U.S. immigration officials recorded more than 2 million encounters with immigrants at the southwest border in the fiscal year that ended in September. Some people have used this data to spread the white supremacist “great replacement theory” — a conspiracy theory holding that Democrats and Western elites are deliberately using immigration to “replace” white people […]
Republicans have praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recent decision to use taxpayer money to fly two planes of Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Florida to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Meanwhile, in Congress, some GOP lawmakers have raised flags about Venezuelan immigrants at the southern border, citing an alleged Department of Homeland Security report saying the […]
The threat of misinformation is ever present, and the fast-approaching midterm elections are a breeding ground for misleading narratives to spread on social media. That’s especially true for Latinos in the United States who speak only Spanish. There aren’t as many Spanish-speaking journalists and media outlets in the U.S., and social media companies invest fewer […]
Whether President Joe Biden is doing enough to limit illegal immigration is a key issue raised by Republicans this midterm election cycle. To draw attention to the topic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew around 50 immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Sept. 14 — surprising local officials and making them scramble to accommodate the group. […]
As the November midterm elections near, political candidates and TV ads are pushing inaccurate and misleading claims about immigration. And according to an NPR/Ipsos poll, a significant number of Americans believe these falsehoods. About 1,000 adults in the U.S. were asked whether they believed a variety of claims about immigration, including whether there was an […]
Después de que el Representante Charlie Crist asegurara su nominación como el candidato demócrata para la gubernatura de Florida, el Partido Republicano del estado transmitió un anuncio atacando el apoyo de Crist hacia el Presidente Joe Biden. El anuncio político de 30 segundos, el cual fue publicado en español e inglés, liga a Crist con […]
After U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist clinched the Democratic gubernatorial nomination for Florida governor, the Republican Party of Florida aired an ad bashing his support of President Joe Biden. The 30-second ad, which aired in English and Spanish, tied Crist to Biden on crime and new money for the IRS. “Charlie Crist thinks Joe Biden is […]
In the last month, Congress passed a bill addressing climate change, health care and corporate taxation; the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s residence, Mar-a-Lago, for classified documents; and PolitiFact looked into the shortage of poll workers ahead of November’s midterm elections. Our fact-checking and analysis on these topics prompted comments from many of our […]
When Kari Lake took the stage on election night Aug. 2 in Arizona, partial results showed her leading. But she cast Arizona’s elections as corrupt. “Why are we in this?” Lake asked. “We are in this because of the corruption, and we need somebody who is honest to turn it around. We knew our elections […]
After many months, Customs and Border Protection released findings from an investigation of a Sept. 19, 2021, incident in which Border Patrol agents on horseback pursued Haitian migrants as they crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas. Photos and videos of the incident went viral, drawing national attention. In a […]
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Biden administration could end “Remain in Mexico,” a Trump-era program that sent some migrants seeking asylum to Mexico to await their immigration court proceedings. The decision is a victory for the government, but the ruling also limits the power of lower federal courts in other immigration cases, leading […]
As laws restricting abortion snap into place across at least 18 states after the June 24 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, people have taken to social media to question whether this decision will limit access to the treatment for ectopic pregnancies. A Facebook post claimed “the treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is […]