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Articles tagged: syrian refugees 19 Total

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Sgt. Gregory Hayes Killed Two Syrian Refugees for Raping His Daughter?

Updated A popular meme proclaimed that Sgt. Gregory Hayes beat a pair of Syrian refugees to death for raping his teenaged daughter, but we found no record Hayes even exists.

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CNN Used the Same Girl in Three Different Refugee Crisis Pictures?

Updated A variation on the 'crisis actor' conspiracy theory holds that CNN used photographs of the same girl to represent three different refugee crises.

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Does a ‘Muslim Migrant’ with Four Wives, 23 Children Receive $390,000 a Year in Benefits?

9 May 2017 Reports that a Syrian refugee was receiving close to $400,000 annually were based on incomplete information.

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Did a Dr. Seuss WWII Political Cartoon Criticize America’s Isolationism?

Updated Dr. Seuss created a number of biting political cartoons during WWII, including a cartoon criticizing American indifference to the deaths of foreign children.

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Three Syrian Refugees Assault 5-Year-Old Girl at Knifepoint?

20 June 2016 An event involving children that occurred in Twin Falls, Idaho, was widely reported in inaccurate fashion.

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Obama Took $2.6B from Veterans for Syrian Refugees

25 April 2016 President Obama did not cut $2.6 billion from programs for veterans and instead give a like amount to support Syrian refugees in the U.S.

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2015: A Year in Fear

31 December 2015 The topics buzzed about in the online rumor mill in 2015 included some major recurring themes.

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American Frag

20 November 2015 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan was born in Virginia, and was neither "vetted" nor ever a refugee.

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Jobs Market

19 November 2015 Steve Jobs' biological father was a Syrian-born man who once fled political unrest in his native country; but he appears to have entered the U.S. as an immigrant, not a refugee.

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Whom at the Inn

18 November 2015 A photograph supposedly documenting that asylum seekers stayed in hotels while American vets remained homeless was actually taken in England.

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Hand Vestures

17 November 2015 A photograph of protesting "Muslim women" was taken in Tehran in 2013, not the United States in 2015.

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1938 Harvard Crimson Poll on ‘Jewish Refugees’

17 November 2015 Social media users shared a 1938 Harvard Crimson poll about Holocaust refugees, but the newfound article lacked some pertinent historical context.

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Did the Boston Marathon Bombers Enter the U.S. as Refugees?

17 November 2015 The Boston Marathon bombing perpetrators were often described as refugees, but their family actually entered the U.S. on tourist visas.

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Damascus via Durham

16 November 2015 Syrian refugees didn't settle in Winston-Salem recently; an article describing their arrival is from September 2014.

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Refugee Champs

16 November 2015 A Facebook rumor claims images depict "starving" refugees from Syria just entering the U.S., but the pictures were actually taken in Australia back in 2013.