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."
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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.
Snopes→ Is the Red Hen Located at 666 E. Washington?
Hacked Google Reviews and manufactured Yelp pages led some to believe that the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia had a "Satanic" address.
Snopes→ Was Joe Biden Refused Service at ‘Crumb and Get It’ in 2012?
A Virginia cookie shop declined to host a media event with the former U.S. vice president during a campaign stop in 2012.
Snopes→ Did Harley Davidson’s CEO Call President Trump ‘a Moron’?
Matthew Levatich was accused of calling Donald Trump a "moron" after the president objected to the company moving some operations to Thailand.
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→ Did Anti-Trump Protesters Call For Republicans to Be Assassinated?
Hyperpartisan web sites used shoddy image editing to spread inflammatory disinformation.
Snopes→ Did 233 Representatives Vote to ‘Steal’ Social Security’s $2.9 Trillion Surplus?
Claims that lawmakers voted to spend a Social Security surplus to pay off government debt stem from an alarmist account of a failed balanced budget amendment.
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→ Was Obama Ranked ‘Worst President Since World War II’ in a New Poll?
An outdated poll from 2014 was drastically misrepresented by a number of right-wing sites and pundits, none of whom appear to have correctly sourced their claim.
Snopes→ Did Melania Trump’s Controversial Jacket Contain a Pro-Fascism Message?
Some elements of a viral post about Melania Trump's jacket are factual, but there's no proof it referenced the fascist slogan "me ne frego."
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 the King of the Netherlands Tell Donald Trump That The Hague Is Waiting for Him?
A parody account posing as Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands tweeted that the International Court of Justice was waiting for the United States president.
Snopes→ Did Canada’s Prime Minister Say Canadians Don’t Need American Farmers Because They Have Grocery Stores?
Hyperpartisan social media pages and bots used yet another fake quote in order to attempt to drum up criticism against Canada's leader.
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→ Did Melania Trump Wear This Jacket When Visiting Children Separated from Their Families?
The First Lady made a surprise visit to detained immigrant children while wearing a jacket bearing the message "I DON'T REALLY CARE DO U?" on the back.
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.
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.
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.
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
Snopes→ Did President Trump Say That Canadians Smuggle Shoes Out of the United States?
Footwear manufacturers called the president "misinformed" after his appearance at a business group's event.
Snopes→ Was a Cartoonist Fired for an Anti-Trump Drawing?
Rob Rogers was let go after his newspaper rejected a number of cartoons, but not all of them had to do with President Donald Trump.
Snopes→ Does a Specific Law Mandate Family Separation and Detention of Minors?
As public debate over the policy of separating families at the border continued, rumors appeared blaming the practice on Public Law 107-296.
Snopes→ Did Eva Braun Say She ‘Hated Seeing Children Separated from Their Parents’ But Not to Blame Hitler?
A satirical quote attempting to draw a comparison between Melania Trump and Adolf Hitler's mistress was mistaken for real by some readers.
Snopes→ Were Gun-Toting Children Photographed on the United States Border?
The Drudge Report used a years-old photograph of children in Syria holding toy guns without credit, a description, or attribution to illustrate a story about immigration to the United States.
Snopes→ Are Children Being Assigned Numbers in Detention Centers?
Viral posts on social media contain claims that immigrant children are receiving numbers like Holocaust victims.
Snopes→ Was the ‘Law to Separate Families’ Passed in 1997 or ‘by Democrats’?
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.
Snopes→ The Only LGBTQ Newspaper in the White House Briefing Room Can’t Get Their Questions Answered
Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson says White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders routinely ignores him.
Snopes→ Is the Trump Administration Putting Immigrant Children in ‘Tent Cities’?
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.
Snopes→ Did Jeff Sessions Say ‘If We Inflict Fear and Pain on Children, Adults Won’t Want to Come Here’?
A quote widely attributed to the Attorney General appeared to stem from a viral video shared by Sen. Jeff Merkley's visit to a detention center.
Snopes→ Lawsuit Accuses Brexit Backers of Running British Voter Data Through Mississippi in Violation of UK Law
Arron Banks brought "Cambridge Analytica on steroids" to the United States to hide it from British authorities, lawyer says.