Republicans are promising to complete a wall along the southern border, but doing so isn’t so simple.
Publication: mexico
The Dispatch→ SCOTUS Gives POTUS a Policy Pass
The justices say Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge the Biden administration’s immigration policy.
Logically→ No, an alleged Gulf Cartel member was not pictured carrying a U.S.-made Javelin missile launcher
The Dispatch→ The Biden Administration’s New Border Plan, Explained
Migrants are allowed to enter the United States at the Chaparral pedestrian border on May 16, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico. (Photo by Carlos A. Moreno/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)The president’s new strategy relies on Latin America to relieve immigra
Logically→ An old image of a migrants’ caravan in Mexico is being shared as a recent photograph from the U.S. border
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Video Shows the Wrong Border Fence
A picture of Melilla, at the border between Morocco and Spain, taken on June 25, 2022. (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images) A video clip is circulating online showing a border fence overwhelmed by hundreds of people trying to climb to the other
The Dispatch→ A Brewing Crisis in Mexico
Thousands of demonstrators gather in Mexico City to protest against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's plan to reform the electoral authority. (Photo by Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Budget cuts to the agency that oversees elect
Logically→ Photo shows a huge crowd gathered outside Lahore airport to welcome PML-N leader Maryam Sharif back to Pakistan.
Logically→ Video of retaliation between Mexican security forces and Sinaloa cartel after Ovidio Guzmán’s arrest in January 2023.
Old footage of a clash between Mexican security forces with a crime group is being falsely linked to the recent unrest after Guzmán's arrest.
Logically→ An ancient Meso-American artifact closely resembles Batman.
This image shows an sculpture created in 2014 that has frequently been misrepresented as an ancient artwork.
Logically→ Lionel Messi wiped the floor with a Mexico jersey after winning a match in the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022.
A video of Argentinian skipper Messi inadvertently kicking a Mexico jersey is being shared with a misleading claim that he "wiped the floor" with it.
Snopes→ 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Mexico, 2 Dead
A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Mexico, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting off landslides.
Snopes→ Mexico’s Earthquake Coincidence Drives Anxiety for Many
Three powerful earthquakes have struck Mexico on Sept. 19 — in 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The unlucky coincidence has driven anxiety high for many.
Snopes→ Strong Earthquake Shakes Mexico´s Pacific Coast; 1 Killed
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.
Snopes→ ‘El Jefe’ the Jaguar, Famed in US, Photographed in Mexico
They call him “El Jefe,” he is at least 12 years old, and his crossing of the heavily guarded U.S.-Mexico border has sparked celebrations on both sides.
Snopes→ Biden Administration Says ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy is Over
The Department of Homeland Security said that it ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.
Snopes→ Mexico’s Capture of Drug Kingpin Could Be Signal to US
Three days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and U.S. President Joe Biden met in the White House, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's most wanted target was in Mexican custody.
Snopes→ Mexico Scientist Pleads Guilty to Spying for Russia in Miami
A prominent Mexican scientist who led a double life with two families on separate continents pleaded guilty to a charge of being co-opted by Russian agents into surveilling a U.S. government informant residing in Miami.
Snopes→ US Suspends Mexican Avocado Imports on Eve of Super Bowl
Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat.
Snopes→ Vicente Fernández, Revered Mexican Singer, Dies at 81
His music attracted fans far beyond Mexico’s borders.
Snopes→ 2 Dead in Dramatic Shootout Near Upscale Mexican Resorts
A commando of drug gang gunmen stormed ashore at a beach on Mexico's resort-studded Caribbean coast in front of luxury hotels and executed two drug dealers from a rival gang.
Truth or Fiction?→ DHS Report Confirms Border Officials’ Surveillance Against Journalists and Activists
Federal officials say border authorities wrongfully conducted surveillance against journalists and activists crossing between the United States and Mexico — but the United States stopped short of commenting on whether they broke the law in doing
Snopes→ Mexico to Give Away ‘El Chapo’ Safehouse in Lottery
The house former drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán fled in 2014 when Mexican marines had him surrounded underwent some changes recently as the Mexican government prepared to give it away in a national lottery.
Snopes→ Powerful Earthquake Near Mexico’s Acapulco Kills at Least 1
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7 and was centered 17 kilometers (about 10 miles) northeast of Acapulco.
Snopes→ Mexico’s Supreme Court Rules That Abortion is Not a Crime
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila that had made abortion a criminal act.
Snopes→ Mexico Bid to Sell Presidential Jet Stretches into 3rd Year
Ever since he took office, the president has vowed to sell off the plane because it is too luxurious.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Ted Cruz Blame ‘Cancel Culture’ For his Mexico Trip?
As the anger toward right-wing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz led to widespread criticism and ridicule for deserting his Texas constituents amid historically harsh winter conditions in February 2021 and attempting to blame his daughters for his decision, parodie
Poynter→ Mexican fact-checker offers advice on how to handle a change of executive power
Mexican fact-checkers say consistency, transparency and humility helped them maintain credibility with their audience after executive power shifted in their country in 2018. As America prepares for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Jorge R
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Joe Biden Say ‘I’m Gonna Take on Those Rapist Mexicans’ During a Rally?
On October 30 2020, TikTok user @camarocuddy shared what appeared to be footage of former U.S. Vice President and Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden saying, “I’m gonna take on those rapist Mexicans”: @camarocuddyJoe
Truth or Fiction?→ Is Donald Trump Deleting Anti-Immigrant Tweets?
As several mass shootings within just days of one another left the United States reeling, the ideologies of the shooters began to come under scrutiny for possible ties to sites that specialize in radicalizing disaffected young men into violent white
Truth or Fiction?→ Does Video Show Seesaws on Both Sides of the Border Wall?
On July 29 2019, the Facebook page “Jolt Texas” shared a video (archived here), stating that “[artists] installed seesaws at the border wall” so that “kids in the U.S. and Mexico could play together”: The clip r
Snopes→ Migrants Fearful after Hundreds Arrested in Mexico Raid
Mexican immigration authorities said 371 people were detained in one day.
Truth or Fiction?→ Underground Railroad to Mexico?
On February 13 2019, a Facebook user shared a screenshot of a tweet, originally tweeted a day earlier by @HISTORY about a purported version of the Underground Railroad running south to Mexico: Text for the tweet read: Slaveholders knew that enslaved p
Snopes→ Did Mexican Authorities Arrest and Torture a U.S. Marine for Accidentally Crossing the Border?
A viral tweet over-simplified a complicated 2014 episode in the context of the 2018 "migrant caravan."
Truth or Fiction?→ Are Asylum-Seekers Writing Numbers on Their Arms at the United States Border?
Amid stories of unarmed adults and children getting teargassed over an international border by United States forces, infants being taken from their parents, and asylum-seekers being concentrated in detention camps, yet another image appeared to evoke a
Snopes→ Trump Joins Leaders of Canada, Mexico to Sign New Trade Pact
President Donald Trump joined the leaders of Canada and Mexico at a global meeting in Argentina to sign a revised North American trade pact, fulfilling a longstanding political promise with a deal he celebrated as a "groundbreaking achievement."
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Teargas Used ‘Once a Month’ at the Border Under the Obama Administration?
The days following a cross-border chemical attack by American forces on unarmed members of a caravan of men, women, and children from Central America across the border with Mexico were filled with disinformation and outright propaganda as people and or
Truth or Fiction?→ Were Photographs Showing the United States Firing Teargas at a Crowd in Mexico ‘Staged’?
On November 25th, 2018, at the tail end of the long Thanksgiving weekend in the United States, the United States government closed down the San Ysidro port of entry — one of the busiest land crossings in the world — into and out of Mexico. When a g
Truth or Fiction?→ Is a Caravan of Central American Asylum-Seekers Demanding Special Treatment?
An annual caravan of people traveling from Central America to the United States to seek asylum and refuge from extreme violence in their home countries has been beset by falsehoods, lies, and disinformation from start to finish — from baseless claim
Truth or Fiction?→ Are Members of a Refugee Caravan Defiling American Flags on Their Way to the United States?
An annual caravan heading from Central America to the southern United States border to seek asylum has been beset by rumors, misinformation, and dramatic disinformation during the 2018 election cycle. Participants in the annual event are generally fro