“When migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, “They called out the National Guard and deported them within 24 hours.”
Ron DeSantis
Florida governor. Claim dated 6 Apr 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
A group of about 50 migrants who arrived on Martha’s Vineyard in September was relocated within days to a military base on nearby Cape Cod. They were not removed from the United States.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida governor) made this claim around 6 April 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 April 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “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.
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