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Criminologists in Venezuela say the country's decline in crimes is because of the country’s poor economy, mass migration and the government's extrajudicial killings, not the government emptying prisons.

President Joe Biden overstated the authority provided to him in the border security bill. Former President Donald Trump made broad and often unsubstantiated statements about the migrants entering the U.S. and his administration’s immigration successes.

The Senate immigration bill would have hired thousands of asylum officers and expanded their powers, but asylum officers are already employed to decide asylum cases.

DeSantis said Churchill said, "success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." PolitiFact reports the International Churchill Society, the Churchill Project at Hillsdale College and a Churchill historian say that Churchill didn’t say that.

Immigration officials have encountered migrants 8.1 million times during Joe Biden’s presidency, but the data represents events not people.

Gov. Ron DeSantis used his annual message to the state Legislature to leave voters in Florida — and maybe caucusgoers in Iowa, too — with an inescapable message: We’re No. 1.

The Biden administration are fighting claims from Republicans that his immigration policies are causing upticks in illegal immigration. But key immigration data doesn't tell you the whole story. PolitiFact explains the key facts to better understand claims you might hear in ads and speeches ahead of elections.

Federal data — tracking removals, returns and expulsions — shows Barack Obama deported more people in each of his terms than Trump did.

To discern facts from falsities, PolitiFact looked at DeSantis’ record on immigration while in Congress, and the facts behind Newsom’s claim that DeSantis supported amnesty.

Stephen Miller, who led Trump’s first-term immigration agenda, provided The New York Times an overview of Trump’s second-term immigration proposals. Some of the plans mirror Trump’s 2016 campaign promises; others go further.

Legal experts said they saw John Lauro’s statements as political positioning rather than a true legal defense.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said "Illinois is now letting illegal aliens become police officers." The statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts.