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Immigration fact checks

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El Detector / Univision NoticiasImmigration

Video muestra arresto reciente de un inmigrante en Florida.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a video circulated with captions suggesting that it showed a recent immigrant arrest in Florida. The review identifies the footage as showing an arrest in San Bernardino, California, in September 2020—not a recent event in Florida. It describes the video as showing an agent breaking a vehicle window to arrest a Spanish-speaking driver wearing a yellow shirt, and says the footage was presented with text about how immigrants in Florida were being treated. To check the video’s origin, the review says it searched Google using keywords about an immigrant arrest and a broken window in San Bernardino. That search led to a Noticias Telemundo video published in September 2020, which contained the same images and described the arrest as taking place in San Bernardino during a nationwide ICE operation. The review also says it found a Facebook livestream from the immigrant’s own account, made on September 1, 2020. He later replied to comments in July 2021 and said he was back in San Bernardino. The review therefore concludes that the viral video was not recorded in Florida and was not connected to Florida’s recently approved immigration law. The later Florida framing was misleading: the images matched reporting and a livestream from the 2020 California arrest.

YouturnImmigration

போலி பாஸ்போர்ட்டில் வருகை உண்மையான பாஸ்போர்ட்டை எப்படி மறைத்து வைத்துள்ளனர்:? போலி இந்திய பாஸ்போர்ட் தயாரித்து அதில் பாரதத்திற்குள் வரும் வங்கதேசதவர்கள் & ரோஹிங்யாக்கள்: மேற்கு வங்கத்தில் அதிகமான போலி பாஸ்போர்ட் மட்டுமல்ல ஆதார், ரேஷன், வாக்காளர் அட்டை அதிகமாக நடைபெறுகிறது.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

El Detector / Univision NoticiasImmigration

Video muestra gente saliendo de Florida debido a la nueva ley de inmigración.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned a video circulating on Facebook in May 2023, said to show people leaving Florida after the state approved a law against undocumented immigrants. The review identifies the location in the video as Penn Station in New York, not Florida, and reports that the footage was recorded there. The post had received more than 38,000 views by May 24, 2023. To check the location, the review traced the footage to a TikTok post dated May 5, 2023. It then compared the scene with other material: a CBS New York video about Penn Station congestion, Google Maps imagery, and a journalist’s 2019 post. The reviewer also compared signs visible in the viral footage—one directing people to restrooms and another asking them not to sit on stairs—with images of Penn Station showing the same signs in matching positions. The review’s conclusion is that the crowd footage does not show people leaving Florida because of the law. Its stated basis is the match between the station hall and Penn Station material, rather than evidence that the people in the video were leaving Florida. The article also says Reuters reached the same conclusion about the images.