away people at the border, without judges reviewing their claims. Here’s what we found.
Have U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and President Donald Trump made statements that encourage violence?
By Amy Sherman
, Bill McCarthy
June 26, 2018
We examine the language by both political figures that their critics have said was incendiary
Trump doing a little better lately on the Truth-O-Meter
Ahead of his Wisconsin visit, a look at his latest fact checks.
Donald Trump’s executive order ending his administration’s separation of immigrant families
After falsely claiming that immigrant families were being separated at the border because of Democrats and arguing that he was unable to do anything about it, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep children and parents together in detention. Here’s an overview of what’s known and what’s uncertain after the executive order.
Updated: Fact tracking the 2018 candidates for U.S. senator
Website claims child immigrants kept in dog kennels, concentration camps. Here are the facts
By Amy Sherman
June 22, 2018
A headline labeled an immigrant facility as a concentration camp, but it’s not comparable to Nazi camps.