Former President Donald Trump knows how important his words about unauthorized immigrants are.

“Migrant criminals.” “Illegal monster.” “Killers.” “Gang members.” “Poisoning our country.” “Taking your jobs.” “The largest invasion in the history of our country.”

Repetition has been core to Trump’s speech throughout his political career. Research has shown that the more times someone hears a statement, the more it feels true.

The Marshall Project used a combination of computer-aided text analysis and human reporting to process over 350,000 of Trump’s public statements from Factba.se. Reporters found 13 major claims about immigration, some of which the former president has repeated 500 times or more. All of them are false or deeply misleading.

Our analysis showed these are among Trump’s most-repeated and noteworthy claims — follow the links for The Marshall Project’s full fact checks:

• Unauthorized immigrants are criminals [said at least 575 times], snakes that bite [at least 35 times], eating pets, coming from jails and mental institutions [at least 560 times], causing crime in sanctuary cities [at least 185 times], and a group of isolated, tragic cases prove they are killing Americans en masse [at least 235 times].
• They are stealing Americans’ public benefits [at least 270 times] and jobs [at least 155 times].
• Democrats want an open border [at least 575 times] and unauthorized immigrants to cast illegal votes [at least 20 times], and programs they support are used by...

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