Anti-Immigrant Claims Involving Homeless ‘Veterans’ Fall Apart A New York state lawmaker has recanted allegations that came from a veterans' group.
Florida Gov. DeSantis Sued for ‘Fraudulent and Illegal Scheme’ Against Immigrants The governor also faces an investigation from a Texas sheriff for shipping around fifty migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
Is Family Separation Genocide? In February 2019, a mid-2018 tweet about family separations and the permanent and widespread transfer of children from their families to other people qualifying as genocide began recirculating. The tweet was initially published in June 2018, and it said: Stealing someone’s child and then giving them to someone else permanently is not “adoption”. It is […]
Are Asylum-Seekers Getting Numbers Written on Their Arms at the United States Border? Amid escalating news reports of unarmed adults and children being teargassed over an international border by the United States, infants and children being forcibly, and permanently, taken from their parents, and asylum-seekers being held in detention camps, yet another story and image appeared: Photo credit: Adria Malcolm for Yahoo! News As some readers and viewers […]
Was Teargas Used ‘Once a Month’ at the Border Under the Obama Administration? The days following a cross-border chemical attack by American forces on unarmed members of a caravan of men, women, and children from Central America across the border with Mexico were filled with disinformation and outright propaganda as people and organizations attempted to justify the actions. One of the tear gas canisters the US used on […]
Were Seven Children Rescued From Smugglers Embedded in a ‘Migrant Caravan’ in Guatemala? On October 25th, 2018, as bots and paid trolls pushed talking points on social media about a caravan of people from Honduras on their way to Mexico’s border with the United States to turn themselves in to seek asylum, the Judicial Watch blog published a shocking story about seven children who were saved from human […]
Did a Caravan of Central Americans Beat Up Police in Mexico? As a group of desperate women, men, and children traveled north from Central America to try to turn themselves in at the United States border in the hopes of receiving asylum, disinformation and smears about the group and their motives flew thick and fast: The caravan is not an invasion? Look what they do to […]
Do Refugees Receive $3,874 (or $1,890) Per Month in Federal Assistance? False claims that Canada pays illegal refugees $3,874 per month are based on a misleading document posted on Facebook.
