Lie August 4, 2017 · Speech · Immigration

“We announced a historic immigration bill to create a merit-based Green Card system that ends the abuse of our welfare system, stops chain migration, and protects our workers and our economy. As an example, you cannot get welfare for five years when you come into our country. You cannot just come in like in past weeks, years, and decades, you come in immediately and start picking up welfare. For five years, you have to say you will not be asking or using our welfare systems.”

Said
August 4, 2017
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
4 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 0990)

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