Lie April 4, 2019 · Remarks · Immigration

“So for the last four days -- and you actually have covered it to a very minor extent -- Mexico has been capturing people and bringing them back to their countries at their southern border. They've been taking people under their very powerful laws -- they have the right to do it -- and they're bringing them back to where they came from. That's about three days now, I guess, since -- frankly, since they heard I was going to close the border.”

Said
April 4, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
13 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 9810)

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