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Search results for "Melissa Isaak was hired by the Justice Department on April 8 as a temporary immigration judge"

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Fact-checks (15568)

Donald Trump stated on May 24, 2018 in a Fox &Friends interview:
Speaking of immigration cases, says, "We have thousands of judges."
By Miriam Valverde• May 30, 2018
Donald Trump stated on April 16, 2024 in statement to the media in New York City:
“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”
By Amy Sherman• April 19, 2024
Stephen Miller stated on May 09, 2025 in an interview:
The Immigration and Nationality Act “stripped Article III courts, that's the judicial branch, of jurisdiction over immigration cases.”
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• May 15, 2025
Jon Favreau stated on July 08, 2025 in Pod Save America:
“ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”
By Amy Sherman• July 11, 2025
Melissa Agard stated on January 03, 2023 in TV interview:
"Historically, our spring elections (including for state Supreme Court) have a smaller turnout associated with them."
By D.L. Davis• January 10, 2023
Threads posts stated on January 21, 2025 in a post on Threads:
“The removal of birthright citizenship only applies to the children of those that are here ILLEGALLY.”
By Madison Czopek• January 24, 2025
Nan Orrock stated on January 22, 2014 in television interview:
Florida shelled out more money for drug testing than it saved by denying welfare benefits to people who tested positive for drugs.
By Nancy Badertscher• February 4, 2014
Thomas Melsheimer stated on June 07, 2010 in an op-ed article:
"Across the country, more than half of the U.S. attorney seats remain without a prosecutor chosen by Obama."
By W. Gardner Selby• June 10, 2010
Steve Daines stated on November 15, 2018 in a Senate hearing:
Sanctuary jurisdictions "violate the laws of our nation."
By Miriam Valverde• November 27, 2018
Michael Bloomberg stated on July 27, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic convention:
Says Donald Trump "games the U.S. visa system so he can hire temporary foreign workers at low wages."
By Amy Sherman• July 28, 2016
Tom Ganley stated on July 06, 2010 in a statement posted to his website:
"The Arizona law basically parrots the federal immigration law."
By Sabrina Eaton• July 24, 2010
Julián Castro stated on April 01, 2019 in a Medium post:
Says that the George W. Bush administration in 2005 revived a long-standing law when it "decided to charge those that crossed the border with criminal violations, rather than civil ones."
By Miriam Valverde• April 5, 2019
NumbersUSA stated on July 22, 2015 in a Facebook meme:
"More than half of all drivers' licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens."
By Jon Greenberg• July 28, 2015
Alison Littell McHose stated on June 30, 2011 in a news release:
"Illegal immigration costs state taxpayers over $3 billion every year."  
By Caryn Shinske• August 7, 2011
Facebook posts stated on January 31, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Hundreds of ‘illegals’ were dropped off at Florida hotel.
By Jeff Cercone• February 1, 2022
Donald Trump stated on February 05, 2017 in an interview with Bill O'Reilly:
Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.
By Linda Qiu• February 6, 2017
JD Vance stated on October 01, 2024 in a debate:
Says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal immigrants.”
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 3, 2024
Facebook posts stated on December 12, 2024 in a post:
Images show Taylor Swift with Elon Musk promoting a household energy consumption reduction device.
By Sara Swann• December 13, 2024
Steve King stated on July 10, 2014 in an interview on Fox news:
Says "nothing" in Obama’s $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation "actually secures the border."
By Lauren Carroll• July 14, 2014
JoAnne Kloppenburg stated on March 15, 2016 in a website posting:
In the primary election, a "right-wing group spent more than $100,000,000 to support" Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley.
By James B. Nelson• March 21, 2016

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By Maria Briceño, Maria Ramirez Uribe• April 28, 2025

Killing chickens, banning TikTok: Six times Trump criticized Democrats for things he also supported

By Amy Sherman• February 3, 2025

Three takeaways from the Senate hearing with Sally Yates, James Clapper

By Lauren Carroll• May 8, 2017

Fact-checks about Florida voting and elections

By Amy Sherman• November 4, 2014

What the U.S. Supreme Court decision means for the deportation of criminal immigrants

By Miriam Valverde• April 23, 2018

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By Maria Ramirez Uribe• December 16, 2022

Donald Trump extended Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Here's what that means

By Miriam Valverde• May 22, 2017

How do standards measure up at immigration detention centers? A special report

By Miriam Valverde• September 6, 2017

Florida immigration law: Do new employment rules affect workers in seasonal, agricultural jobs?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 12, 2023

President Donald Trump called for a judge’s impeachment. It’s unlikely to happen.

By Amy Sherman• March 19, 2025

Timeline: DACA, the Trump administration and a government shutdown

By Miriam Valverde• January 22, 2018

PolitiFact’s Top 5 fact-checks for February 2016

By Angie Drobnic Holan• March 1, 2016

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Did President Donald Trump break a promise to Florida’s Haitian population?

By Allison Graves• December 7, 2017

Judge’s ruling on TPS for Haitians temporarily blocks Trump campaign promise

By Amy Sherman• February 3, 2026

Fact-check: Trump misleads about birthright citizenship, birth tourism before SCOTUS hearing

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 31, 2026

FACT SHEET: Immigration

By Adriel Bettelheim• January 15, 2008

What Trump has done in his first 100 days in office

By Miriam Valverde• April 26, 2017

The facts behind the detention of immigrants

By Stefanie Pousoulides, Miriam Valverde• July 8, 2019