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Latest Fact-Checks In Homeland Security

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James Lankford
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.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 17, 2022
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
By Jeff Cercone • 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
By Noah Y. Kim • 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
By Tom Kertscher • 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
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