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Trump's Homeland Security Chief Made a Questionable Claim About Immigration From Central America, and Politifact Just Clapped Back
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 18: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen speaks on migrant children being separated from parents at the southern border during a White House daily news briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House June 18, 2018 in Washington, DC. Nielsen joined White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders at the daily news briefing to answer questions from members of the White House Press Corps. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Last Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen claimed that billboards in Central America were encouraging those looking to emigrate to the United States to do so illegally.

During an interview with NBC’s Peter Alexander at the Aspen Security Forum, Nielson expressed President Donald Trump's administration's frustration with "loopholes" in American immigration policy that supposedly incentivize illegal immigration.

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