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Donald Trump, Former President of the United States

“On unaccompanied children who crossed the border, "88,000 children are missing under this administration. ... And unfortunately, many of those children are dead.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: In 2023, the New York Times reported that the Department of Health and Human Services was not able to get in contact with more than 85,000 children whom department officials had placed with relatives or other sponsors.

Checked by PolitiFact13 Jun 2024United States
Donald Trump, former president of the United States

“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: U.S. border officials have encountered migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo more than 2,000 times under Biden. But experts on prisons or Congo said that they had no evidence to back up Trump’s statement.