“A place like California, they give (immigrants in the country illegally) benefits. They give unemployment checks.”
What PolitiFact found
California provides some benefits to people in the country illegally, but not unemployment benefits. A bill that would approve this is in the state legislature. However, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar bill last year.
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In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida Governor) made this claim around 7 June 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 June 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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