Lie March 8, 2018 · Remarks · Immigration

“What the mayor of Oakland did the other day was a disgrace, where they had close to a thousand people ready to be gotten, ready to be taken off the streets. Many of them, they say 85 percent of them were criminals, and had criminal records. And the mayor of Oakland went out, and she -- she went out and warned them all. Scatter. So instead of taking in a thousand, they took in a fraction of that.”

Said
March 8, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
2 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 2571)

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