“Six million or 7 million people have “come illegally under Biden.”
What PolitiFact found
This is an exaggeration. DeSantis' is conflating the number of times border patrol agents encountered migrants at entry points with the number of migrants who entered and remain in the U.S.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate) made this claim around 30 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 October 2023, 5 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.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.
Related checks
- PolitiFact: Mostly False“Biden’s let in 8 million people just in four years.”