“A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration "led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris' border policies.”
JD Vance
U.S. Sen., R-Ohio. Claim dated 25 Aug 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The Trump campaign pointed to data about children who came to the U.S. alone without a parent or guardian. Those children were not separated from their parents by U.S. border officials.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
JD Vance (U.S. Sen., R-Ohio) made this claim around 25 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 September 2024, 10 days later. Its rating was “False”.
JD Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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