“Says the Biden administration’s Unaccompanied Alien Children process has “no vetting, no transparency.”
What PolitiFact found
Contrary to what DeSantis said, immigration officials screen children as part of the Unaccompanied Alien Children process, to determine if they are victims of trafficking and check if they have a criminal record.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Governor of Florida) made this claim around 7 February 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 March 2022, 22 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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.
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