Lie January 2, 2019 · Remarks · Immigration

“And we'd save money -- so much money -- on a monthly basis. Probably it would pay for itself in a month or two. Because we lose pretty close to $250 billion on illegal immigration. And I would say that it could be on a monthly, or a couple of months, it would pay for the wall, pay for what we're talking about.”

Said
January 2, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
25 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 7887)

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