“In the last 11 months, Customs and Border Patrol has averaged 200,000 apprehensions a month, and you know how many beds we have to detain people at the border? 38,000.”
What PolitiFact found
Christie’s claim about apprehensions at the border and detention space is mostly right but needs clarification. Because of longstanding immigration laws and policies, not everyone who is apprehended can be detained.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Christie (Former governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination for president) made this claim around 18 October 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 October 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Chris Christie has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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