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  • 2021-03-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Maxine Waters Say, ‘The Next Supreme Court Justice Should Be An Illegal Immigrant’? (en)
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  • An image shared on Facebook claims Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters said, The next Supreme Court justice should be an illegal immigrant. Verdict: False This is no record of Waters making the statement. Fact Check: Waters, who represents California’s 43rd congressional district, condemned in June 2018 the Trump administration’s policy under which children in undocumented immigrant families were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a press release on her congressional website. She also previously issued a statement on Twitter criticizing former President Donald Trump for using racist slurs about immigrants. A post on Facebook shares an image of Waters and claims she made the statement, The Next Supreme Court Justice Should Be An Illegal Immigrant. (RELATED: ‘#GUNCONTROLNOW’ – Did Maxine Waters Send This Tweet About Gun Ownership?) The statement, however, has been misattributed to Waters. Check Your Fact searched the congressional record , as well as Waters’ verified social media posts , but found no instances of the remark. Nor did the comment appear on Waters’ website . An internet search by Check Your Fact likewise didn’t turn up any media reports of Waters making the statement in question. The fake quote appears to originate from a 2018 tweet shared by the now-defunct Twitter account @CNNPoltics , which described itself as Political fake news, campaign stories and Washington coverage from this CNN parody account, according to an archived screen grab of its Twitter page. The tweet tagged @MaxinePWaters , a parody account that has been suspended. This isn’t the first time Waters has been the subject of a fake quote. Check Your Fact previously corrected a false rumor that a tweet sent by the account @MaxinePWaters about gun control was actually sent by Waters herself. (en)
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