Mexico’s ‘Mummified’ Alien Corpses In September 2023, photographs of purported "alien corpses" circulated on social media after a hearing in Mexico.
DHS Report Confirms Border Officials’ Surveillance Against Journalists and Activists 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 […]
Did Ted Cruz Blame ‘Cancel Culture’ For his Mexico Trip? Cruz's flight to (and return from) Cancún quickly made him online satire fodder.
Did Joe Biden Say ‘I’m Gonna Take on Those Rapist Mexicans’ During a Rally? A short clip on TikTok appeared to show the Democratic Party candidate saying, "I'm going to take on those rapist Mexicans" -- but another TikTok video quickly addressed the claim.
Is Donald Trump Deleting Anti-Immigrant Tweets? In the hours after a mass shooter at a mall in El Paso, Texas left at least 22 people dead, rumors flew that the President of the United States was deleting relevant tweets.
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 […]
Underground Railroad to Mexico? On February 13 2019, a Facebook user shared a screenshot of a tweet, originally tweeted a day earlier by @HISTORY about a purported version of the Underground Railroad running south to Mexico: Text for the tweet read: Slaveholders knew that enslaved people were escaping to Mexico, and the U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign […]
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 Photographs Showing the United States Firing Teargas at a Crowd in Mexico ‘Staged’? On November 25th, 2018, at the tail end of the long Thanksgiving weekend in the United States, the United States government closed down the San Ysidro port of entry — one of the busiest land crossings in the world — into and out of Mexico. When a group of people ran to the border crossing, […]
