“Says "the vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
Immigration
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.
“Refugees get more in monthly benefits than social security recipients.”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: Mostly false
“The government pays out "$2,125/month in refugee benefits to refugees resettled in the United States," while Social Security recipients “who have paid into the system their whole lives receive $1,400/month on average.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Haitian migrants took an implausible route to Texas-Mexico border area.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Many Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake later migrated to Brazil or Chile to work. When those jobs dried up or conditions worsened, they left and began traveling north toward Mexico.
“A photo depicting the Afghan refugees arrived recently to Cambodia via a plane”
Fact Crescendo Cambodia rated this: Misleading
“When we took office in January, the Trump administration had not processed a single special immigrant visa since March of 2020, in nearly a year.”
Washington Post rated this: False
Washington Post says: Sullivan misspoke and meant to refer to Interviews -- which is not accurate either.
“Two federal government buses “stopped in front of a Mexican restaurant in the very small town of Green Cove Springs Florida… The passengers were illegal immigrants, straight from the southern border.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Law enforcement officials in Green Cove Springs denied the claim in the Facebook post.
“Photo of anti-Sharia signboard placed at the Indian side of India-Pakistan border”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The photo shared in the post is a morphed one. The original photo shows a different warning signboard at the US-Mexican border. This signboard was placed at San Luis city in Arizona, United States. This signboard warns …
“Says Joe Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Biden, like Trump, restricts Americans' travel to Mexico. The border is not “wide open” for illegal immigration. The vast majority of encounters result in U.S. immigration officials turning people away at the border.
“Website promoting dubious US visa lottery program”
PesaCheck rated this: FALSE
“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The DEA has said that most of the meth in the U.S. comes from the southwest border. Meth seizure at the southwest border has been increasing for years.
“The Biden White House has "no one there. They don't travel. They don't go down to the border. They don't go overseas.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“After learning officials are handing out Kamala Harris’ book to migrants in facilities at the border, it’s worth asking… Was Harris paid for these books? Is she profiting from Biden’s border crisis?”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“Video of BJP MLA Nand Kishor Gurjar being thrashed by farmers at Ghazipur border”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video in the post is of an unrelated incident that took place in 2016 in Asansol, West Bengal, where Union Minister Babul Supriyo and his convoy were allegedly attacked. The person in the video is a BJP party worker…
“Kids in cages" in border facilities are "at 700% capacity.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: News reports in March said a tent complex in Texas, a temporary U.S. border facility holding minors who cross the Mexico border, was at 700% or more of its capacity. Children sleep in see-through plastic pods.
“Says the nation is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: There is no nationwide lockdown. Thousands of people are arriving at the southern border, but most are being expelled.
“We have encountered the largest surge of migrants (at the southern border) in the last 20 years.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Kids at the border: 2,600 highest number Trump, 12,000 currently under Biden.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Under President Trump, the number of children crossing the Mexico border who were held in temporary U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody peaked at 2,600, in June 2019. That figure is now around 4,200, not 12,000.
“The Biden administration is engaging in human trafficking because they are enabling this to happen” at the southern border.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Only 15%" of migrants apprehended when crossing the southern border qualify for asylum status and "only about half of them even show up for their court cases.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Disputed
FactCheck.org says: A 2020 study said 95% of nondetained applicants for relief from removal went to all of their court hearings from 2008-2018. And the 15% grant rate calculation factors in people who were not granted nor denied asylum.