Claim: President Donald Trump has targeted the family of California Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de León for deportation.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Kevin de León
text: Kevin de León Kevin Alexander Leon (born December 10, 1966), known professionally as Kevin de León, is an American politician who was a candidate in the United States Senate election in California, 2018. A Democrat, de León served in the California State Senate from 2010 to 2018 and served as the State Senate President pro tempore from October 15, 2014, to March 21, 2018. De León represented the 24th Senate district, which encompasses Downtown and East Los Angeles. Before the 2010 redistricting, he represented the 22nd Senate district. De León was elected Senate President Pro Tempore on June 19, 2014,

title: Kevin de León
text: elected to the United States Senate. He supported SB 562, a proposed bill to create a single payer health care system in California, which stalled in 2017. In 2016, de León was accused of nepotism and influence peddling when his daughter, Lluvia Carrasco, was hired by an Encino-based political firm Shallman Communications, which counts de León and a number of other prominent California Democrats as clients. In 2015, de León's daughter also secured a job with the Greenlining Institute, an organization whose bill de León was shepherding through the State Legislature. De León later admitted that he called the organization

title: Kevin de León
text: vote of the legislature to expel Mendoza. Mendoza resigned before a vote could be called, claiming de León's position was politically motivated. On October 15, 2017, de León announced his bid to challenge incumbent United States Senator Dianne Feinstein in the 2018 election. The following day a super PAC created by California political strategists Dave Jacobson and Maclen Zilber was formed to support his candidacy. On June 5, de León came in second place in the "jungle primary" with 12% of the total vote, enough to advance to the November general election. Feinstein received 44% while Republican candidates collectively received

title: Kevin de León
text: and was sworn in on October 15, 2014. A member of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, he is the first Hispanic American to hold the former position in over 130 years. Prior to being elected to the State Senate in 2010, de León served in the California State Assembly, representing the 45th Assembly District. Kevin Leon was born in Los Angeles, to Carmen Osorio and Andrés Leon. Both his parents were born in Guatemala with his father being of full or partial Chinese descent. His mother moved from Guatemala to Tijuana, Mexico in the 1960s; she later moved to Los

title: Kevin de León
text: the University of California, Santa Barbara before dropping out. He later earned a bachelor's degree from Pitzer College in 2003. While attending UC Santa Barbara, he began going by "Kevin de León" though he has never legally changed his name. After dropping out of college, de León worked for One Stop Immigration Center, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles that assists undocumented immigrants. He later became a labor organizer for the California Teachers Association, and served as the campaign manager for Fabian Nuñez's campaign for California State Assembly in 2002. De León and Nuñez have been close political allies for

title: Kevin de León
text: De Leon won many of the same counties won by Republican gubernatorial nominee John Cox. De León has said that he did not know his father, Andres, but remembers meeting him as a boy. He currently lives in Los Angeles and has a grown daughter, Lluvia Carrasco. Carrasco's mother is San Jose Vice Mayor Magdalena Carrasco. De León has never been married. Kevin de León Kevin Alexander Leon (born December 10, 1966), known professionally as Kevin de León, is an American politician who was a candidate in the United States Senate election in California, 2018. A Democrat, de León served

title: Kevin de León
text: just over 33%. De Leon's 12% was the lowest ever recorded for a candidate who advanced to the general election since California instituted its jungle primary rules in 2016. In July, de León won the endorsement of California Democratic Party at their executive board meeting in Oakland. Despite the endorsement, De Leon's campaign has been marked by fundraising struggles and low name recognition. On November 6, 2018 De Leon was defeated by Senator Dianne Feinstein, 54.2% to 45.8%. The race had an undervote of around 1.3 million votes compared to the gubernatorial election, likely by Republican voters choosing neither candidate.

title: Kevin de León
text: to parts of Orange County, was killed by the State Senate appropriations committee. Opponents of the project blamed de León, then President pro Tempore of the Senate, and pointed out that the company behind the project had donated $5,000 to de León's political campaign. Fabian Nuñez, a close ally and donor to de León, also represented company as its lobbyist. DeLeón supported the construction of the state's high speed rail project, but argued that construction should have started in major cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, rather than the state's Central Valley. In his argument, de León described the

title: Kevin de León
text: the vote was later changed. As a result of the controversy, Bass changed Assembly rules to enforce a ban on ghost voting. In 2009, he was defeated in a bid to become Speaker of the California State Assembly, after too many Assembly members found de León's ambitious nature grating, eroding his support, according to reports in the "Los Angeles Times." De León was elected to the California State Senate in 2010 and became President pro Tempore of the State Senate in 2014. As a Senator, de León has been generally regarded as a liberal and describes himself as a "proud

title: Kevin de León
text: of Justice before building or assembling a gun. De León has also criticized NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. De León co-authored, with State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, SB 967, which required colleges in California to adopt an "affirmative consent standard" and prohibits various affirmative defenses, including prohibiting specified factors that may negate an accused's "mens rea" (for example testing the question of intention in a crime), in college disciplinary proceedings involving allegations of sexual misconduct. De León is a supporter of creating a single-payer health care system. He has promised to support Senator Bernie Sanders's "Medicare for All" legislation if

title: Kevin McAleenan
text: most of the migrant children were being held. Kevin McAleenan Kevin K. McAleenan (born September 5, 1971) is an American attorney and government official. Since January 20, 2017, he has served as the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. President Donald Trump's nominated him to assume the position in a permanent capacity in May 2017. McAleenan's nomination was supported by a number of officials from both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, a number of whom signed a letter to Congress expressing "enthusiastic support" for the "supremely qualified" McAleenan. President Trump officially submitted the nomination to the

title: Shooting of Kathryn Steinle
text: death; Trump further called for the need for a secure border wall. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest stated that the U.S. would be safer if Republican lawmakers had approved comprehensive immigration reform backed by President Barack Obama. 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joined California Senator and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, in condemning the policy. Clinton said, "The city made a mistake, not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported ... So I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on."

title: Trump administration family separation policy
text: did so later the same day. On June 22, 2018, the President sent a tweet recommending Republicans to wait until after the November midterm elections to pass immigration legislation. Trump continued to attempt to rally support, by hosting "Angel Families" at the White House on June 23; families whose loved ones had been killed by illegal immigrants. At the rally he pointed out that these families were "American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones". A fact check of Trump's statement noted that illegal immigrants are 25% less likely than native-born Americans, to commit homicide, and are 11.5% less likely

title: Trump administration family separation policy
text: Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan announced a temporary suspension of detaining migrant adults who traveled with children. In this context, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders explained that the government was "out of resources" and could not hold all the undocumented families coming across the US-Mexico border. Three agencies were involved in processing immigrant families: Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. These agencies did not have a shared database for tracking migrant families, complied inaccurate summary data on the separation program, failed to consistently connect family members

title: Presidency of Donald Trump
text: can't do it through an executive order." As the result of a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, on June 26, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the family-separation policy. In his opinion, Sabraw wrote that the federal government "readily keeps track of personal property of detainees in criminal and immigration proceedings", yet "has no system in place to keep track of, provide effective communication with, and promptly produce alien children." The injunction required the government to reunite separated families within 30 days except where not appropriate. On July 26, the administration

title: Reno v. Flores
text: Act of 2008. On June 11, 2018 Republican Senator from Texas Ted Cruz said in a Dallas public radio interview "There's a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail." PolitiFact fact-checked Cruz's statement, concluding it was "mostly false." On June 14, 2018, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, "The separation of illegal alien families is the product of the same legal loopholes that Democrats refuse to close. And these laws are the same that have been on the books for over a decade. The president is simply

title: Trump administration family separation policy
text: of the constitution's Due Process and Equal Protection Clause. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is leading the suit. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who represents California, called Trump's executive order putting a halt to the policy as an "empty and meaningless order that claims to take back policies that he [Trump] put in place himself as a political stunt". In a new motion filed on July 2, the group asked for immediate information and access to those that are being detained. The motion included more than 900 pages of declarations from family members as well as others that have been

title: Fabian Núñez
text: House, was a close friend and staunch political ally of then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. When Esteban Núñez was first arrested, his father's political influence was evident as many letters pleading for a reduction in his son's $2-million bail were sent to the San Diego County Superior Court. One letter, on official stationery, came from Núñez's longtime friend, then Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; one letter came on official stationery from Maria Elena Durazo, head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor; one came from California Assembly Republican Leader Michael Villines; and was sent by California State Assemblyman Kevin de

title: Dana Sabraw
text: June 5 he refused the government's request to dismiss the case, finding that there are sufficient grounds to proceed with the claim that the policy violates plaintiffs’ "constitutional right to family integrity". On June 26, 2018, he entered a nationwide injunction requiring the reunification of all children separated from their family members under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy. On July 16, 2018 Sabraw temporarily suspended family deportations for one week, until family unifications could be completed. On August 3, 2018 Sabraw ruled that it is the government's burden to reunite separated migrant families. Sabraw is married to Summer Stephan,

title: Trump administration family separation policy
text: to President Trump urging him to "rescind this unethical, ineffective, and inhumane policy and instead prioritize approaches that align with our humanitarian and American values". In response to the policy, Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill, Keep Families Together Act (S. 3036), under which the separation of a child from its parents would only be allowed under very specific conditions. By June 18, the entire Democratic caucus of 49 senators (including the two independents who caucus with the Democrats) had signed on as cosponsors. Republicans in Congress fell into four groups on the child-separation policy: Republican Senator Ted Cruz initially