“There have now been 16 straight months of OVER 150,000 illegal border crossings.”
What PolitiFact found
Customs and Border Protection data shows that the number of southwest border encounters has exceeded 150,000 per month for 18 consecutive months.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Alex Mooney (U.S. Rep., R-W.Va.) made this claim around 3 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 October 2022. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Alex Mooney has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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