We fact-checked some of Trump's most common claims on immigration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump's claim: "The day I left office, the border was the safest it ever was in the history of our country," Trump said this month at a Fox News town hall.
34% : "Fact check: Trump often uses a chart that he says demonstrates that border crossings were at an all-time low when he left office.
32% : Trump and his supporters seized on the statement, claiming FEMA has given so much money to cities dealing with an influx of migrants that it has none left for natural disasters.
30% : "Fact check: Illegal voting by migrants is a claim Trump and other Republicans have made in previous election cycles.
29% : They refer to immigrants who entered under any administration, including Trump's.
29% : Trump claim: In January, Trump told an Iowa crowd that Democrats are allowing migrants into the country "to sign these people up to vote.
28% : But the report did not state that any children were, as Trump claimed, missing, dead, sex slaves, or slaves.
27% : "It's all gone," Trump said during a visit to a hard-hit community in North Carolina.
26% : Fact check: The statistics Trump cited are not about people who entered specifically during the Biden administration.
26% : Trump has also broadly painted migrants as violent criminals.
23% : Trump claim: "You have large numbers of terrorists coming in like we've never seen," Trump told Asheville, N.C.'s ABC 13 News in August.
14% : Trump claim: In New York on Sunday, Trump said, "325,000 children are missing, dead, sex slaves, or slaves.
14% : On top of that, Trump appears to be inappropriately adding 291,000 children who, according to the report, had not been served notices to appear in immigration court as of May 2024.
10% : Trump's claim: "They're going to be attacking -- and they already are -- Black population jobs, the Hispanic population jobs, and they're attacking union jobs too," Trump said during a recent campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

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