“We saw the increases (of unaccompanied minors at the southern U.S. border) dating back almost a year.”
Veronica Escobar
U.S. Representative. Claim dated 14 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
Escobar is correct that the increase started before the Biden presidency and dates back almost a year. Still, there was a sharp increase in arrivals from January to February.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Veronica Escobar (U.S. Representative) made this claim around 14 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 March 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Veronica Escobar has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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