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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 1-7.
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Tag Archives: immigration
Hoover, Truman & Ike: Mass Deporters?
Q: Did Eisenhower deport 13 million illegal immigrants? Did Hoover and Truman use mass deportations to open jobs for U.S. citizens? A: No. Nothing close to 13 million persons were deported during any administration. All three of these presidents wrestled with a rising tide of illegal immigration, but a long-running …
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Tagged Add new tag, chain e-mail, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, illegal immigrants, immigration, jobs
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Elena Kagan and Immigration
In episode 12 of FactCheck Radio, we look at false and misleading claims made on the Sunday talk shows about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Plus, we examine whether immigration — both legal and illegal — hurts American workers.
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Does Immigration Cost Jobs?
Do immigrants take American jobs? It’s a common refrain among those who want to tighten limits on legal immigration and deny a “path to citizenship” — which they call “amnesty” — to the millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. There’s even a new Reclaim American Jobs Caucus in the House …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged Coalition for the Future American Worker, Gary Miller, immigration, Jim DeMint, Lamar Smith, Reclaim American Jobs Caucus, Sue Myrick
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Sunday Shows and TARP Claims
In episode 10 of FactCheck Radio, we puncture claims from the Sunday shows about immigration and BP’s regulatory receptiveness, and talk about some misleading allegations involving TARP. (Click the play button below to listen to the podcast. Or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.) [podcast]http://factcheck.org/Images/image/radio/FactCheckRadio_episode10.mp3[/podcast] For more on the …
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Tagged Bill Maher, brazil, GM, immigration, oil, podcast, TARP, Webby
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Sunday Replay
Immigration and the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico crowded out most other subjects on the May 2 Sunday talk shows, and we found trampled facts in both areas. Immigration Face-Off on ‘Face the Nation’ Arizona’s tough new immigration law sparked a heated exchange between Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Bill Maher, BP, brazil, face the nation, George Will, immigration, J.D Hayworth, Luis Gutierrez, meet the press, Mike Pence, oil, sunday morning talk shows, This Week, unemployment
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Lou Dobbs’ “Amnesty” Claims
Q: Did CNN’s Lou Dobbs denounce an immigration bill "going through Congress right now"? A: The three-and-a-half-minute video being circulated in chain e-mails is from 2007. Dobbs was criticizing a bipartisan Senate bill, which was supported by Bush and McCain, and which died soon after.
Oklahoma’s Conservativism
Q: Is Oklahoma as defiantly conservative as a chain e-mail says? A: The state is one of the most Republican in the nation, but the message exaggerates Oklahoma’s laws on religion, immigration and guns.
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Tagged chain e-mail, Guns, illegal immigrants, immigration, Oklahoma, social issues
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