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Immigration fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about immigration. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

1,620 published reviews in this topic

VRTNWSImmigration

Deze beelden tonen Libanese burgers die sinds de aanval van 7 oktober massaal de Libanees-Israëlische grens beklimmen.

Publisher’s rating: Onwaar

The claim concerns viral footage presented as showing Lebanese citizens massing at the Lebanese-Israeli border after the 7 October attack, supposedly to support Palestinians. The VRT investigation says the footage does not show a new event connected to that escalation: it reports that the video had circulated since at least 2021, well before the claimed setting. To check the footage’s history, the investigation used a screenshot from the video in a reverse image search on Google. It found earlier versions online, including material posted on X and YouTube in May 2021. The article also reports that Reuters fact-checkers located archived photographs taken on 15 May 2021 in Adaisseh, a village on the Lebanese border. The comparison provides a location-based link between the old photographs and the viral footage: the article identifies the same large building in the background of the video and Reuters’s 2021 images, alongside people at the border wall. On that evidence, the footage is at least two years old and cannot substantiate the claim that it shows people gathering there in response to the October 2023 conflict. The review addresses the footage’s date and location; it does not establish that every description attached to every version of the video is accurate.

dpaImmigration

Von 750 000 Neugeborenen in Deutschland hatten 500 000 deutsche Mütter und 250 000 "migrantische Mütter".

Publisher’s rating: Sarrazins Zahlen stimmen mit den jüngsten Zahlen für 2022 nicht überein. Das Statistische Bundesamt hat im vergangenen Jahr in Deutschland 738 819 Geburten registriert. 547 254 Mütter hatten dabei eine deutsche und 191 565 Mütter eine nicht deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit.

The claim attributed to Thilo Sarrazin was that Germany had 750,000 births, of which 500,000 were to German mothers and 250,000 to “migrant mothers.” The review says Sarrazin gave neither a year nor a source for those figures. To assess them, it consulted Federal Statistical Office birth data, including a series on births by the nationality of the parents. For 2022, the office recorded 738,819 births. Of the mothers, 547,254 had German nationality and 191,565 did not. Those figures differ from both the claimed total and its breakdown. The review also reports that in the preceding twelve years, the office’s recorded birth figures did not come close to matching Sarrazin’s numbers. The comparison concerns mothers’ nationality, not whether they are migrants in a broader sense. The review reports the official categories as German and non-German nationality; it does not establish that these categories are interchangeable with Sarrazin’s wording. Since Sarrazin specified no year, the 2022 figures provide a dated comparison rather than identifying which period his figures purported to describe.

FACTLYImmigration

ಇಸ್ರೇಲ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುವ ಮತ್ತು ಹಮಾಸ್‌ಗೆ ಬೆಂಬಲವಾಗಿ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡುವ ಮಹಿಳೆಯನ್ನು ಇಸ್ರೇಲಿ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಆದೇಶದ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಇಸ್ರೇಲಿ ಮಿಲಿಟರಿ ಗಾಜಾಕ್ಕೆ ಹಿಂತಿರುಗಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

youturnImmigration

Egypt, a predominantly Muslim nation, erected a 36-foot-tall fence to restrict the entry of individuals from Gaza who share the same religious faith. Presently, residents of Gaza, predominantly Muslims, are attempting to breach the imposing barrier to enter Egypt. This scenario highlights the biggest hypocrisy within the Muslim world. While enforcing stringent measures to prevent the entry of Muslim refugees into their own territory, these Muslim countries expect a more welcoming reception in non-Muslim nations, WTH!

Publisher’s rating: false