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DHS Report Confirms Border Officials’ Surveillance Against Journalists and Activists

Disinformation, Reporting / By Arturo Garcia / September 27, 2021

Federal officials say border authorities wrongfully conducted surveillance against journalists and activists crossing between the United States and Mexico — but the United States stopped short of commenting on whether they broke the law in doing so. The Department of Homeland Security’s report addressed a practice first brought to light in a in a March …

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Has ICE Refused Even Donated Flu Shot Vaccines for Detainees?

Fact Checks, Viral Content / By Kim LaCapria / December 10, 2019

Viral tweets claimed that border agencies turned away flu shot donations — even as new details emerged about a teenaged detainee’s flu-related death earlier in the year.

Does Video Show Seesaws on Both Sides of the Border Wall?

Fact Checks, Viral Content / By Kim LaCapria / July 31, 2019

On July 29 2019, the Facebook page “Jolt Texas” shared a video (archived here), stating that “[artists] installed seesaws at the border wall” so that “kids in the U.S. and Mexico could play together”: The clip racked up millions of views in just a few days. Its caption read: Amazing: Artists installed seesaws at the border …

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How Ginned-Up Outrage Turned Two Border Patrol Agents Into Right-Wing Heroes

Crime / Police, Disinformation, Reporting / By Rich Buhler & Staff / March 17, 2015

The fallout from a February 2005 extrajudicial shooting by two U.S. Border Patrol agents was picked up as a source of outrage by right-wing media personalities two years later. Jose Alonso Compeán and Ignacio Ramos were convicted in 2006 for charges including discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence for shooting …

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