“No elected official is doing more to enable the transmission of COVID in America than Joe Biden with his open borders policies.”
What Washington Post found
There is little evidence to support this claim. Undocumented immigrants found to be covid-positive are quarantined until they are well.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Governor (R-Fla.)) made this claim around 4 August 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 August 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- talkingpointsmemo.comhttps://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-gop-message-on-surging-covid-its-juans-fault
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