claim: "we admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the middle east every year."
author: donald trump
evidence_1: aug 16, 2016 ... “we admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the middle east every year. ” trump overstates the figure here. the number of people seeking lawful  permanent resident status (“a green card”) adds up to about 76,000 people if you  include the arab countries in the levant, persian gulf and north africa, ...
evidence_2: jun 13, 2016 ... "we admit more than 100000 lifetime migrants from the middle east each year,"  trump said in the june 12, 2016, statement. ... specifically, he was referring to  the number of people each year who receive "green cards" -- the documentation  for permanent residency in the united states, which enables the ...
evidence_3: aug 19, 2016 ... we admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the middle east every year.  beyond that, we admit hundreds of thousands of temporary workers and visitors  from the same regions. if we don't control the numbers, we can't perform  adequate screening. this isn't the first time trump has said this. maybe ...
evidence_4: aug 15, 2016 ... donald trump vows to champion immigration reform that would "screen out any  who have hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles." (the washington  post). speaking in ... we admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the  middle east every year. beyond that, we admit hundreds of ...
evidence_5: aug 15, 2016 ... the size of current immigration flows are simply too large to perform adequate  screening. we admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the middle east  every year. beyond that, we admit hundreds of thousands of temporary workers  and visitors from the same regions. if we don't control the numbers, ...