Claim: "Of all the people in federal prison for possession of illegal substances, 77 percent of them are not citizens of the United States."
Fact-check: Louie Gohmert singles out 514 federal inmates, mostly noncitizens, convicted of possessing drugs
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2016-06-17T00:00:00