290 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
FactCheck.org says: Jacob Albarado helped students escape Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24. But online rumors falsely claim he was the CBP officer who killed the shooter. Albarado has said in interviews, "I didn't shoot the guy."
FactCheck.org says: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency that first encounters and then processes immigrants, is legally required to provide formula to infants in its care and has been doing so during the recent shortage.
PolitiFact says: The Biden administration would be breaking the law if it did not have a supply of formula and other food for people detained in government facilities.
Washington Post says: Biden is following the law
PolitiFact says: Using a standard fatal dose of 2 milligrams, the amount seized in 2021 would have been enough to kill every American 7.64 times over.
FACTLY says: Legislations namely Foreigners Act, 1946 and The Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920 and subsequent rules framed under this act like Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 deal with illegal migrants entering into the coun…
PolitiFact says: The vast majority of people on the flights are unaccompanied minors who requested asylum under immigration law and are being released from federal custody to a parent or sponsor. The flights aren't new under Biden.
FactCheck.org says: Dozens of people stayed at a Florida hotel in January while legally employed as temporary farmworkers for a wholesale plant nursery.
Washington Post says: Right-wing media outlets and GOP politicians have charged the Biden administration is secretly ferrying undocumented immigrants around the country. But the Trump administration had the same program.
FactCheck.org says: The number of apprehensions at the southern border does not add to the U.S. population on a one-to-one basis. There are several reasons, including that most of those apprehended were immediately turned around.
PolitiFact says: Determining the exact cost of illegal immigration is complex, but reports estimate that immigrants in the country illegally cost less than $155 billion annually.
PolitiFact says: Talks to resolve lawsuits over families separated at the border during the Trump administration included possible $450,000 payments. Biden rejected the amounts. The settlement talks eventually ended.
FactCheck.org says: There were 899 pounds of fentanyl seized at the U.S. border with Mexico in October 2021, but the steep rise in the monthly amount of the drug being seized began in mid-2020 under then-President Donald Trump.
PolitiFact says: In September, the last month for which data was available, immigration officials recorded 192,001 encounters at the border, including 102,673 expulsions. No policies have changed since then to make crossing easier.