The Republican Party has a new sheriff.
Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party's nomination for president Thursday in Cleveland, vowing a law and order campaign that will "liberate our citizens from the crime and terrorism and lawlessness that threatens their communities."
"On Jan. 21, 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced," Trump said.
Some of his specific talking points were more accurate than others. PolitiFact fact-checked 16 statements from Trump's speech. Here are highlights:
Immigrant families
Trump laid out his assessment of the nation and said it was time to go back to safety, prosperity and peace.
"The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015," Trump said.
Many would understand what he said as measuring family crossings in a calendar year — and by this metric, Trump is wrong. However, Customs and Border Protection reports apprehension data by fiscal year. And by that measure, he has a point. On balance, we rate this claim Half True.
The plight of poverty
Trump also made an attempt to appeal to the Latino demographic, saying he would combat rising poverty in the community.
"Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago," he said.
Trump is technically correct, because the number of Hispanics under the poverty line jumped from 10.9 million in 2008 to 13.1 million in 2014. However, a lot of that stems from a rising Hispanic population.
A better measurement, experts said, is the percent of Hispanics in poverty. This number has stayed even under Obama — 23.2 percent in 2008 and 23.6 percent in 2014. We rated Trump's statement Half True.
Food stamps
Trump also said that government spending has failed to alleviate the plight of those on food stamps.
"Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in third-world condition, and 43 million Americans are on food stamps," he said.
Based on U.S. Department of Agriculture numbers, Trump is correct. Since 2013, the number of people using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has fallen by 4 million, and the recession in 2008 played a significant role in growing the rolls during Obama's presidency.
We rated his statement True.
Clinton attacks
On the same topic, Trump claimed Clinton "wants sanctuary cities," which are jurisdictions that limit how law enforcement interacts with federal officials on immigration. Proponents say these cities will make people more open to talk to the police.
Clinton has criticized sanctuary cities on specific instances — such as when Kate Steinle was allegedly killed in San Francisco by an undocumented immigrant from Mexico — but in general has said sanctuary cities can promote public safety.
We rate Trump's statement Mostly True.
To blame for ISIS?
Trump attributed the rise of ISIS in the Middle East directly to Clinton's decisions as secretary of state.
"In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map," he said.
This statement mischaracterizes history. The acronym ISIS is recent, but the group's origins stem as far back as 2004, when Sunni extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi established al-Qaida in Iraq. The group has gone by various names.
As for ISIS's growth, some have criticized former president George W. Bush for overthrowing Saddam Hussein in Iraq and creating a vacuum. Obama has been accused of creating a similar vacuum by withdrawing from the country.
"She may 'share some of the blame,' but there is more than enough share to go around," said John Pike, a defense expert and director of GlobalSecurity.org. "She was in no sense the singular author of the thing."
We rate his statement Mostly False.
Screening refugees
In attacking Clinton, Trump repeated one of his favorite talking points — that Clinton will radically increase the amount of Syrian refugees entering the country.
"My opponent has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees on top of existing massive refugee flows coming into our country under President Obama," he said. "She proposes this despite the fact that there's no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from."
We've checked similar versions of this claim before, and each time have found the number to be consistent with Clinton's announced proposals. What Trump gets wrong, however, is that we have "no way" to screen refugees.
The screening might not be foolproof, but it does exist. We rated this claim Half True.
Second Amendment
Trump warned of drastic plans to strip Americans of their gun rights if Clinton wins the election.
"My opponent wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment," Trump said.
This is not a stated policy of the Clinton campaign. In both her 2008 and 2016 White House bids, Clinton has called for more gun regulation while saying she "believes in the Second Amendment."
Deep below the surface of Trump's attack is concern, shared by some gun rights advocates, over two eyebrow-raising comments from Clinton over the past year. The first came when she mused about Australia's mandatory gun buyback program after a 1996 massacre in Tasmania, which she said was "worth looking into." The second was her secretly recorded criticism of the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia vs. Heller, in which the court struck down Washington's handgun ban and recognized that the Second Amendment applies to the individual's right to bear arms.
In both cases, there was more context and questions than the cherry-picked comments let on.
Trump's statement is a serious, inaccurate charge that rates False.
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