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37 tested claims: read plainly, 13 holds and 9 mixed and 12 fails and 2 unresolved; read at their widest, 5 mixed and 28 fails and 1 unresolved. Across 5 countries.

PlainHoldsWidestMixed
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Jul 2026USImmigration The claim

Fatal shootings and deaths in ICE custody show the agency under this administration is essentially violent and lawless, its brutality intended, unpunished, and beyond reform.

The catch

The officer in the Biddeford shooting was placed on leave with investigations opened by the inspector general, the FBI, and the Maine attorney general within days.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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Jul 2026USImmigration The claim

The administration's immigration leadership stages the appearance of enforcement it doesn't intend to deliver, and is quietly steering toward legalization under a reform label.

The catch

The detention population grew, a suspended enforcement practice was restored within two days, and the department opened a new enforcement line against driver-training schools in the same week.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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Jul 2026USImmigration The claim

Mohsen Mahdawi is a legitimate security and antisemitism-linked deportation target whose habeas litigation is an attempt to dodge lawful removal, while his supporters say the same ruling hands the government an unchecked power to detain and silence speech.

The catch

No tribunal has ever ruled on the underlying 'kill Jews' allegation; the appeals panel decided only which court has jurisdiction to hear the case.

PlainHoldsWidestMixed
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Jul 2026USImmigration The claim

The July H-1B cases show the corporate class wants cheap foreign labor to replace and underpay American workers.

The catch

Microsoft's 2,273 approvals for the year aren't tied to which roles it cut, and the company says the layoffs were driven by business need, with visa status playing no part.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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Jul 2026Cross-borderImmigration The claim

Europe's far right, acting as one movement, intends a decades-long removal of non-white people, including citizens, from European countries.

The catch

The petition's own registered text asks for the return of lawfully resident non-European nationals judged 'unintegrated,' not the removal of anyone holding a European nationality.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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Jul 2026USImmigration The claim

A House hearing on ICE detention conditions shows the Republican camp pushes enforcement out of great-replacement ideology.

The catch

The description fits the five men who ran the subcommittee hearing, but the ranking member's statement named the full 25-member committee, which includes two women.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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Jul 2026Cross-borderImmigration The claim

The EU's social-media ID plan and its rejection of the Save Europe Act citizens' initiative together show the establishment intends to identify and suppress migration critics, dismissing their demands as racism.

The catch

The Commission's own stated purpose for the ID plan is child protection, and no proposal text or mechanism routing identities toward critics existed in the window.

WidestFails
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Jul 2026CAImmigration The claim

Restarting low-wage foreign worker visa processing in eight cities shows Canada's Liberal government wants imported cheap labour while Canadians are still looking for work.

The catch

The same quarterly update that reopened eight cities closed four others in the same step, and wage floors for the program rose a week later, both of which cut against a deliberate cheap-labour push.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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Jul 2026USImmigration The claim

Ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals shows Trump is acting to inflict cruelty for its own sake, for no other reason at all.

The catch

The same DHS announcement that marked the deadline offered departing holders a $2,600 check and a free flight, which also serves the ordinary purpose of making removals cheaper.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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W30UKImmigration The claim

Reform UK says Andy Burnham intends to leave the border open, and his silence in week one proves it.

The catch

He kept the responsible minister in post and had voted weeks earlier for a bill tightening asylum enforcement.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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W30USImmigration The claim

Democratic leadership's immigration positions show the party's leadership wants open borders and to destroy the country.

The catch

What the positions describe is procedural limits on enforcement conduct, which is an argument about how enforcement is done. None of it wishes the country to fail.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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W30USImmigration The claim

The attack at 26 Federal Plaza shows the anti-ICE camp is hostile to law and order, and its rhetoric produced the attack.

The catch

The reporting describes one former soldier who arrived alone, heavily equipped, and told investigators he didn't care if he killed people.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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W30USImmigration The claim

The administration has hollowed out immigration enforcement and stages the appearance of it, so promised removals aren't being pursued.

The catch

Removals need detention beds, court time, travel documents and litigation, and none of those scale with an announcement.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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Jul 2026UKImmigration The claim

The Home Office's facial age-estimation tool for asylum seekers makes age decisions more accurate and protects genuine child claimants, against the charge that it's an experimental, racially biased tool deployed mainly to defend the department's existing decisions.

The catch

Independent analysis of the supplier's own test submissions found the algorithm classified more than half of West African 16-year-olds as over 18, against fewer than a quarter of Eastern European 16-year-olds.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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Jul 2026ESImmigration The claim

The Ceuta crossing shows Spain's government and the wider pro-legalization camp intended the mass entry and its later legalization, and their emergency response was reluctance staged for the cameras.

The catch

Spain's regularization program only covers people present before January 1, 2026, so it can't legally reach anyone who crossed at Ceuta in July.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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Jul 2026USImmigration The claim

Violence against ICE personnel expresses the character of Democratic officials and the anti-ICE movement, and is the product of that camp's rhetoric, which will continue producing bloodshed until the camp stops talking.

The catch

The Federal Plaza attacker had no reported tie to any official or movement organization, and the mayor named most often condemned the attack the same morning.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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W31Immigration The claim

Temporary Protected Status was always temporary, so ending it for Haitian nationals is a return to the law, and any hardship it causes earns no further protection.

The catch

The department's own offer of a $2,600 self-deportation payment concedes that leaving carries a real cost, which the framing says is beside the point.

PlainHoldsWidestOpen
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W31Immigration The claim

Mohsen Mahdawi is a legitimate security and antisemitism-linked deportation target, and the renewed removal proceedings should go forward.

The catch

The central allegation was reviewed by the FBI in 2015 and has never been tested on the merits by any court, including the one that reopened the case.

PlainOpenWidestFails
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W31Immigration The claim

ICE's worksite raids and mass deportations are harming lawful workers and the businesses that employ them, and will cost Republicans the midterms.

The catch

Whether the electoral cost is real can't be settled from outside, though the administration's own border czar says anti-ICE messaging is putting a dent in it.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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W31Immigration The claim

Facial age estimation gives the Home Office a more confident, evidence-based way to identify genuine child asylum seekers and stop them being treated as adults.

The catch

The department's own figures put the average error for Sub-Saharan African girls at 4.6 years, and a majority of West African sixteen-year-olds were classified as adults.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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Aug 2026UKImmigration The claim

Andy Burnham's silence on Channel crossings in his first week as Prime Minister, while crossings continued, shows he intends to leave the border open.

The catch

He kept the sitting Home Secretary in post, backed a bill tightening enforcement, and went to Dover in his third week to pledge an enforcement push.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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Aug 2026Cross-borderImmigration The claim

The European right treats every migration emergency as a political asset it welcomes and amplifies for advantage, as shown by its response to the Ceuta crossing, and has no real interest in solving the problem.

The catch

The Ceuta crossing itself was large and deadly, with dozens of confirmed deaths, which the accusing coverage itself concedes even while arguing the right's response was opportunistic.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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Aug 2026USImmigration The claim

The Curtis-Kelly state-sponsored visa bill is an amnesty, and the Republican senators backing it are working against their own voters' wages and housing costs.

The catch

The bill bars visa holders from federal means-tested benefits and caps the program at 5,000 visas a year plus a share of a 245,000 pool, both of which cut against the claims made against it.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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Aug 2026USImmigration The claim

Democratic votes against a law funding rural healthcare and a tips deduction reveal a settled preference: Democrats would rather spend the money on healthcare for people in the country illegally than on Americans.

The catch

People in the country illegally remain ineligible for federally funded coverage, and no Democratic proposal directing comparable money to their healthcare was found in the independent fact-check record.

PlainMixedWidestMixed
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Aug 2026USImmigration The claim

Democratic officials' immigration and criminal-justice positions show the party wants open borders and lawlessness, that its program would destroy the country, and that several of its own members say so.

The catch

The House Democratic Caucus chair disavows the word 'abolish' on the record, even as a Michigan Senate primary winner campaigned explicitly on abolishing ICE.

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Aug 2026Cross-borderImmigration What we found

Seventeen arguments about immigration, from five countries, each one tested twice.

The catch

The same claim holds up or comes apart depending on how far you push it, and the arguing happens in that gap.

PlainFails
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W32Immigration The claim

Trump's continued focus on the Iran war shows neoconservatives intend to subordinate the MAGA deportation agenda to Israel-aligned foreign policy.

The catch

Neither post names an official or a documented internal dispute. The claim rests entirely on the coincidence of a war and a slowdown, with no evidence of an actual fight.

PlainFails
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W32Immigration The claim

Democratic candidates' and the party's platform planks show Democrats intend to impose a Marxist system that eliminates private property and border security.

The catch

Current congressional Democratic leadership hasn't called for abolishing ICE or ending border security. Those positions belong to Abdul El-Sayed and the DSA, and the national party hasn't adopted them.

PlainFails
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W33Immigration The claim

Democratic positions on ICE funding, border enforcement, amnesty, and noncitizen voting show the party as a whole is driven by a socialist agenda intent on abolishing border security, prisons, and police.

The catch

Congressional Democratic leadership has adopted none of those positions, and all four posts drop any qualifier that would limit the claim to the wing that holds them.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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W34Immigration The claim

Democratic positions and votes on ICE, borders, immigrant healthcare, voter ID, and crime show the party as a whole is a radical socialist bloc that wants open borders, wants illegal aliens voting, and protects criminals over Americans.

The catch

The vote cited as proof was on a voter-ID requirement bill; no vote to grant noncitizens the franchise occurred, and leadership has adopted none of the attributed goals.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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W35immigration The claim

The ICE arrest and pending removal of Milo Yiannopoulos shows an enforcement apparatus that has dropped uniform enforcement of the law and selects targets to punish Israel criticism and to service allied activists' personal vendettas.

The catch

An immigration judge issued a final removal order for a visa overstay five weeks before the arrest, which came at an airport, a routine place for executing removal orders.

PlainFailsWidestFails
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W35immigration The claim

Democratic votes and positions on voter ID, ICE funding, and enforcement show that the party as a whole is a Marxist bloc that wants open borders and wants illegal aliens voting in American elections.

The catch

No bill, amendment, or platform plank endorsing noncitizen voting exists anywhere in the party's current record, and the federal statute criminalizing it stands unchallenged by any Democratic measure.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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W36immigration The claim

The deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos shows that the administration's immigration enforcement acts on Laura Loomer's demands and targets the enemies of allied activists.

The catch

An immigration judge issued a final removal order on July 22 after Yiannopoulos failed to appear on an expired visa, five weeks before the arrest, and the claim that notices went to an old address on purpose is his own uncorroborated account.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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W36immigration The claim

The Ceuta surge and Sánchez's handling of it show that Sánchez and the Spanish socialists are criminals deliberately flooding Spain and Europe with migrants and betraying their country.

The catch

France 24 reported most of the roughly 70,000 who crossed were returned to Morocco, a figure Ceuta's right-wing local leaders effectively concede, and no legal proceeding against Sánchez exists, the September 3 hearing being political.

PlainHoldsWidestFails
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W36immigration The claim

Democratic votes on the funding and tax bills, and a socialist organization's stated aims, show that the Democratic Party as a whole wants to abolish ICE and borders, release criminal illegal aliens, and dismantle capitalism.

The catch

The goals list traces to remarks by a Democratic Socialists of America spokesman circulated in July by WorldNetDaily, and the one contested-race Democrat caught on video endorsing defund-ICE publicly retreated from it within the window.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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W37immigration The claim

The mask ban and the policing of the Dover and Portsmouth protests show that the British establishment intends to suppress patriotic protest and expose protesters to their enemies, while it protects migrants, the masked left and the burqa.

The catch

No one was arrested at Dover or Portsmouth on the first weekend even though officers were assaulted and police vehicles damaged, and Kent police admitted overlooking a tip-off before the Dover blockade.

PlainMixedWidestFails
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W37immigration The claim

The Ceuta crisis and the declassified record show that Sánchez and the Spanish socialists are criminals deliberately flooding Spain and Europe with migrants, and that the Red Cross and the NGOs in Ceuta are their accomplices.

The catch

Of the more than 72,000 people who crossed, the government counts about 5,000 still in Ceuta and local authorities more than 10,000, so the great majority were returned on either side's count.

PlainOpenWidestFails
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W37immigration The claim

Democratic votes and a socialist wing's stated aims show that the Democratic Party as a whole wants to abolish ICE and border security, overwhelm American cities, and dismantle capitalism under a Marxist system if it gains power.

The catch

The Democratic official accounts that addressed ICE in the window, Senators Warren, Murphy and Van Hollen, pressed oversight and conduct complaints and none called for abolishing ICE or borders.

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