“Under President Trump, the federal government achieved historically low levels of illegal immigration.”
What FactCheck.org found
In Trump’s final year in office, illegal border crossings, as measured by apprehensions at the southwest border, were higher than the last full year before he was sworn in.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Greg Abbott (Governor of Texas) made this claim around 8 January 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 January 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Greg Abbott has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://perma.cc/UL4A-H4G2
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