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Publication: Immigration
Snopes→ Is the Trump Administration Making Immigrants Pay $800 for DNA Tests to Get Their Children Back?
A handful of parents in Texas said they were told by social workers they would have to pay for DNA testing to be reunified with separated immigrant children.
Snopes→ Judge Temporarily Halts Deportation of Reunified Families
The Trump administration is due back in court to discuss a plan reunify more than 2,500 children who were separated at the border from their parents.
Snopes→ Has the Trump Administration Launched an Immigrant ‘Denaturalization’ Task Force?
In June 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced they were staffing a new office targeting naturalized citizens who cheated on their applications.
Snopes→ Judge Warns Against ‘Piecemeal’ Court Rulings On Immigration
Judges in recent months have ruled on the Trump administration's push for a border wall with Mexico and its move to revoke an Obama-era program protecting young immigrants from deportation.
Snopes→ Are Detained Immigrant Children Required to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Critics say the requirement forces migrant children to pledge allegiance to a country that separated them from their families.
Snopes→ Did the Obama Administration Grant Citizenship to 2,500 Iranians During Nuclear Deal Negotiations?
We found no evidence the Obama administration gave preferential treatment to the 23,000-plus Iranian-born people who gained citizenship or legal permanent status in 2015.
Snopes→ Do Children in Immigration Proceedings Have No Right to Court-Appointed Representation?
A June 2018 news report accurately described the controversial reality of children facing deportation proceedings without legal representation.
Snopes→ Did Maxine Waters Call for an ‘Illegal Immigrant’ to Be the Next Supreme Court Justice?
A hyperpartisan Facebook page shared an edited image from a real interview by the California congresswoman.
Snopes→ Did Barack Obama Oversee the Separation of 89,000 Children From Their Parents?
A right-wing Facebook page publishes a grossly misleading meme that compares the immigration policies of the 44th and 45th presidents.
Snopes→ Was The Golden State Fence Company Fined $5 Million For Hiring Undocumented Workers to Build a Border Wall?
A years-old story about a construction company was incorrectly presented as if the company was building a border wall pushed by United States President Donald Trump.
Snopes→ Trump Administration Asks the Pentagon to House Immigrant Families on Military Sites
Meanwhile, the federal government has not answered questions about how it will comply with an injunction ordering authorities to return children taken from their families under "zero tolerance."
Snopes→ Did 80 Percent of Undocumented Minors Arrive in the United States Without Parents?
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.
Truth or Fiction?→ Lennie Reisch’s Facebook Post on Immigration, Child Separations-Authorship Confirmed!
Lennie Reisch’s Facebook Post on Immigration, Child Separations-Authorship Confirmed! Summary of eRumor: A Houston woman named Lennie Reisch posted on Facebook about her journey to America as an unaccompanied minor from Cuba amid controversy over
Snopes→ Are Canadian Citizens Now Subject to a Search of their Phones at the United States Border?
In late June 2018, a web site resurrected half-year-old news about rare, but real, phone searches at the Canadian border.
Snopes→ Judge Orders Border Agencies to Reunite Separated Families Within 30 Days
The deadline for returning children younger than five to their parents is even shorter, under U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw's ruling.
Snopes→ HHS: Reunification of Migrant Children With Detained Parents Will Mean Prolonged Child Detention
Health and Human Services officials said they will reunite children with detained parents if Congress lifts a 20-day limit on child detention.
Snopes→ Christian Non-Profit Faces Scrutiny Over Government Foster Care Contract for Separated Children
Bethany Christian Services, which has links to the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has fostered out at least 81 children taken from their parents at the U.S. border.
Washington Post→ President Trump’s misconceptions about immigration courts and law
“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and O
Snopes→ Did a Christian Foster Care Provider ‘Kidnap’ Migrant Children for Profit?
Reports and viral memes made several claims about Bethany Christian Services and its purported links to education secretary Betsy DeVos.
Snopes→ Have Undocumented Immigrants Killed 63,000 American Citizens Since 11 September 2001?
The figure would mean undocumented immigrants, who account for roughly 3 percent of the population, would have to commit about one quarter of the nation's homicides.
Snopes→ Did an Oregon Department of Transportation Employee Say That Immigrants Should be ‘Shot at the Border’?
Lori McAllen has faced a backlash after screenshots emerged of her calling for immigrants to be shot during an online debate over the Trump administration's immigration policy.
Snopes→ Is the Trump Administration Paying Southwest Key $458 Million to Run Immigrant Child Detention Centers?
Southwest Key's chief executive officer earned an annual salary of $1.5 million in 2016.
Snopes→ Is an ‘Obama Don’t Separate Me From My Mommy’ Protest Sign Real?
A 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.
Snopes→ Were These Children Separated From Their Parents Under Obama?
A 2014 photograph of unaccompanied minor immigrants is misleadingly being described as showing children separated from their parents by the Obama administration.
Truth or Fiction?→ Bill Clinton’s 1996 Immigration Law Behind Child Separations-Fiction!
Bill Clinton’s 1996 Immigration Law is to Blame for Child Separations-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Bill Clinton’s 1996 (or 1997) immigration law is to blame for a federal policy that separates immigrant children from their parents at the bor
Snopes→ Does This Photograph Show Border Agents Forcibly Separating Children From Families?
A 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.
Washington Post→ Fact-checking claims about Trump’s plan to stop family separations
A new executive order signed by President Trump lays out steps to end the separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. We see this as a tacit admission by the Trump administration that many of its previous claims about family
Snopes→ Did a Flight Attendant Post an Account of a Redeye Flight Full of Unaccompanied Migrant Children?
An 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.
Snopes→ Is Stephen Miller a Descendant of Asylum Seekers Who Fled Anti-Semitic Violence?
The 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.
Snopes→ Did This Video Show Obama Agreeing with the Trump Administration on Immigration Policies?
A video showing former United States President Barack Obama "agreeing" with President Donald Trump on immigration is deceptively edited.
Snopes→ Did Peter Fonda Suggest That Barron Trump Should Be Kidnapped?
The actor has apologized for saying Donald Trump's 12-year-old son should be put in "a cage with pedophiles" as a protest against the president's immigration policy.
Snopes→ Immigrant Advocates: Trump Executive Order Would ‘Replace One Crisis For Another’
Activists say that the president should get no credit for his order requiring undocumented families to be detained together.
Snopes→ Are Immigrant Children Separated From Their Families Being Forcibly Sedated?
A lawsuit filed in April 2018, compiled before a new family separation policy was instituted, alleges that child detainees are injected with drugs against their will.
Snopes→ Did Methodists Bring Church Charges Against Jeff Sessions?
Hundreds of the Attorney General's fellow church-members signed a letter claiming his "zero-tolerance" immigration policy had harmed "thousands of vulnerable humans."
Snopes→ Did the Obama Administration Place Immigrant Children With Human Traffickers?
A congressional report and criminal indictment resulted from a 2014 incident in which multiple immigrant children were handed off to a human trafficking ring.
Washington Post→ President Trump’s claim that crime is up in Germany
“Crime in Germany is up 10% plus (officials do not want to report these crimes) since migrants were accepted. Others countries are even worse. Be smart America!” — President Trump, in a tweet, June 19, 2018 “Crime in Germany is way
Snopes→ Does the United States Have a Plan to Reunite Children Separated From Parents at the Border?
Attorneys, politicians, and journalists all describe a bureaucracy unprepared for the challenges of reuniting large numbers of children forcibly separated from their parents
Washington Post→ The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border
“I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats have to change their law. That’s their law.” — President Trump, in remarks to reporters at the White House, June 15, 2018 “We have the worst immigration laws in the entire world
Snopes→ South Texas Deputy Arrested on Allegation of Child Sexual Assault
The sheriff's deputy threatened the child's mother with deportation if she reported him, authorities said.