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Did News Media Incorrectly Report That Border Agents Separated a Girl from Her Mother?
Written by:
David Emery
Jun 22, 2018
Mainstream news organizations were criticized for illustrating articles about family separation ...
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Did Melania Trump Wear This Jacket on Her Way to Visit Children Separated from Their Families?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 21, 2018
The First Lady made a surprise visit to detained immigrant children while wearing a jacket beari ...
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Did a Flight Attendant Post an Account of a Redeye Flight Full of Unaccompanied Migrant Children?
Written by:
David Emery
Jun 20, 2018
An anonymous Facebook post described what it was like to accompany sixteen "scared little souls" ...
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Is Stephen Miller a Descendant of Asylum Seekers Who Fled Anti-Semitic Violence?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Jun 20, 2018
The White House senior advisor is the great-grandson of a Jewish immigrant who fled the poverty ...
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Were 9 Parents Deported Under Trump Just Reunited with Their Children?
Written by:
Jordan Liles
Feb 3, 2021
A powerful photograph was shared in a February 2021 tweet that appeared to announce heartwarming ...
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Are Detained Immigrant Children Required to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Written by:
David Emery
Jul 5, 2018
Critics say the requirement forces migrant children to pledge allegiance to a country that separ ...
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Is an 'Obama Don't Separate Me From My Mommy' Protest Sign Real?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Jun 21, 2018
A photograph showing protesters holding a sign is real, but the sign is referring to separations ...
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Were These Children Separated From Their Parents Under Obama?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 21, 2018
A 2014 photograph of unaccompanied minor immigrants is misleadingly being described as showing c ...
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Does This Photograph Show Border Agents Forcibly Separating Children From Families?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Jun 21, 2018
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a federal agent seizing Elián González was recycled nearl ...
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Did This Video Show Obama Agreeing with the Trump Administration on Immigration Policies?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Jun 20, 2018
A video showing former United States President Barack Obama "agreeing" with President Donald Tru ...
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Immigrant Advocates: Trump Executive Order Would 'Replace One Crisis For Another'
Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Jun 20, 2018
Activists say that the president should get no credit for his order requiring undocumented famil ...
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Does the United States Have a Plan to Reunite Children Separated From Parents at the Border?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Jun 19, 2018
Attorneys, politicians, and journalists all describe a bureaucracy unprepared for the challenges ...
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Is This Audio of Detained Children Crying for Their Parents?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 19, 2018
ProPublica published a surreptitious recording of distressed immigrant children inside an unname ...
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Does a Specific Law Mandate Family Separation and Detention of Minors?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 19, 2018
As public debate over the policy of separating families at the border continued, rumors appeared ...
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Were Gun-Toting Children Photographed on the United States Border?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Jun 18, 2018
The Drudge Report used a years-old photograph of children in Syria holding toy guns without cred ...
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Are Children Being Assigned Numbers in Detention Centers?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 18, 2018
Viral posts on social media contain claims that immigrant children are receiving numbers like Ho ...
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Was the 'Law to Separate Families' Passed in 1997 or 'by Democrats'?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 18, 2018
There is no federal law mandating children and parents be separated at the border; a policy resu ...
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Is the Trump Administration Putting Immigrant Children in 'Tent Cities'?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 15, 2018
Multiple news outlets reported that the Department of Health and Human Services is planning tent ...
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Did Jeff Sessions Say 'If We Inflict Fear and Pain on Children, Adults Won’t Want to Come Here'?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 14, 2018
A quote widely attributed to the Attorney General appeared to stem from a viral video shared by ...
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Are More Than 10,000 Children in U.S. Detention Centers?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Jun 8, 2018
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that 10,773 unaccompanied immigrant childr ...
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