CBP – Truth or Fiction?

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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Are Uniformed Private Contractors Patrolling Portland and Snatching Protesters?

Fact Checks, Viral Content / By Kim LaCapria / July 28, 2020

Escalating tensions and questions about individuals in military uniforms led to a Facebook rumor that Blackwater private contractors were in Portland, Oregon.

Iranians, Iranian-Americans Stopped at U.S. Border with Canada

Fact Checks, Politics / By Arturo Garcia / January 6, 2020

One woman said a border agent asked her parents, “Did you immigrate, or are you a refugee?”

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.

Still from video of evacuees waiting in the Bahamas to be ferried to the United States, September 8, 2019.

United States Officials Blame ‘Confusion’ After Viral Video of Hurricane Evacuees Turned Away

Government, Reporting / By Arturo Garcia / September 9, 2019

Trump says, citing no evidence, that the United States should be wary of “very bad gang members” fleeing from Dorian-related devastation in the Bahamas.

Did ICE Detain an American Citizen Despite His Proof of Citizenship?

Fact Checks, Politics / By Kim LaCapria / July 25, 2019

In July 2019, multiple news organizations reported that American-born teenager Francisco Galicia was apprehended and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the previous month — who then kept him for close to a month: A United States citizen has been detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly a …

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