“A lot of these migrants that are coming, we have no way to screen their backgrounds for either health or security.”
Tom Cotton
U.S. Senator. Claim dated 1 Feb 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
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.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tom Cotton (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 1 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 February 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Tom Cotton has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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