President Donald Trump fired off a flurry of immigration-related tweets beginning on Easter morning, but his messages included muddled and inaccurate claims.
FactChecking Trump’s Immigration Tweets
Issues: immigration
Will Trump’s Wall Pay for Itself?
President Donald Trump cited a contested report from an organization that advocates low immigration to claim that a wall along the southern border will pay for itself, because those stopped from illegally crossing would not be a burden on taxpayers.
Trump Puts New Twist on Visa Misinformation
President Donald Trump repeatedly has mangled the facts about the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program — as we have documented. This week, he found a new way to misrepresent the program.
Video: Trump’s DACA Boast
The subject of this week’s fact-checking video is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Trump’s Misleading DACA Boast
President Donald Trump makes a misleading comparison when he says his legislative proposal to make the DACA program permanent will “generously” cover “almost three times more people than the previous administration covered.”
Video: Trump’s State of the Union
This video reviews President Donald Trump’s claims in the State of the Union about trade, job creation, auto plants, wages, immigration and U.S. aid to developing countries.
FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union
The president exaggerates his accomplishments in his address to Congress.
The Facts on DACA
Congress is trying to agree on a bipartisan plan on what to do about DACA. We provide an FAQ on the program.
Video: Durbin’s ‘History’ of Distortions
In this week’s fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper examines efforts by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue to discredit Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin’s account of President Trump using profanity to disparage African countries at an immigration meeting in the Oval Office.
Durbin’s ‘History’ of Misrepresentations
Two Republican senators suggest Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin’s account of President Trump using profanity to disparage African countries should not be believed because Durbin has a “history” of misrepresenting what was said at White House meetings. But they are not telling the whole story.