Has ICE Refused Even Donated Flu Shot Vaccines for Detainees? 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.
‘This Is Canada, This Is the United States’ Border Meme A meme about the border between Canada and the United States was shared thousands of times on social media in October 2019.
Did ICE Get Caught Shopping for ‘Urban Warfare’ Training Facilities? A Newsweek story about the agency's push for "hyper-realistic" mockups was only the latest story on the issue.
Does Video Show Seesaws on Both Sides of the Border Wall? 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”: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2494457997241197 The clip racked up millions of views in just a few days. Its caption read: Amazing: Artists installed seesaws at the […]
Did Texas Ranchers Find ‘Prayer Rugs’ Near the U.S.-Mexico Border? Amid a flurry of headlines about the government shutdown and Michael Cohen on January 18 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted a highly dubious claim that ranchers on the southern United States border had found “prayer rugs” as part of a plea to fund his plan to build a wall to separate the U.S. from Mexico: Border […]
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 […]
The Truth About the Migrant Caravan Approaching the United States On October 18th, 2018, United States President Donald Trump fired off a volley of tweets about a large caravan of people wending their way from Honduras to the southern United States border: These statements were duly picked up and breathlessly repeated by news channels and pundits, spreading the story with crucial context omitted from the story, such […]
‘Lots of Free Stuff Ahead’ Sign at U.S.-Mexico Border There's no sign at the U.S.-Mexico border promising "lots of free stuff ahead." Photo editing software was used to create the fake sign.
Photos of Trash in the Arizona Desert Left Behind by ‘Illegal Immigrants’? A photograph showing trash and debris scattered across a desert landscape comes as part of a chain email that says it is an “eye-opener” from the Sonoran Desert region in Arizona, showing a trash-covered landscape: According to chain emails and Facebook posts, thousands of backpacks, clothes, food wrappers, water bottles and soiled baby diapers were […]
List of ‘Facts and Figures’ About Undocumented Immigrants? A chain email turned into a meme claims to be a list of "facts" about unauthorized immigration to the United States, but it fails badly on the "facts" front.
