“Democrats don’t deport undocumented migrants “because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point.”
Elon Musk
owner of X. Claim dated 26 Feb 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
There have been more than 3.6 million removals, returns and expulsions from February 2021, Biden’s first month in office, to September 2023, Department of Homeland Security estimates show.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Elon Musk (owner of X) made this claim around 26 February 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 March 2024, 9 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Elon Musk has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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