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Search results for "Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers"

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Andrew Cuomo stated on July 18, 2017 in an article on LinkedIn:
"70 million Americans have a criminal record — that’s one in three adults."
By Dan Clark• August 18, 2017
Joe Biden stated on October 21, 2021 in a town hall in Baltimore:
“We’ve created more jobs in the first eight months of my administration than any president in American history — total number of jobs created.”
By Louis Jacobson• October 22, 2021
Jeb Bush stated on January 09, 2011 in an opinion article in the 'Miami Herald':
"A record number of Hispanics were elected to the U.S House of Representatives..."
By Laura Figueroa• January 13, 2011
Joe Biden stated on May 24, 2024 in a campaign email:
"The last administration oversaw the largest increase in murders ever recorded."
By Louis Jacobson• June 10, 2024
Jeb Bush stated on May 13, 2015 in a response to a question after a town hall meeting:
"We had an agreement that the president could have signed that would have kept 10,000 troops" in Iraq.
By Joshua Gillin• May 18, 2015
American Bridge 21st Century stated on August 06, 2012 in a TV ad:
Says U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV passed "only one bill" in seven years.
By Brittany Alana Davis• August 6, 2012
Joe Biden stated on July 13, 2021 in a speech in Philadelphia:
"In 2020, more people voted in America than ever in the history of America, in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic."
By Louis Jacobson• July 13, 2021
Kristi Noem stated on August 19, 2025 in a press conference:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics show, “We have 1.6 million illegal aliens that have gone home voluntarily.”
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 2, 2025
Derrick Van Orden stated on December 07, 2021 in Twitter:
Actions by Joe Biden left "10,000 to 15,000 American citizens abandoned to terrorists in Afghanistan."
By Alan Hovorka• January 4, 2022
TikTok posts stated on May 29, 2020 in a video:
Data show that more white people than Black people are shot and killed by police.
By Daniel Funke• June 3, 2020
Donald Trump stated on January 08, 2018 in a tweet:
"African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in our country. The Hispanic unemployment rate dropped a full point in the last year and is close to the lowest in recorded history. Dems did nothing for you but get your vote!"
By Louis Jacobson• January 8, 2018
Ann Coulter stated on September 08, 2010 in a column:
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
By Louis Jacobson• September 10, 2010
Joe Biden stated on April 19, 2011 in a speech in Cleveland:
"We have created more jobs in this last year than the Bush administration (did) in eight years."
By Mark Naymik• April 28, 2011
Richard Durbin stated on July 11, 2019 in a speech:
Says President Trump "has ended up attracting larger numbers of people coming to the United States presenting themselves for asylum status at our border than we’ve ever seen."
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller• July 28, 2019
Marco Rubio stated on May 19, 2024 in an interview:
The number of people in the U.S. illegally is “upwards of 20, 25, maybe 30 million.”
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• June 11, 2024
Lindsey Graham stated on July 28, 2010 in an interview with Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren":
"People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called 'drop and leave."
By Louis Jacobson• August 6, 2010
Greg Abbott stated on March 14, 2016 in speaking to reporters:
Texas "had the highest level of turnout than ever before in the primary."
By W. Gardner Selby• March 24, 2016
Tennessee Republican Party stated on May 23, 2018 in a Republican party blog post:
"While Phil Bredesen was in the governor’s office, the number of Tennesseans on unemployment nearly doubled."  
By Jon Greenberg• May 29, 2018
Peter Pantuso stated on June 07, 2011 in a speech at a press conference.:
Commercial buses in the United States have "a stellar safety record, a safety record that exceeds that of any other commercial mode or surface transportation mode."
By Jacob Geiger• June 11, 2011
Barack Obama stated on March 20, 2014 in a speech in Orlando:
"Our high school graduation rate is the highest on record."
By Steve Contorno• March 26, 2014

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Jeb Bush selectively recounts details of Iraq and ISIS

By Joshua Gillin• August 14, 2015

Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union speech

By Allison Graves, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, John Kruzel, Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman, Manuela Tobias, Miriam Valverde• January 31, 2018

2024 RNC fact-check: Trump appears with Vance, allies talk economy on Day 1

By Louis Jacobson• July 16, 2024

Checking out Neil deGrasse Tyson’s comparison of mass shootings to other causes of death

By Bill McCarthy• August 7, 2019

Fact-checking the Tampa Republican debate

By Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan• January 24, 2012

PunditFact fact-checks the April 12 Sunday shows

By Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman• April 12, 2015

5 myths about immigration

By Will Cabaniss• July 2, 2015

Graham promoting himself as foreign policy expert

By Nancy Badertscher• September 21, 2015

PolitiFact's Top 5 for May 2015

By Miles Adair• June 4, 2015

Fact-checking the April 12 news shows

By Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman• April 12, 2015

Donald Trump’s misleading claims about immigration in State of the Union address

By Miriam Valverde• January 31, 2018

Ron Paul's PolitiFact report card

By • April 26, 2011

Of Dreamers and drug mules: Rep. King on the DREAM Act

By Jon Greenberg• July 26, 2013

Fact-checking the first Democratic presidential debate

By Katie Sanders• October 14, 2015

Americans on their own in Ukraine? Military-led evacuations like in Afghanistan are not the norm

By Jeff Cercone• January 31, 2022

Fact-checking Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix

By Linda Qiu, Miriam Valverde• September 1, 2016

Fact-checking claims about the Islamic State

By Katie Sanders• September 2, 2014

How are Afghan refugees being vetted? Here’s what we know

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• August 25, 2021

Demon Sheep 2: Counting sheared sheep not so easy

By Angie Drobnic Holan• June 2, 2010