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Facebook posts
stated on December 9, 2024 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.”

By Madison Czopek • December 17, 2024

Instagram posts
stated on March 29, 2024 an Instagram post

The FBI admitted that Venezuela emptied its prisons and sent the inmates to the U.S.

April 4, 2024

Charles Schumer
stated on January 29, 2024 a press release

“TSA found with metal detectors nearly 7,000 firearms at airports last year — an all-time high.”

By David Scibilia • February 21, 2024

Michael McCaul
stated on January 19, 2024 an impeachment hearing

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' border policy is "personally responsible" for fentanyl crossing the border

By Bayliss Wagner • February 12, 2024

Asa Hutchinson
stated on December 11, 2023 comments at Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire

China is allowed to do crypto mining in the U.S.

By Louis Jacobson, Rebecca Catalanello • December 15, 2023

Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2023 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.”

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 12, 2023

TikTok posts
stated on September 22, 2023 a TikTok video

“Joe Biden grants voting rights to 500,000 invaders.”

By Madison Czopek • September 26, 2023

TikTok posts
stated on May 15, 2023 a TikTok video

"Chinese communist” troops on the ground at U.S. southern border.

May 19, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on February 5, 2023 an Instagram post

“‘Satellites’ are on balloons and not in space.”

By Sara Swann • February 7, 2023

Facebook posts
stated on December 9, 2022 a post

Video shows Sen. John Kennedy telling Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, “You will be impeached.”

By Gabrielle Settles • December 15, 2022

West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 a tweet

“More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in 2019 under Trump.”

By Megan Bevins, Pearse Costello • October 3, 2022

Alex Mooney
stated on August 29, 2022 a tweet

“There have now been 16 straight months of OVER 150,000 illegal border crossings.”

By Eleanor Kenneweg, Maxwell Bruce • October 3, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on August 21, 2022 an Instagram post

“America now has a government that forbids border agents from using deadly force, but is training IRS agents to use SWAT-team tactics on law-abiding citizens.”

September 30, 2022

Adam Laxalt
stated on August 8, 2022 a statement

The public health order Title 42 is "the last tool Border Patrol has to stop the overwhelming flood of illegal immigrants pouring into our country.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 31, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2022 an image shared on Facebook

The FBI “spent more time investigating” the Jan. 6 Capitol attack than 9/11.

By Madison Czopek • August 30, 2022

Tomi Lahren
stated on July 25, 2022 a tweet

“Biden wants to give illegals ID cards so they can start collecting American benefits.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 5, 2022

Mark Brnovich
stated on May 23, 2022 a tweet

Increased encounters at the southwest border in April 2022 compared to April 2020 are attributable to changes in border policy.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 2, 2022

X posts
stated on May 24, 2022 un tuit

ICE está en Uvalde, Texas, “entonces los padres indocumentados tienen que temer la deportación antes de verificar si sus hijos están vivos".

By Nusaiba Mizan • May 26, 2022

X posts
stated on May 24, 2022 a tweet

ICE is in Uvalde, Texas, “so undocumented parents have to consider arrest deportation before they go check to see if their kids are alive.”

By Nusaiba Mizan • May 25, 2022

James Lankford
stated on May 4, 2022 a Senate hearing

“The vast majority of individuals that we’re releasing out are not showing up for hearings.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 17, 2022

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