“Says the Obama administration "didn't lock people up in cages.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential candidate. Democratic presidential debate in Houston. Claim dated 12 Sep 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 12 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 September 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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