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.
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Did Justin Trudeau Say That ‘Islam is the Only Way to Improve Life in Canada’?
Facebook users are trying to push xenophobic and anti-Muslim memes to recycle old, long-debunked conspiracy theories about the Canadian prime minister.
Do Asylum Seekers Get $2,100 Per Month Starting Their First Day in the United States?
A viral Facebook post compares asylum seekers to Social Security recipients, but it gets most of its numbers wrong.
Are Eradicated Diseases Making a Comeback Because of Immigrants and Refugees?
In April 2019, the Facebook page “Donald Plants” shared the following meme (archived here), which claimed that six “eradicated diseases” are in the process of “making a comeback” thanks to the presence of refugees and undocumented immigrants in the United States. In the meme, six “eradicated diseases” were named: tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, mumps, scarlet fever, …
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Do High Percentages of Refugees Receive Food Stamps, ‘Medicard,’ and Cash Welfare?
In late March 2019, the following meme (archived here) appeared, making three separate and warmed-over claims about “refugees” in the United States and opining, “cut them off”: The Meme The image-based meme provided no citations or links substantiating its claims. Along with a photograph of a group of women wearing burqas, misspelled text read: MIDDLE …
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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 …
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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 …
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Rumors About Caravan of Asylum-Seekers Reach New Heights
As a caravan consisting of thousands of asylum-seekers from Central America drew ever closer to Mexico’s border with the United States to prepare to turn themselves in to border authorities en masse and request asylum, the usual fearmongering suspects did what they do best: whipping up racial hatred with disinformation and propaganda. “Democrat approved migrant …
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Syrian Man in Germany With Four Wives and 22 Children Gets $360,000 Per Year in Welfare?
Rumors based on rough estimations (but without any proof whatsoever) are apparently circulating once again to make a point about refugees.
American Teen Who Killed Muslim Refugee for Raping His Sister Sentenced to Prison-Fiction!
A Facebook post falsely claims that an American teenager who killed a Muslim refugee for raping his 7-year-old sister was sentenced to 30 years in prison.