claim: President Donald Trump has targeted the family of California Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de LeÃ³n for deportation.
origin: On 11 August 2017, dubious siteÂ Proud-Patriots.comÂ falsely reported that the family of California senator (and Senate President Pro Tempore) Kevin de LeÃ³n had been targeted for deportation by President Donald Trump because they are allegedly all undocumented: < The Democrats are not immune to survive [sic] the huge pressure on them and their followers from the new laws for illegal immigrants. The DNC opposed every law which confronts their open borders agenda. Kevin de Leon, a California Democrat State Senate leader admitted that with this new reform, half of his family is unlawfully on US soil. > The article uses quotes from a speech given by de LeÃ³n on 31 January 2017, in which he said: < â€¦The reality is, with the executive order and the criteria that has been developed, many individuals â€“ I can tell you, half of my family would be eligible for deportation under the executive order. Because, if they got a false social security card, if they got a false identification, if they got a false driverâ€™s license prior to us passing AB-60, if they got a false green card. And anyone who has family members who are undocumented knows that almost entirely everybody has secured some sort of false identification, thatâ€™s what you need to survive, to work â€“ they are eligible for massive deportation. > De LeÃ³nâ€™s remarks related to a 25 January 2017 executive order signed by Donald Trump, which ordered the enhancement of immigration law enforcement, especially in so-called â€œsanctuaryâ€ jurisdictions.Â The article offers no evidence that either President Trump or Immigration and Customs Enforcement had targeted or was about to target members of de LeÃ³nâ€™s family. Furthermore, a spokesperson for de LeÃ³n told us that the family members to whom the senator was referring have already become naturalized United States citizens or permanent residents. < The Senator generalized that half his family would have been eligible for deportation under Trumpâ€™s new standards. Those members were naturalized during the Reagan era and are now citizens or permanent residents. > The central claim of the Proud Patriots article is false, since the family members Kevin de LeÃ³n referred to are not eligible for deportation on the grounds of being undocumented immigrants.Â