Claim:

“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.”

Reasoning:
The claim implies that the Congolese government is systematically releasing prisoners and sending them to the United States. Fact-checkers found no evidence to support this. Experts and researchers from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Congo Research Group, and World Prison Brief found no information corroborating Trump’s statement. The Trump campaign referenced general data on illegal immigration and human trafficking but did not provide specific evidence of Congolese prisoners being sent to the U.S. Furthermore, U.S. immigration data does not support this claim.

Fact or Fiction?
Fiction.
There is no evidence to support the claim that Congo is releasing prisoners and sending them to the United States.