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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

Facebook postsImmigration

"No one mentions that illegals are free to leave detention centers anytime to go back to Mexico. They aren't our prisoners."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactImmigration

“Texas just gifted Trump 355,000 acres for deportation camps.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

Of the Trump administration’s European travel restrictions that exempt the U.K.: “Well, you can just get into the Chunnel, and you’ll be in the U.K.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Washington PostImmigration

“Drug traffickers, rapists, poisoning our country. But Nikki Haley refused to call illegals ‘criminals.’”

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

FactCheck.orgImmigration

"Biden is giving each illegal [immigrant] family $2,200 per month."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

Says Joe Biden is “now saying he inherited ‘a mess’ at the border. Fact: 9,000 illegals all of 2020. So far in 2021 108,000 entered U.S.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostImmigration

“That’s why they are allowing these people to come in — people that don’t speak our language — they are signing them up to vote.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

“The biggest threat to your unions is millions of people coming across the border, because you're not gonna have your jobs anymore.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Maldita.esImmigration

Inmigrantes pasan de un barco a una patera en aguas españolas

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FactCheck.orgImmigration

The "Biden-Sanders agenda" would "abolish immigration detention. No more detention. You come in here illegally, no more detention."

Publisher’s rating: False

فکت‌نامهImmigration

نادر طالب‌زاده و «غربی‌های متقاضی پناهندگی در ایران»

Publisher’s rating: مروجان نظریه توطئه

Washington PostImmigration

“We see an uncompleted wall that was duly appropriated dollars during the Trump days to build over 700 miles. Only 150 miles were constructed.”

Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios

PolitiFactImmigration

“We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactImmigration

“The millions (of immigrants) that have been paroled can simply go to their local welfare office or the DMV and register to vote."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgImmigration

"President Biden announces tax incentives for families willing to take in slav—migrants in a new 'Housing for Labor' initiative."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

The Democrats are pushing “to take in a million Palestinian refugees”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactImmigration

The U.S. State Department has started a special immigrants visa “evacuation operation.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostImmigration

Border facilities “are much better than they were under President Obama by far."

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

FactCheck.orgImmigration

TV ad on illegal immigration features a clip of President Joe Biden only saying “nobody is going to be deported."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactImmigration

A photo shows Barack Obama in front of “cages” built during his administration to hold migrants.

Publisher’s rating: Half True