Both the White House and Attorney General have used (and misused) a rudimentary and unverifiable statistic in order to downplay their roles in the family separation crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
A 2014 photograph of unaccompanied minor immigrants is misleadingly being described as showing children separated from their parents by the Obama administration.
As public debate over the policy of separating families at the border continued, rumors appeared blaming the practice on Public Law 107-296.
There is no federal law mandating children and parents be separated at the border; a policy resulting in that outcome was enacted in May 2018.
Multiple news outlets reported that the Department of Health and Human Services is planning tent cities to accommodate a recent influx of immigrant children — but the practice is not new.
Parents who come forward to claim custody of children will have their fingerprints and immigration status inspected by ICE.
An alarmist article about what the United States is purportedly doing with people showing up at its southern border bears little resemblance to the facts.
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Company spokesperson: "Chick-fil-A restaurants are individually owned and operated, so wage decisions are made at the local level."
A spurious quote attributed to actor/comedian Tim Allen was shared by one of President Donald Trump's sons.
Memes comparing Tanya McDowell to various school-related criminal cases surface frequently.
Images contrasting the sentencings of white swimmers with that of homeless mother Tanya McDowell depicted perceived inequality in the criminal-justice system.