Your fact-checks will appear here
Recorded interactions at the U.S. border, including apprehensions and turnbacks
The claim that President Joe Biden “allowed 20 million people into the U.S.” is misleading and not supported by available government and independent analyses; estimates show the unauthorized populatio...
have been shaped by three interacting forces: the rules that govern who may seek asylum, the number and processing of people encountered at the border, and the capacity of to adjudicate removal claims...
Measured different ways, the data do not support claims that illegally” and stayed during the ; most reputable nonpartisan estimates point to a substantially smaller net increase in the (roughly 5½–6 ...
A mix of court bottlenecks, congressional or state legislative moves, and administrative changes to together determine whether in 2026; increased , fewer releases, and faster interior arrests have dri...
Across a wide set of academic and policy studies, — including unauthorized immigrants — are consistently found to have lower rates of offending, arrest, conviction, and incarceration than residents; e...
The statistical office (OHSS/OIS) has historically produced “unauthorized immigrant” population estimates and, in its most-cited recent figures, the agency’s estimate for January 1, 2022 is roughly pe...
Brookings and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) do not offer a direct, public statistical comparison of FY2025 versus FY2024 removals by source country and criminality; public removal totals an...