Latest Fact Checks By Miriam Valverde

Ron DeSantis’ misleading claim about crime, police funding

By Miriam Valverde

May 4, 2021

“If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up."

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Fact-checking claim about the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19

By Miriam Valverde

April 23, 2021

"Mountains of data" show drug ivermectin "basically obliterates" COVID-19 transmission.

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Facebook post makes false claim about a lockdown, open borders

By Miriam Valverde

April 15, 2021

Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.”

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Border barrier wasn’t 90% finished when Biden halted construction

By Miriam Valverde

March 29, 2021

“We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.”

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Fact-checking Joe Biden’s stats on children arriving at the border

By Miriam Valverde

March 26, 2021

Says there was a “28% increase in children to the border in my administration” and “31% … in 2019.” The increase in migration in January,…

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Fact-checking Joe Biden’s claim about families at the border

By Miriam Valverde

March 25, 2021

“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”

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What Donald Trump omits in his attack on Joe Biden about border security

By Amy Sherman , Miriam Valverde

March 24, 2021

"We proudly handed the Biden administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot.”

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Fact-checking claim about Trump administration changes to the immigration system

By Miriam Valverde

March 24, 2021

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.”

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Did the increase of children arriving at the border start under Trump or Biden?

By Miriam Valverde

March 17, 2021

"We saw the increases (of unaccompanied minors at the southern U.S. border) dating back almost a year."

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Fact-checking Florida attorney general on Biden’s immigration detainer policy

By Miriam Valverde

March 12, 2021

Says the Biden administration is canceling immigration detainers and “requiring our law enforcement leaders to release” serious criminal offenders.

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Kansas senator leaves out context in claim about transgender athletes

By Miriam Valverde

March 9, 2021

A study “suggests that even after two years of hormone therapy, biological boys still maintain significant advantages over girls, including being 12% faster on the…

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In CPAC return, Trump falsely claims Biden halted ‘all deportations’

By Miriam Valverde

March 1, 2021

Says Joe Biden “has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.”

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