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 civil suit against Donald Trump alleging he raped a 13-year-old girl was dismissed in California in May 2016, refiled in New York in June 2016, and dropped again in November 2016.
U.S. President Donald Trump's use of force to clear an area in front of a church occupied by protesters drew comparisons to world dictators.
Predictions are typically made prior to the event they are predicting.
The photographer described the image as "the most impactful picture I have ever taken."
Junk news in, junk news out.