Latest Fact-Checks In Homeland Security

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Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson
stated on April 26, 2022 Twitter
“Title 42 has fueled the border crisis. In 2019, 7 percent of illegal border crossings were repeated crossings. Today the rate is 27 percent.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • May 17, 2022
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on February 18, 2022 Twitter
The Biden administration has been "recklessly releasing potentially dangerous Afghans into our communities."
Mostly False
By Alan Hovorka • May 13, 2022
Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney
stated on April 1, 2022 a press release
In 2021, “11,201 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Customs and Border Protection, which is enough to kill every American nearly seven times over.”
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • April 27, 2022
Rob Wittman
Rob Wittman
stated on April 8, 2022 a radio interview.
“They’re going to be giving these people who come across the border, giving them smartphones.”
Half-True
By Andy Nguyen, Warren Fiske • April 19, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 11, 2022 a Facebook post
"Joe Biden is giving smartphones away to illegal border crossers.”
Half-True
By Andy Nguyen • April 14, 2022
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on March 25, 2022 a Facebook post
The Biden administration is attempting “to criminalize free speech.”
False
March 31, 2022
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 1, 2021 his documentary series "Patriot Purge"
“Jan. 6 is being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans, disfavored Americans, of their core constitutional rights.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • November 2, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 14, 2021 Instagram posts
Department of Homeland Security “deemed as terrorism” behavior that includes “resisting COVID regulations” and “thinking the election was rigged.”...“In other words, if you are a Trump supporter, you are a terrorist.”
False
October 12, 2021
X posts
X posts
stated on August 30, 2021 on social media
“Near Morgantown, WV, a Moderna shipment truck crashed, hazmat dispatched, airspace shut down and now apparently Emergency Response is claiming the Department of Defense took it over.”
Half-True
By Duncan Slade • September 2, 2021
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 29, 2021 a CNN interview
The Trump administration worked to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
True
By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2021
X posts
X posts
stated on August 19, 2021 in tweets
The bomb threat near the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 19 was a false flag.
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • August 24, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 31, 2021 a Facebook post
Two federal government buses “stopped in front of a Mexican restaurant in the very small town of Green Cove Springs Florida… The passengers were illegal immigrants, straight from the southern border.”
False
By Amy Sherman • August 5, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 16, 2021 a press conference
“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 7, 2021 a Facebook post
Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 15, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2021 a Facebook post
“Joe Biden puts pro-life groups on domestic extremist list, calls pro-life people ‘violent.’”
Mostly False
March 31, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2021 a Facebook post
“We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 29, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 a press conference
Says there was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January, February and March “happens every year.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 25, 2021 press conference
“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2021
Alejandro Mayorkas
Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 21, 2021 in an ABC News interview
The border surge is “challenging” because the immigration system that had been in place for decades “was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on March 14, 2021 a CNN interview
"We saw the increases (of unaccompanied minors at the southern U.S. border) dating back almost a year."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 17, 2021
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