Did people born outside France or French territories set the Saint-Michel Basilica in Bordeaux on fire in July 2026? No, that's not true: The City of Bordeaux denied that when contacted by Lead Stories. The fire occurred near the church a
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Full Fact→ Grimsby housing development homes aren’t ‘exclusively for immigrants’
Social media posts claiming that Lincolnshire Housing Partnership has bought £23 million worth of new houses on the Ferriby Fields estate in Grimsby exclusively for immigrants are completely false.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Belfast House for Immigrants Burned in 2026 – It’s Ballymena in 2025
Does a video from June 2026 show a fire lit by rioters in Belfast, Northern Ireland after a knife attack incident involving a refugee from Sudan? No, that's not true: The video predates the June 8, 2026, knife attack in Belfast. Video of
PolitiFact→ Brandon Gill – Would Florida US Rep. Maria Salazar’s ‘Dignity Act’ grant mass amnesty to immigrants?
“The Dignity Act is mass amnesty.”
Full Fact→ How many immigrants have arrived in the UK in recent years?
The British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe has sparked debate after claiming in an interview that the UK was being “colonised by immigrants”.
PolitiFact→ Trump leaders say Minnesota officials withhold detained immigrants from ICE. Is that true?
Fact-check: Do Minneapolis and MN cooperate with ICE?
PolitiFact→ JD Vance – JD Vance wrong that Minneapolis ranks No. 1 in unauthorized immigrants.
"Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fake Stories Say Streisand, Farage, Speaker Johnson And Others Said ‘Our country would be safer without Somali immigrants’ — Vietnam-Launched Hoaxes Say Celebrities Targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar
Did Barbra Streisand, British politician Nigel Farage and Kevin Costner each say "Our country would be safer without Somali immigrants -- starting with Ilhan Omar!"? No, that's not true: Nearly identical stories featuring those and other
PolitiFact→ JD Vance – Vice President JD Vance misleads on immigrants’ role in US housing crisis
Housing is expensive “because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants” and because of a housing shortage.
The Dispatch→ Don’t Blame Immigrants for Mamdani’s Win
Debunking claims that immigrant support propelled the new mayor to victory.
PolitiFact→ HHS' Oz says $1 billion of Medicaid funds went to immigrants in US illegally. States disagree
HHS orders state Medicaid find immigrants in US illegally
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Illegal Immigrants In UK Stealing From The Dead — Memorial Tradition In Ukraine Leaves Sweets To Be Taken After Easter
Does a video show illegal immigrants in the UK stealing from the dead by taking things from graves to sell? No, that's not true: The video was first posted by a TikTok account from Ukraine, on April 27, the day the Ukrainian and Eastern O
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Graph Does NOT Prove Immigrants Overpaying For Houses With FHA Loans Inflated U.S. Housing Prices
Does a graph showing "loan locks" for non-permanent residents applying for FHA mortgages prove that immigrants overpaying for homes has inflated U.S. housing prices? No, that's not true: Non-permanent residents who applied for FHA loans w
PolitiFact→ Mike Johnson – Fact-checking Mike Johnson: Do Dems want hospitals paid extra for immigrants versus US citizens?
“As a condition for ending the Democrat shutdown, Democrats want hospitals (to be) paid MORE to treat illegal aliens than American citizens.”
AllSides→ Fact check: Healthcare for illegal immigrants and the government shutdown
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3834141/fact-check-healthcare-illegal-immigrants-government-shutdown/
PolitiFact→ JD Vance – Republicans falsely tie shutdown to Democrats wanting health care for immigrants illegally in the US
“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”
PolitiFact→ Kristi Noem – Fact-checking Kristi Noem that 1.6 million immigrants ‘have gone home voluntarily’
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics show, “We have 1.6 million illegal aliens that have gone home voluntarily.”
News Facts Network→ VP Vance Says California Has Extra House Seats Due to Counting Illegal Immigrants
Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that California has “way more” House seats than it The post VP Vance Says California Has Extra House Seats Due to Counting Illegal Immigrants appeared first on News Facts Network.
News Facts Network→ Trump Orders New Census, Seeks to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has directed the Commerce Department to begin work The post Trump Orders New Census, Seeks to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants appeared first on News Facts Network.
Full Fact→ Are there 1.2 million ‘illegal immigrants’ in the UK?
This widely-circulating figure appears to be based on a think tank estimate that is both out of date and based on flawed methodology. We don’t know with any degree of certainty how many unauthorised migrants are living in the UK.
Full Fact→ Video doesn’t show dog being cooked by immigrants in Dublin
Footage is being shared again on Facebook with misleading captions implying it depicts a dog being barbecued in the Irish capital. It is actually a pig.
News Facts Network→ ICE Arrests Under Trump Shift Toward Non-Criminal Immigrants, Data Shows
Despite tough rhetoric on crime, the Trump administration is arresting a smaller share of violent... The post ICE Arrests Under Trump Shift Toward Non-Criminal Immigrants, Data Shows appeared first on News Facts Network.
FactCheck.org→ Border Czar Makes Misleading Claim About Immigrants With Criminal Records
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, has been repeating the misleading claim that there are “over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal records walking the
News Facts Network→ Trump Administration Grants ICE Access to Medicaid Data to Track Undocumented Immigrants
Under a new data-sharing agreement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be granted access to... The post Trump Administration Grants ICE Access to Medicaid Data to Track Undocumented Immigrants appeared first on News Facts Network.
News Facts Network→ HHS Rescinds Policy Allowing Undocumented Immigrants Access to Certain Federal Benefits
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday it is rescinding a 1998... The post HHS Rescinds Policy Allowing Undocumented Immigrants Access to Certain Federal Benefits appeared first on News Facts Network.
News Facts Network→ Lawsuit Accuses Trump Administration of Racially Targeting Immigrants in Southern California
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses the Trump administration of racially targeting brown-skinned individuals during... The post Lawsuit Accuses Trump Administration of Racially Targeting Immigrants in Southern California appeared first on News
Lead Stories→ What We Know About a Viral Video That Claims ICE is Throwing Deported Immigrants Off Planes and Into the Ocean
Did a TikTok video shared widely in July 2025 accurately claim that shackled bodies found in Europe were deportees from the U.S. that ICE had dropped into the ocean from planes? Here's what we know: Lead Stories has so far found no eviden
News Facts Network→ GOP Crackdown on Immigrants Endangers Elder Care and Staffing Nationwide
Immigrant workers like Jackline Conteh are the backbone of Goodwin House Alexandria, a top-rated nursing... The post GOP Crackdown on Immigrants Endangers Elder Care and Staffing Nationwide appeared first on News Facts Network.
News Facts Network→ Lawsuit Seeks to Block Tennessee Law Criminalizing Aid to Undocumented Immigrants
A federal lawsuit filed Friday aims to block a Tennessee law that would make it...
The Dispatch→ Supreme Court Pauses District Court Order Preventing Immigrants From Being Deported to Third-Party Countries
The plaintiffs in the case are four undocumented immigrants with deportation orders.
PolitiFact→ Rick Scott – Federal funds are not used to enroll undocumented immigrants in Medicaid in New York
Four million more people live in Florida, but New York gets $20 billion more for Medicaid, because it covers illegal immigrants and adults without chronic illness.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: German Ministry Of Health Website Does NOT Tell Immigrant Men Most German Men Will Be Happy To Have Gay Sex With Immigrants
Does the German government publish a sexual education website that includes a cartoon panel saying "Most German men will be happy to have gay sex with immigrants"? No, that's not true: The phrase doesn't appear on the German sex education
PolitiFact→ Gavin Newsom – Newsom championed Medicaid for immigrants in California illegally. Now he wants to cut it back
On California offering affordable health care access for immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Is Trump right that immigrants in U.S. illegally have different due process standards? That’s False
“If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard” for due process.
The Dispatch→ J.D. Vance’s Claims About the Number of Illegal Immigrants in the U.S. Are Exaggerated
No estimates indicate that there are 20 million people in the country illegally.
Full Fact→ ‘Illegal immigrants’ are not entitled to mainstream benefits in the UK
A claim we’ve previously fact checked appears to be recirculating on Facebook.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Muslim Immigrants In England Are NOT The Cause Of Birmingham’s March, 2025 Piles Of Garbage On Streets — There’s A Refuse Worker Strike
Are Muslim immigrants the reason why there are piles of garbage in the neighborhoods of Birmingham, England? No, that's not true: Refuse workers in Birmingham, England, are "taking all out indefinite strike action" starting on March 11, 2
PolitiFact→ Elon Musk – FEMA did not give disaster relief money to New York for luxury hotels for immigrants
“FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants… That money is meant for American disaster relief.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Public Record Colin Powell Said ‘Lazy Immigrants’ Quote
Is former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accurately credited with a "lazy immigrants" quote often shared on social media? No, that's not true: The quote was first published on social media in 2019 by a user on X who acknowledged hav
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, US immigration officials are not paying $750 for turning in immigrants in the U.S. illegally
“ICE has released the tip hotline to turn in illegal immigrants. They paying $750 for each illegal immigrant.”