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Checked by PolitiFact3 Feb 2021United States Health

Tom Cotton, U.S. Senator

“A lot of these migrants that are coming, we have no way to screen their backgrounds for either health or security.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection database allows personnel to run background checks on people apprehended at the border and access records collected by U.S. and foreign authorities.