“[A]t a time when we had 2 million illegal immigrants cross our border under Joe Biden’s tenure in office. That’s like adding the entire population of Nebraska to this country.”
What FactCheck.org found
The number of apprehensions at the southern border does not add to the U.S. population on a one-to-one basis. There are several reasons, including that most of those apprehended were immediately turned around.
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In short
Tom Cotton (U.S. senator) made this claim around 30 January 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 February 2022, 4 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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