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WATCH: Fact-checking immigration claims from the Harris-Trump debate
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September 11, 2024
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3:38Now PlayingImmigration was major topic of Tuesday night's debate between former President Donald Trump, who is the GOP nominee, and Vice President Kamala, the Democratic nominee.
Trump repeated a false claim that Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio, are eating people's pets. Springfield city officials and local police have said there's no evidence for the claim and have debunked it.
The former president also repeated a claim that migrants are coming to the United States to vote in elections. He has never provided evidence for this claim. Federal law prohibits people living in the U.S. illegally from casting a ballot in national elections.
Our partners at PolitiFact rated both claims as "Pants on Fire," which means "the statement is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim."
Meanwhile, Harris noted that Trump played "a pivotal role and killed a bipartisan border security bill." Trump himself said in a January statement that "a border deal now would be another gift to the radical left Democrats. They need it politically, but don’t care about our border. What is currently being worked on in the Senate will be meaningless in terms of border Security and closure."
PolitiFact editor-in-chief Katie Sanders explains these fact-checks from Tuesday's debate.
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