Homeland Security

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0% 36 Checks
mostly-true
0% 62 Checks
Half True
0% 77 Checks
mostly-false
0% 63 Checks
false
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Pants on Fire
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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
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 in a tweet:
“More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in 2019 under Trump.”
Mostly True
By Megan Bevins, Pearse Costello • October 3, 2022
Alex Mooney
Alex Mooney
stated on August 29, 2022 in a tweet:
“There have now been 16 straight months of OVER 150,000 illegal border crossings.”
Mostly True
By Eleanor Kenneweg, Maxwell Bruce • October 3, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 21, 2022 in 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.”
False
September 30, 2022
Adam Laxalt
Adam Laxalt
stated on August 8, 2022 in 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.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 31, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2022 in an image shared on Facebook:
The FBI “spent more time investigating” the Jan. 6 Capitol attack than 9/11.
Pants on Fire!
August 30, 2022
Tomi Lahren
Tomi Lahren
stated on July 25, 2022 in a tweet:
“Biden wants to give illegals ID cards so they can start collecting American benefits.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 5, 2022
Mark Brnovich
Mark Brnovich
stated on May 23, 2022 in a tweet:
Increased encounters at the southwest border in April 2022 compared to April 2020 are attributable to changes in border policy.
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 2, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on May 24, 2022 in un tuit:
ICE está en Uvalde, Texas, “entonces los padres indocumentados tienen que temer la deportación antes de verificar si sus hijos están vivos".
False
By Nusaiba Mizan • May 26, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on May 24, 2022 in 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.”
False
By Nusaiba Mizan • May 25, 2022
James Lankford
James Lankford
stated on May 4, 2022 in 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
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