On March 4‚ 2024‚ the claim that the Biden administration had secretly flown 320‚000 migrants into the U.S. in 2023 went viral. That claim originated from a report by the Center for Immigration Studies‚ a conservative think tank. The report‚ and its assertions‚ gained significant exposure when the Daily Mail covered it and Elon Musk shared the Daily Mail article on X (formerly known as Twitter). Former U.S. President Donald Trump also repeated the claim in his Super Tuesday victory speech...

In his Super Tuesday victory speech‚ former President Donald Trump elevated false information that had gone viral on social media‚ claiming the Biden administration secretly flew hundreds of thousands of migrants into the United States. Many post sharing the claim referred to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies‚ a group that advocates for immigration restrictions. It said the administration refused to list individual airports where people arrived under a Biden “parole” program...

A White House spokesperson insisted Monday that President Biden did not apologize for referring to the alleged killer of Laken Riley as “illegal.” In an MSNBC interview that aired over the weekend‚ Mr. Biden sought to clean up the mess after he came under fire from fellow Democrats and progressives for referring to Jose Ibarra‚ a Venezuelan national charged with murdering Riley‚ as an illegal. “I shouldn’t have used illegal. It’s undocumented‚” Mr. Biden said during a taped interview‚...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday said he regretted using the term "illegal" in a recent speech to describe an undocumented immigrant who allegedly murdered a student‚ which drew fire from Democrats and immigration advocates who see the word as dehumanizing. During his State of the Union address on Thursday‚ Biden was goaded by Trump-allied Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and went off script to address the case of Laken Riley‚ a 22-year-old nursing student from the U...

President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regretted using the term “illegal” during his State of the Union address to describe the suspected killer of Laken Riley‚ as his all-but-certain 2024 GOP rival‚ Donald Trump‚ blasted the Democrat’s immigration policies and blamed them for her death at a rally attended by the Georgia nursing student’s family and friends. Biden expressed remorse after facing frustration from some in his party for the use of the term to describe people who arrived or...