Lie May 16, 2018 · Remarks · Immigration

“We have the worst laws anywhere in the world for illegal immigration. There's no place in the world that has laws like we do. Catch and release, think of it. We catch somebody, we find out they're criminals. We end up having to release them and they go into our society.”

Said
May 16, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
89 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 3122)

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