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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

PolitiFactImmigration

"Tim Walz firmó una ley para dar licencia de conducir a inmigrantes ilegales en Minnesota".

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactImmigration

“Biden’s plan will immediately let in 25,000 asylum-seekers who’d been waiting in Mexico as their cases were judged.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactImmigration

Then-Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks in 2015 video prove he “intentionally” opened U.S. borders to immigrants.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

“The family separation policy actually began under the Obama administration.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

El expresidente Donald Trump dijo “ESTOY PIDIENDO LA PENA DE (MUERTE) PARA CUALQUIER MIGRANTE”.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

American citizens “pay $155 billion annually to make sure illegal immigrants are taken care of better than American citizens”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

Photos show children in cages.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

"About a third of Texas has seen a 20-25% population loss in the last 5 years."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

“We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Washington PostImmigration

“We write to you today with grave concern regarding your administration’s repeated flying of illegal immigrants from sites along our Southern Border to locations around the United States, including our home state of New York.”

Publisher’s rating: Not the whole story

PolitiFactImmigration

Joe Biden “is letting millions of people from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions, drug dealers pour in.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactImmigration

“Donald Trump wants to build an ‘iron dome’ at the border of our country to ‘defend us’ from Canada.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Alexandria Ocasio-CortezImmigration

"This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants."

Publisher’s rating: Loaded language confuses issue

PolitiFactImmigration

Says people are moving to Milwaukee “in record numbers”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Conservative Daily PostImmigration

"Disease-ridden" migrants from parts of Africa with Ebola are being "dumped in San Antonio."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

President Trump "hasn’t built any new (border) wall" during his time in office.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

Tulsi GabbardImmigration

Says immigrant military service members applying for U.S. citizenship "are getting rejected at higher numbers than those who are not veterans."

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactImmigration

"More than 100,000 DACA applicants have been arrested—Murder, Rape, DUI."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactImmigration

Democrats don’t deport undocumented migrants “because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactImmigration

When Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter."

Publisher’s rating: False