Homeland Security

Scorecard

True
0% 36 Checks
Mostly True
0% 62 Checks
Half True
0% 0 Checks
Mostly False
0% 63 Checks
False
0% 100 Checks
Pants on Fire
0% 29 Checks
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All Fact-checks for Homeland Security

Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 9, 2024 in a video on Facebook:
Drones reported in the U.S., including around the U.S. Capitol, have directed-energy weapons that have a “space-based laser generating system that can create pestilence.”
False
December 17, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 29, 2024 in an Instagram post:
The FBI admitted that Venezuela emptied its prisons and sent the inmates to the U.S.
False
April 4, 2024
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 29, 2024 in a press release:
“TSA found with metal detectors nearly 7,000 firearms at airports last year — an all-time high.”
Mostly True
By David Scibilia • February 21, 2024
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on January 19, 2024 in an impeachment hearing:
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' border policy is "personally responsible" for fentanyl crossing the border
False
By Bayliss Wagner • February 12, 2024
Asa Hutchinson
Asa Hutchinson
stated on December 11, 2023 in comments at Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire:
China is allowed to do crypto mining in the U.S.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Rebecca Catalanello • December 15, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2023 in a Truth Social post:
“The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 12, 2023
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on September 22, 2023 in a TikTok video:
“Joe Biden grants voting rights to 500,000 invaders.”
False
September 26, 2023
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on May 15, 2023 in a TikTok video:
"Chinese communist” troops on the ground at U.S. southern border.
False
May 19, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 5, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“‘Satellites’ are on balloons and not in space.”
Pants on Fire!
By Sara Swann • February 7, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 9, 2022 in a post:
Video shows Sen. John Kennedy telling Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, “You will be impeached.”
False
By Gabrielle Settles • December 15, 2022
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