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Jeanette Nuñez, lieutenant governor of Florida

“Miami’s immigration courts have the “largest backlog of any court in this country with 10% of the overall immigration cases,” and “more than 90%” of people lose their asylum claims.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: Miami’s immigration court has a 290,000-case backlog, the highest in the US. It denied asylum claims in about 73% of cases heard since 2000. So far in fiscal year 2023-24, the court had an average rejection rate of 67%.

James Lankford, U.S. Senator

“Just in the past four months, we’ve had tens of thousands of people that came across our border that were identified as a national security risk.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

FactCheck.org says: "Special Interest Aliens" are migrants that the DHS defined in 2019 as non-Americans who "potentially" pose a “national security risk” to the U.S. based primarily on their travel or country of origin.