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“Joe Biden flew hundreds of thousands of illegals into Florida last year.”
Rick Scott Senator of Florida. a post on X. Claim dated 4 May 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse

What PolitiFact found

Humanitarian parole beneficiaries, must book and pay for their own travel. From January 2023 to August 2023, around 161,000 beneficiaries entered the U.S. at Florida airports. It's unclear how many settled in Florida.

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In short

Rick Scott (Senator of Florida) made this claim around 4 May 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 May 2024, 16 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Rick Scott has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 15 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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