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Immigration fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about immigration. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

1,620 published reviews in this topic

FactCheck.orgImmigration

“The border wall — the money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get to them to reappropriate it, to redirect that money. They didn’t. ... I can’t stop that.”

Publisher’s rating: True

FactCheck.orgImmigration

“Only 15%" of migrants apprehended when crossing the southern border qualify for asylum status and "only about half of them even show up for their court cases."

Publisher’s rating: Disputed

FactCheck.orgImmigration

Barron Trump "was not born to an American mother.. Doesn’t that go against" Donald Trump's immigration laws?

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

The Trump administration “built nearly 500 miles of border wall.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactImmigration

Ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento: ¿Podría Ron DeSantis acabar con ella? Y si es así, ¿cómo?

Publisher’s rating: Propuesta electoral

PolitiFactImmigration

Says Sen. Lindsey Graham said a newly elected Donald Trump “will round up and deport LEGAL immigrants.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

"As of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half."

Publisher’s rating: True

FactCheck.orgImmigration

Viral posts suggest that President Trump's three eldest children are only citizens because of "birthright citizenship."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

“Joe Biden flew hundreds of thousands of illegals into Florida last year.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

"Haitianos afirman haber llegado a EEUU hace solo 6 meses y ya tienen documentos de legalidad que les permite votar en Georgia".

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactImmigration

“Over 130 legislators in this chamber have endorsed legislation that would bankrupt our nation by providing free taxpayer-funded health care to millions of illegal aliens, forcing taxpayers to subsidize free care for anyone in the world who unlawfully crosses our borders."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactImmigration

Charleroi, Pennsylvania, “has grown by 2,000% due to an influx in migrants.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

American taxpayer dollars provide “free housing, free medical, free state identification” to immigrants in the country illegally.

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esImmigration

41 inmigrantes han hecho un motín en el hospital Virgen de la Caridad en Cartagena e intentan fugarse

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactImmigration

Elissa Slotkin “gave your hard-earned tax money to illegal immigrants.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

Says a video shows Joe Biden boasted in 2006 “about voting for ‘700 miles of fence’” and “talking about immigration in some entirely different ways than he does today.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactImmigration

Speaking about border apprehensions, said “We have some of the best numbers we've ever had. Southern border, the best numbers we've ever had.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Facebook postsImmigration

Says presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said, "Social Security must (be) expanded to illegal immigration, it’s their right."

Publisher’s rating: False

PesaCheckImmigration

Miguna Miguna lands back in Kenya after being deported

Publisher’s rating: False.

PolitiFactImmigration

“NYC will give $1,000 taxpayer-funded credit cards to migrants.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True