American Vet wrote:
Like in 2016?
No evidence ‘many’ i*****l i*******ts v**ed in midterm e******ns, as Lou Dobbs said
In the run-up to the midterm e******n, President Donald Trump and his allies in conservative media made exaggerated claims about an "invasion" of a roughly 3,500-person caravan of mainly-Honduran migrants headed for America’s southern border.
With the e******n in the rearview mirror, the migrant caravan has mostly faded from the headlines. But a new concern over i*****l i*******ts and the midterms got play on Lou Dobbs’ Tonight, with the host claiming many non-citizen v**ers cast b****ts in the race.
"We are watching, you know, millions of i*****l i*******ts cross our borders," Dobbs said, "and many of them v****g in the past e******n that's what, just a couple weeks ago."
Dobbs said i*****l i*******ts were having an "immense impact." He then went on to cite the potential consequences on the apportionment of congressional districts.
We found no basis for the Fox Business Network host’s claim about undocumented people v****g in the midterms.
Allegations of undue influence over American e******ns have become fairly commonplace in the Trump era. Trump himself has repeatedly claimed the existence of massive v***r f***d and e******n r*****g, which we’ve debunked again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
In the case of the 2018 midterms, we’ve found no evidence to back up Dobbs’ claim that many i*****l i*******ts v**ed.
Fox News’ media contacts did not respond to our request for comment.
FEATURED FACT-CHECK
Charlie Kirk
stated on February 2, 2020 in a tweet
Says "EIGHT Iowa counties have more adults registered to v**e than v****g-aged adults living there.”
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By Daniel Funke • February 3, 2020
"There’s zero evidence of even dozens, let alone millions, of non citizens v****g in this or any other e******n," said according to David Becker, the executive director of the Center for E******n Innovation & Research, a non-profit focused on e******n integrity.
Dobbs’ claim that "we are watching millions of i*****l i*******ts cross our borders" needs context.
According to Department of Homeland Security figures, in fiscal year 2018 the U.S. Border Patrol caught 396,579 people crossing the southern border. A broader read of border crossings would also include department data on the number of foreign travelers to the United States who overstayed their visas, which was estimated at around 600,000 in fiscal year 2017.
As we’ve noted in a previous fact-check, there’s an oft-cited study among those claiming i*****l i*******ts have an outsized influence on U.S. e******ns. The study purports to show "14 percent of people who v**ed were noncitizens."
Many credible researchers have panned the study as methodologically unsound for using an opt-in Internet poll originally designed to survey citizens and not considering possible survey response error.
The federal government recently brought charges against 19 foreign nationals who v**ed in the 2016 e******n in North Carolina, where a total of more than 4.7 million v**es were cast.
Experts said the Department of Justice under President George W. Bush, and Republican and Democratic e******n officials have investigated v***r f***d extensively and found it is extremely rare. President Trump’s short-lived v***r f***d commission couldn’t find any evidence of widespread fraud before being disbanded.
As for Dobbs’ claim, we rate it Pants on Fire.