Judge Orders Border Agencies to Reunite Separated Families Within 30 Days
27 June 2018The deadline for returning children younger than five to their parents is even shorter, under U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw's ruling.
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Did News Media Incorrectly Report That Border Agents Separated a Girl from Her Mother?
19 August 2018Mainstream news organizations were criticized for illustrating articles about family separation at the border with a photograph of a crying child who was in fact never separated from her mother.
Is an ‘Obama Don’t Separate Me From My Mommy’ Protest Sign Real?
21 June 2018A photograph showing protesters holding a sign is real, but the sign is referring to separations due to the deportation of family members in the United States rather than forcibly separating families at the border.
Did Melania Trump Wear This Jacket on Her Way to Visit Children Separated from Their Families?
21 June 2018The First Lady made a surprise visit to detained immigrant children while wearing a jacket bearing the message "I DON'T REALLY CARE DO U?" on the back.
Were These Children Separated From Their Parents Under Obama?
21 June 2018A 2014 photograph of unaccompanied minor immigrants is misleadingly being described as showing children separated from their parents by the Obama administration.
Does This Photograph Show Border Agents Forcibly Separating Children From Families?
21 June 2018A Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a federal agent seizing Elián González was recycled nearly twenty years later with a misleading caption in the wake of a family separation scandal.
Did a Flight Attendant Post an Account of a Redeye Flight Full of Unaccompanied Migrant Children?
21 June 2018An anonymous Facebook post described what it was like to accompany sixteen "scared little souls" on a cross-country flight to a detention facility in the middle of the night.
Is Stephen Miller a Descendant of Asylum Seekers Who Fled Anti-Semitic Violence?
21 June 2018The White House senior advisor is the great-grandson of a Jewish immigrant who fled the poverty and pogroms of the Russian Empire in the early 1900s.
Did This Video Show Obama Agreeing with the Trump Administration on Immigration Policies?
20 June 2018A video showing former United States President Barack Obama "agreeing" with President Donald Trump on immigration is deceptively edited.
Immigrant Advocates: Trump Executive Order Would ‘Replace One Crisis For Another’
20 June 2018Activists say that the president should get no credit for his order requiring undocumented families to be detained together.
Does the United States Have a Plan to Reunite Children Separated From Parents at the Border?
19 June 2018Attorneys, politicians, and journalists all describe a bureaucracy unprepared for the challenges of reuniting large numbers of children forcibly separated from their parents.
Is This Audio of Detained Children Crying for Their Parents?
19 June 2018ProPublica published a surreptitious recording of distressed immigrant children inside an unnamed detention facility.
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Did U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar Marry Her Brother?
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Is U.S. Actor Sam Elliott Really Dead?
15 July 2019A frequent producer of junk news managed to trick some readers into believing that the popular actor had died in July 2019.
Did U.S. Women’s Soccer Player Give Nazi Salute Outside Holocaust Museum?
15 July 2019The photo was shared by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan with a message congratulating the team for its World Cup win.
Did Rep. Ilhan Omar Say ‘White Men Should Be Put in Chains’?
19 November 2018A widely-shared meme offered a malicious quotation attributed to the Minnesota Democrat.
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