Fact-check: “People who enter the country illegally are legally allowed to be employed”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Federal law directly prohibits this. Under 8 U.S.C. § 1324a, employers cannot lawfully hire anyone who lacks work authorization, and a person's status as an unauthorized alien — defined as someone not lawfully admitted for permanent residence and not authorized to work by the Attorney General — bars them from legal employment. Entering the U.S. without authorization does not itself confer any right to work. Some individuals who entered illegally may later obtain work authorization through a sep…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
Related fact-checks
- The US national debt has doubled in the last 10 years — Mostly True
- Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high — False
- The US spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined — Misleading
- Undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than native-born citizens — False
- The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world — Mostly True