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0 | Viral image | 2021-03-20 00:00:00 | a Facebook post:
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Says Disneyland is enforcing a “no scream” policy on roller coasters.
| Ciara O'Rourke | 2021-03-22 00:00:00 | false | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/22/viral-image/no-disneyland-isnt-enforcing-no-scream-policy/ |
No, Disneyland isn’t enforcing a ‘no scream’ policy
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Back in July a Japanese amusement park drew attention for encouraging roller coaster riders to "please scream inside your heart."
As NPR reported at the time, the suggestion was one of several recommendations that Japanese amusement park operators released to try to slow the spread of COVID-19.
A recent post being shared on social media suggests that Disneyland in California has followed suit.
"New ‘no scream’ policy on roller coasters," reads one of two bullets in what looks like a local news broadcast. "Disneyland enforcing policy."
This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
Disneyland did not immediately respond to an email from PolitiFact about the post.
Out on March 17, it announced on its blog that after being closed for more than a year, Disneyland park and Disneyland California Adventure park are planning to reopen to the public on April 30. There are some catches: There will be limited capacity and "operational changes" to promote physical distancing and follow "guidance from health authorities."
The blog post doesn’t mention roller coasters or screaming.
We couldn’t find the exact news broadcast that appears in the Facebook post, but other media organizations recently reported incorrectly that people riding roller coasters would be forbidden from screaming on rides, information that they later corrected.
Here’s what happened.
The California Attractions and Parks Association, a trade group for amusement parks in the state, published a "responsible reopening plan." It included a list of criteria for determining the risk of spreading COVID-19 and actions amusement parks could take to mitigate that risk.
That criteria included the ability to accommodate people wearing face coverings at all times, the ability to physically distance from people from different households, and the "ability to limit activities known to cause increased spread (e.g.: singing, shouting, heavy breathing; loud environments will cause people to raise voice)."
But the plan isn’t advocating for amusement parks to limit shouting or screaming bloody murder on your way down Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
The plan suggested ways to limit the risks posed by shouting: "Face covering usage and/or modifications to seat loading patterns will be required on amusement park rides to mitigate the effects of shouting."
The CBS News affiliate in Los Angeles was among the news outlets to report that theme parks may be required to ask visitors not to scream on rides — and soon corrected its story.
And on March 18, the California Attractions and Parks Association tweeted in response to what it called "some confusing reports in the press": "At no point has CAPA recommended limiting or prohibiting yelling or screaming on amusement park rides as a way to mitigate transmission of COVID-19."
While some news headlines like this one state that Disney parks are reopening "but no screaming please," we found that the source of these reports was the trade group’s reopening plan.
We didn’t find evidence that a screaming ban exists, or that Disney is enforcing such a policy.
We rate this claim False.
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2 | Terry McAuliffe | 2021-03-10 00:00:00 | a speech:
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“If you look at the average teacher pay compared to the average pay of your citizens, Virginia ranks last.”
| Warren Fiske | 2021-03-22 00:00:00 | true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/22/terry-mcauliffe/va-teachers-pay-last-compared-full-time-year-round/ |
Va. teachers pay ranks last in U.S. compared to full-time, year-round workers
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"If you look at the average teacher pay compared to the average pay of your citizens, Virginia ranks last," he said during a March 10 virtual meeting with the Smith Mountain Lake Democrats. "We’re 50th out of 50 states. That is a disgrace."
We fact checked McAuliffe’s statement and found it on the mark.
McAuliffe was governor from 2014-2018 and stepped down because Virginia is the only state that bars its governor from serving successive terms. He faces four opponents in a June 8 Democratic primary, all of whom are also promising to increase teachers’ pay.
Renzo Olivari, McAuliffe’s campaign spokesman, said McAuliffe’s claim is based on an article posted in August 2020 in business.org., a website that offers information and product reviews aimed at small businesses.
The article was headlined, "The Best and Worst States for Teachers." It compared each state’s average teacher’s salary in the 2018-19 school year to its average 2019 salary for all full-time, year-round employees. Average teacher salaries were taken from data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics; average employee salaries came from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Virginia’s average teacher salary of $52,466 was 28% lower than the $72,833 average of all full-time workers - the largest discrepancy in the nation. That backs McAuliffe’s claim. But one potential problem remained. The Census Bureau updated its 2019 average employee salary figures after the article ran. So we ran the new numbers against the teacher pay data.
Virginia still had the largest discrepancy or, as McAuliffe says, was last in the nation. The average pay of full-time, year-round employees was $73,890 - 29% higher than the average teacher salary of all workers. Nationally, the average for full-time employees was $67,787 compared to $61,730 for teachers - a 9% difference.
Virginia has the 8th highest average salary for full-time workers and ranks 34th in average teacher pay. McAuliffe says the discrepancy shows that the state has the wealth to raise its teachers’ salaries, and he pledges to lift them "above the national average within four years."
Some legislators over the years have offered a similar argument for why Virginia can afford more spending, pointing to its status as a relatively low-tax state. Despite its wealth, Virginia ranks 36th in its average state and local tax burden, at 8.7% of income, according to USA Today.
McAuliffe estimates his four-year plan to raise teacher salaries by at least $9,200, when fully phased in, would cost about $800 million annually. We asked if it would require a tax increase and his campaign spokesman replied, "Terry will consider multiple revenue streams to fund this critically important issue, including the hundreds of millions in new revenue Virginia will see from marijuana legalization and new casino revenues. Additionally, Gov. (Ralph) Northam recently announced that our economy is rebounding faster than expected and because of that we’re expecting to see hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenues."
A bill that would have raised teacher salaries to at least the national average over five years died this winter in the House Appropriations Committee. The increase, when fully phased in, would have cost the state $755 million a year, according to the Department of Planning and Budget.
Despite the failure of the bill, legislators agreed to a 5% teacher raise for the 2021-22 school year.
Our ruling
McAuliffe said, "If you look at the average teacher pay compared to the average pay of your citizens, Virginia ranks last."
During the 2018-19 school year, the pay for a Virginia teacher was $52,466 and the average salary of a full-time, year-round worker was $73,890. The 29% discrepancy was the highest in the nation.
So, we rate McAuliffe’s statement True.
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3 | TikTok posts | 2021-03-17 00:00:00 | a video caption:
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“You will need a WHO Yellow Vaccination Passport if you plan on traveling internationally once borders open.”
| Daniel Funke | 2021-03-22 00:00:00 | barely-true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/22/tiktok-posts/no-you-dont-need-who-vaccination-certificate-trave/ |
No, you don’t need a WHO vaccination certificate to travel internationally
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A popular TikTok video said that if you want to travel abroad after getting the COVID-19 vaccine, you’ll need a passport. But not just any passport.
"You will need a WHO Yellow Vaccination Passport if you plan on traveling internationally once borders open," says the caption on a March 17 post.
The video, which had more than 80,000 shares before it was removed, featured a TikTok user who said he works at "an international airline." He said cards issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Americans who receive the coronavirus vaccine aren’t sufficient to gain entry into other countries.
"They’re not cutting it, because they’re easily forgeable and they’re administered by the CDC, which is an American organization that other countries don’t necessarily recognize," the user said in the video. "What is recognized by every country in the world are documents that are administered by the World Health Organization."
Nearly a quarter of Americans have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and President Joe Biden has said that at the current pace, the country could return to some degree of normalcy by July 4. So we wanted to take a closer look at the TikTok post’s claim about proof of vaccination for travelers.
(Screenshot from TikTok)
The video is wrong — COVID-19 vaccination is not required to travel abroad. While some countries have started to check for proof of vaccination for travelers to avoid quarantine and testing requirements, the documents are not required as a condition of travel, and the WHO has advocated against requiring vaccination before travel.
In the video, the TikTok user held up a yellow document. He said the WHO sells the vaccination passport on its website, and that "you will need a doctor to sign and stamp this in order to make it valid"
The yellow document is the WHO’s International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, which was created following the passage of the International Health Regulations in 2005. The passport-size vaccination record includes pages that "must be signed in the hand of the clinician … supervising the administration of the vaccine or prophylaxis." You can download and print one free online.
The document is not directly related to COVID-19.
"Under the current legal provisions in the International Health Regulations (2005), yellow fever is the only disease for which proof of vaccination is a prerequisite for entry," a WHO spokesperson told PolitiFact.
In February, the WHO published a position paper that said countries should not begin requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for departure or entry, "given that there are still critical unknowns regarding the efficacy of vaccination in reducing transmission."
"In addition, considering that there is limited availability of vaccines, preferential vaccination of travelers could result in inadequate supplies of vaccines for priority populations considered at high risk of severe COVID-19 disease," the WHO wrote.
That recommendation is nonbinding, though, and some countries have started to implement their own COVID-19 vaccination policies for travel. Iceland, for example, has started allowing entry to passengers with proof of vaccination such as a WHO certificate. Without it, travelers would have to test negative for COVID-19.
Several other countries have similar policies. Sweden and Denmark are working on creating their own digital vaccination certificates, and Israel has issued its "green pass" to vaccinated citizens who want to access public amenities. (Consult the State Department’s website for a full list of country-level COVID-19 travel restrictions.)
When asked in January if the U.S. could implement a COVID-19 vaccine passport system, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Newsweek: "Anything is on the table. Anything is possible, of course."
Our ruling
A TikTok post said: "You will need a WHO Yellow Vaccination Passport if you plan on traveling internationally once borders open."
That’s not literally true.
International health regulations for travelers require inoculations only against yellow fever. The WHO has advised countries not to require COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of travel. However, some countries have started to check for proof of vaccination to avoid quarantine and testing requirements — and the WHO’s vaccination record can be used in some circumstances.
The post contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False.
RELATED: Can vaccination and infection rates add up to reach COVID-19 herd immunity?
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4 | Mike Bost | 2021-03-15 00:00:00 | a radio |
The American Rescue Plan Act “does not” include “checks and balances” on how funds for state and local governments can be spent.
| Kiannah Sepeda-Miller | 2021-03-21 00:00:00 | half-true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/21/mike-bost/does-american-rescue-plan-limit-how-states-can-spe/ |
Does the American Rescue Plan limit how states can spend funds?
|
After failing to stop the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package from becoming law, Republicans are blasting the plan as a bailout for poorly managed Democratic states and cities.
A key piece of the criticism has been the stipulation that $350 billion be siphoned off for state and local governments, money Democrats who pushed through the legislation with no Republican support argue will blunt the pandemic’s fiscal fallout.
Rep. Mike Bost, a Republican from Murphysboro in southwestern Illinois, joined the national GOP chorus when in a WJPF radio interview he claimed there was nothing in the legislation limiting how states can spend the money.
"Where are the checks and balances in the issuing of these funds? Where is it that in there it says, it can only be used for A, B, C and D? It does not," Bost said. "And that’s the problem."
The law — dubbed the "American Rescue Plan" by President Joe Biden — is more flexible than previous aid packages in how money can be spent, experts told us. But it’s also not a free-for-all.
More leeway, but some limits
A relief bill passed last year, when Republicans controlled the White House and the U.S. Congress, earmarked $150 billion in state and local government aid for expenses tied only to the public health emergency. After last year’s law — dubbed the CARES Act — took effect, guidance from the federal Department of the Treasury explained funds could go beyond direct health care spending to cover items such as payroll for first responders and costs associated with caring for the homeless community.
The text of the latest aid package sets more flexible guidelines, allowing state and local governments to spend on the pandemic’s "negative economic impacts." According to the language of the new law, funds can go toward increased pay for essential workers, preventing cuts to government services, and making investments in water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure as well. And unlike the 2020 CARES Act, it covers costs incurred through 2024.
Bost spokesperson Alex Naughton, responding to our inquiry in an email, said the Democrats’ package lacks "any meaningful guardrails" for how state and local governments can spend the funds.
"They so loosely defined the terms of what’s an acceptable use of funds … that literally almost any expense could qualify," Naughton said. "This effectively creates a slush fund to use on whatever they want, as long as they paste a ‘pandemic response’ label on the package first."
Experts agreed the new law provides considerable leeway, but they added that it does set some limits and outlines penalties for states and municipalities if they go beyond the legislation’s parameters.
Specifically, state and local governments can’t use funds to make pension payments or offset lost revenue from state and local tax cuts enacted since March 3, 2021.
In Illinois, the pension fund prohibition is particularly relevant given the state’s struggle to meet its pension obligations. Last April, Democratic state Senate President Don Harmon attracted national media coverage when he sent a letter to Illinois’ congressional delegation requesting $10 billion to help shore up the underfunded pension funds.
The prohibition on direct pension spending doesn’t rule out the possibility the federal aid could free up other state money to shift toward pensions. Audit provisions in the law, however, spell out how states would have to return the money if they violate the spending restrictions.
"If something is found to be outside the scope of the program, the [state or local] government's on the hook to pay that back," said Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at the University of Illinois-Chicago’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
Our ruling
Bost said the American Rescue Plan "does not" include "checks and balances" on how state and local government funds can be spent.
Experts agreed the package is more permissive than previous state and local relief. It allows spending not only on public health but also on the economic impact of the pandemic as well as government services and infrastructure.
But it still contains two big restrictions: the money cannot pay down pensions or fill in holes created by tax cuts. State and local governments also have to report how they spend the funds, and if they are found in violation must pay the money back.
We rate Bost’s claim Half True.
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6 | Tweets | 2021-03-16 00:00:00 |
“Black Lives Matter of Atlanta Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Allegedly Using almost 500k in Donations For Personal Use.”
| Bill McCarthy | 2021-03-19 00:00:00 | false | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/19/tweets/no-black-lives-matter-wasnt-charged-fraudulently-s/ |
No, Black Lives Matter wasn’t charged with fraudulently spending donation money
|
Social media users are wrongly claiming that an official Black Lives Matter organization was charged with committing wire fraud, laundering money and misusing donation money.
The reality is different: a lone Ohio activist was indicted on similar charges after he allegedly created a Facebook page that he passed off as a Black Lives Matter charity.
The facts haven’t stopped the spread of misleading claims about what happened.
"Black Lives Matter of Atlanta Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Allegedly Using almost 500k in Donations For Personal Use," said conservative commentator Chuck Callesto, a former Republican congressional candidate, in one such tweet posted March 16.
Screenshots of Callesto’s tweet were shared on Facebook, along with other posts that repeated versions of the same claim. They were flagged as part of the platform’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
The posts give the misleading impression that the wire fraud and money laundering charges were filed against an official chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement formed in 2013 after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager, in Florida.
But Black Lives Matter was not charged.
The charges are actually against a 32-year-old activist named Sir Maejor Page, or Tyree Conyers-Page, according to the Justice Department. Page is accused of using a Facebook page called "Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta," an illegitimate nonprofit, to defraud donors on the platform who thought they were supporting a legitimate social justice organization.
Page created the Facebook account and registered "Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta" as a nonprofit organization in 2016, and he continued soliciting donations through Facebook after the group’s tax-exempt status was revoked for failure to submit required IRS forms for three years, according to the indictment against him.
Prosecutors say Page misled Facebook users into believing their donations would be used to back protests in support of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. He received donations from more than 100 people through the Facebook page. He put thousands of dollars toward personal items, entertainment, hotel rooms and a house, the indictment says.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, a charity created as an outgrowth of the Black Lives Matter movement, said in September that it was not affiliated with Page and that it rejected "the extreme misleading behaviors of people who utilize our name for their own personal wealth and gain."
"Our stance remains that Mr. Page is not affiliated with Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, nor is he an activist for the movement," the foundation told PolitiFact.
Fox 5 Atlanta, a local TV station, reported in 2016 that Page had "parted ways" with the Black Lives Matter movement in Atlanta before starting his Facebook page.
A Twitter account for "Black Lives Matter Atlanta" posted two tweets that same year saying Page’s group was "not a real chapter" and "not aligned w/ principles of BLM." The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation confirmed that the Twitter account is legitimate.
Using Facebook, PolitiFact messaged Callesto, who created the tweet that appeared on Facebook as a screenshot. After we reached out, he acknowledged that his tweet "could mislead" and posted a follow-up tweet in a thread under the original.
"This tweet is missing CONTEXT," Callesto wrote in the March 18 update. "It should read.. ‘Black Lives Matter of GREATER Atlanta’ Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering... ‘Black Lives Matter of GREATER Atlanta’ refers to a(n) illegitimate nonprofit organization."
Callesto cited a Toledo Blade article about Page’s indictment. He said he had copied the original claim from a headline on a news site. But PolitiFact searched Google and the Nexis news database and did not find a headline that matched the language in his tweet.
Conservative activist Jack Posobiec tweeted a similar claim while sharing a Daily Caller story about Page’s indictment. Posobiec wrote, misleadingly, "Black Lives Matter of Atlanta Charged with Money Laundering, Wire Fraud, Allegedly Used $450,000 in Donations for Personal use."
Our ruling
A tweet reposted to Facebook said, "Black Lives Matter of Atlanta Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Allegedly Using almost 500k in Donations For Personal Use."
That’s misleading. Black Lives Matter was not charged. The charges are against one person accused of misusing donations to what the Justice Department says was an illegitimate nonprofit posing as a Black Lives Matter charity.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation said in a September statement that it was not affiliated with that person. A local news report from 2016 said he had "parted ways" with the Black Lives Matter of Atlanta movement.
We rate this tweet False.
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9 | Bloggers | 2021-03-13 00:00:00 | an article:
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A CDC study found that “mask mandates made no statistical difference” on coronavirus case rates.
| Noah Y. Kim | 2021-03-19 00:00:00 | pants-fire | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/19/blog-posting/no-cdc-study-did-not-find-mask-mandates-make-no-st/ |
No, a CDC study did not find that mask mandates make no statistical difference on coronavirus rates
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A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that widespread mask use significantly helped stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Yet a conservative news site claims that the study actually found the opposite, quoting two sentences out of context to make it appear that mask mandates had an insignificant effect on coronavirus case rates.
"CDC: Mask Mandates Made No Statistical Difference," reads the headline of an article published in Texas Scorecard that is being shared widely on Facebook.
The article was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
We interviewed three public health experts familiar with the study and a spokesperson from the CDC. They were unanimous: The article’s reading of the study is off-base.
"It’s not accurate at all to say that mask mandates played no role in decreasing COVID-19 case rates and deaths," said Cindy Prins, a clinical associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions. "People are completely misunderstanding the study design if they are coming to that conclusion."
Both the study and the article were released as state governments considered lifting mask requirements, with five states — Texas, North Dakota, Mississippi, Iowa and Montana — opting to do so.
We reached out to the author of the article but did not hear back.
Article quotes study out of context
The main takeaway from the study was that "mask mandates were associated with statistically significant decreases in county-level daily COVID-19 case and death growth rates," said CDC spokesperson Jason McDonald.
This conclusion is stated multiple times in the agency’s study.
As evidence for its claims, the Texas Scorecard article quotes two sentences from the study out of context.
"Daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period," reads the first.
The article takes the term "reference period" to refer to the period after the mask mandate was implemented. However, the report explicitly defines the "reference period" as the 20 days before the mask mandates started.
"When the authors (of the CDC study) say ‘daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period,’ they mean that rates 60-21 days before mandates were not statistically different from those 20-1 days before the mandate," explained Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Nikolas Wada.
The CDC study compared case rates from these two time periods to make sure that there wasn’t already a downward trend in coronavirus case and death rates before the mask mandate was implemented. According to McDonald, this helped the CDC to rule out other factors that could have accounted for the decrease.
The Texas Scorecard article also quotes the following sentence from the CDC study out of context: "Changes in daily COVID-19 case and death growth rates were not statistically significant 1-20 and 21-40 days after restrictions were lifted."
The sentence appears at a point in the study that discusses the effect of indoor dining on coronavirus case and death rates. Although the study found that allowing restaurants to serve customers initially had a statistically insignificant effect on coronavirus case rates, the effect did gradually become statistically significant sometime between the 41st and 60th day after dining restrictions were lifted.
Other studies on mask mandates from the CDC and other sources have consistently found that widespread mask use decreases coronavirus case rates.
Our ruling
Texas Scorecard wrote that a CDC study found that "Mask Mandates Made No Statistical Difference" on coronavirus case rates.
That’s wrong and amounts to a ridiculous reading of a study that actually found the opposite: Mask mandates were associated with statistically significant decreases in county-level daily COVID-19 case and death growth rates.
Pants on Fire!
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10 | Duey Stroebel | 2021-03-07 00:00:00 | a TV |
"We’ve had more voter turnout since voter ID was passed than ever before."
| Eric Litke | 2021-03-19 00:00:00 | barely-true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/19/duey-stroebel/record-turnouts-after-voter-id-law-passed-not-real/ |
Record turnouts after voter ID law passed? Not really
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Citing concerns over voter fraud, Wisconsin Republicans implemented a voter ID law in 2011 requiring photo identification before casting a ballot.
Opponents blasted this as disenfranchisement, saying it disproportionately affected certain groups of voters and imposed unconstitutional barriers to voting. That prompted a yearslong legal battle that concluded only when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the law in 2015.
With Republicans gearing up to push an array of new election law changes, state Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Cedarburg, raised the voter ID topic in a recent TV interview.
"We’ve had more voter turnout since voter ID was passed than ever before," Stroebel, who is leading the effort to introduce the new limitations, said in a March 7, 2021, appearance on WISN-TV’s UpFront program.
In other words, Stroebel is asserting the photo ID requirements that opponents on the left condemned as voter suppression in fact were followed by an increase in voting.
Let’s see if he has a point.
How to calculate turnout
The first question is how we define turnout — a more complicated question than it might seem.
It’s easy to bungle the data. For instance, while trying to make the case for widespread fraud in 2020, Donald Trump Jr. said voter turnout in Wisconsin had jumped from 67% in 2016 to 89%. But he calculated the two figures differently, and we rated the claim Pants on Fire.
In defending Stroebel’s claim, his policy director, Brian Sikma, pointed to raw vote totals. But that’s a poor measure since the number of potential voters changes dramatically over time, due to population growth and other factors. Stroebel’s claim was that recent turnout is the highest "ever," but Wisconsin has twice as many potential voters as it did in the 1960s.
So we need a rate statistic — some reflection of the percentage of eligible people who voted, which allows us to compare different eras.
Many states use registered voters for this calculation, but that’s a tough measure to use in Wisconsin since the state allows same-day voter registration. That creates a significant lag between knowing how many votes were cast and knowing how many people were registered, which clerks report well after the election.
But there are other problems as well.
"Some have argued that a strict voter ID law could actually discourage people from registering if those individuals believe that they lack proper ID to vote. If this sort or behavior occurs, then a law that reduces voter registration could misleadingly appear to produce higher turnout because fewer people are registered," said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "In a similar fashion, the actions taken by the (Wisconsin Elections Commission) over the past few years to remove outdated or incorrect registration records from the statewide database could lead to misleading conclusions about turnout rates."
Because of such concerns, the elections commission calculates turnout as the number of voters divided by the number of voting-age adults. We’ll lean on that for our analysis, along with a similar calculation that divides by the number of eligible voters (which removes non-citizens, felons and other ineligible voters from the total).
Putting Stroebel’s claim in context
Stroebel’s assertion is noteworthy since it is at odds with traditional wisdom on the subject — the expectation that adding requirements to voting will reduce the number of voters.
Some form of voter ID is now required in 36 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
A 2014 report from the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office found the changes had a mixed impact on turnout. They examined 10 studies that analyzed turnout before and after voter ID was implemented in various states: five studies found no connection between the two, four found decreases in turnout and one found an increase in turnout.
In a Wisconsin-specific study in 2017, Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin political science professor, estimated between 11,701 and 23,252 people did not vote in the 2016 presidential election because of confusion over voter ID requirements or lack of proper identification.
Conservatives disputed that finding, however. Will Flanders, research director at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, told the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in 2018 the study "pushed a narrative" of voter suppression but did not actually prove it.
Breaking down the numbers
So did Wisconsin really post its highest-ever voter turnout in the years since voter ID took effect?
Burden said presidential elections are the best way to gauge the law’s effect, since other elections have a lower turnout and involve voters who "tend to be older, wealthier, more educated, and whiter, all factors that correlate with the likelihood of knowing about the law and possessing IDs."
We’ll start there, but will review all elections since Stroebel’s claim wasn’t specific to presidential contests.
In 2012 — the last presidential election before voter ID — 70.1% of the voting-age population turned out. That dropped to 67.3% in 2016 under voter ID, then rose to 72.7% in 2020, according to the elections commission.
The 2020 turnout figure is the third-highest since 1948, topped only by turnout around 73% in 1960 and 2004, according to data assembled by the elections commission. Turnout figures from the U.S. Elections Project — which calculates turnout based on eligible voters — showed 2020’s turnout was the highest since at least 1980, slightly edging 2004.
But let’s look closer at 2016.
Turnout rose overall in the U.S. that year to 60.1%, up from 58.6% in 2012, according to the Elections Project. So Wisconsin was bucking the national trend by declining in the first year of voter ID. Wisconsin had the second-largest decline in turnout in 2016 among the 50 states from 2012 to 2016.
That’s a big mark against the narrative Stroebel is laying out.
Taking a broader view, here’s how the other elections since 2016 stacked up, according to elections commission data:
The gubernatorial elections, i.e. mid-term elections, show results in line with Stroebel’s claim. The 2018 turnout of 59.43% was the highest in the state dating back to 1950. That was part of a national surge, however. Nationwide turnout in that election was the highest overall since 1914 amid the polarizing tenure of President Donald Trump, according to the elections project.
Turnout for the recent April presidential primaries has not been the highest ever. The 2016 turnout was fourth-highest since 1948, and 2020 was 10th-highest.
The August primary turnout was even lower compared to historical norms. Among the 2016, 2018 and 2020 elections, only the 2018 race was in the Top 10 since 1948.
The 2018 and 2019 spring elections, which were topped by Wisconsin Supreme Court contests, ranked second and third for turnout among the 10 contested races since 2010, but they were far short of the 2011 turnout in the race won by Justice David Prosser.
If we narrow our focus to just the few elections before and after voter ID (as in the chart above), we see turnout rose since 2016 in the gubernatorial elections, presidential primaries and partisan primaries, while it stayed largely stable in presidential elections and fell short of the recent high in the state Supreme Court race.
But Stroebel didn’t just say turnout rose, he said it was the highest ever.
And on that, he is off the mark.
Our ruling
Stroebel said, "We’ve had more voter turnout since voter ID was passed than ever before."
The implication baked into this claim is that the law must not have hampered voting if turnout was still historically high. But the data doesn’t make that case, especially since turnout rose in the U.S. overall in recent years.
Turnout in the 2018 gubernatorial election was the highest ever — as part of a nationwide surge — but the other elections held since voter ID passed don’t show such a historic jump. And many weren’t close. In the presidential elections, turnout rose in 2020, but it dropped in 2016 even as voter turnout rose nationally.
We define Mostly False as "a statement that contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That fits here.
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11 | Eric Greitens | null | an |
By ending the Keystone XL Pipeline project, President Joe Biden “imperiled one of Donald Trump's most significant achievements, which was that we had achieved American energy independence.”
| William Skipworth | 2021-03-19 00:00:00 | barely-true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/19/eric-greitens/greitens-missed-mark-keystone-xl-statement/ |
Greitens missed the mark with Keystone XL statement
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During a March 2 radio appearance on the Marc Cox Morning Show on 97.1 KTFK, Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens told listeners he’s evaluating the possibility of running for Senate in 2022. Such a run became more probable after Sen. Roy Blunt announced that he wouldn’t run for another term.
While explaining his views and would-be platform, Greitens attacked President Joe Biden’s energy policy and praised former President Donald Trump’s. He specifically went after Biden for nixing the Keystone XL pipeline project.
"Look at what he did, for example, coming into office and killing the Keystone XL pipeline," Greitens said. "Not only did he kill 11,000 jobs with the stroke of the pen, he also imperiled one of Donald Trump's most significant achievements, which was that we had achieved American energy independence under President Trump."
Repeated attempts to reach Greitens via his website and social media were unsuccessful.
On Biden’s first day as president, he signed an executive order revoking the permit for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, an 875-mile pipeline that would have carried a heavy crude oil mixture from Alberta to Nebraska. This led to the project being suspended in the early days of construction. It was originally authorized by then-President Trump in March 2019 but met with criticism over its effect on the environment and its encroachment on indigenous peoples’ territory.
PolitiFact has already looked at statements claiming that the order killed 11,000 jobs before and rated them Half True. But we wanted to take a closer look at the rest of Greitens’s statement.
Did the U.S. achieve energy independence under Trump?
Achieving complete energy independence was one of Trump’s big campaign promises and something he worked for while in office. PolitiFact tracked most of Trump’s campaign promises, including this one — rating it a Compromise.
There are two generally accepted definitions of energy independence.
One says that energy independence occurs when the country produces more energy than it consumes. By that definition, the U.S. achieved energy independence in April 2019.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration releases a monthly report tracking energy statistics. According to that report, the U.S. produced 7.918 quadrillion Btu in November 2020. (A Btu is a measurement of energy consistent with the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a pound of water by 1 degree Fahrenheit.) In that same month, the U.S. consumed 7.603 quadrillion Btu.
Some experts prefer a different definition of energy independence: no energy imports. Here, the U.S. doesn’t have to rely on other countries or be subject to global market disruptions. It’s independent from the global market. By this definition, the U.S. is far from achieving energy independence. The Energy Information Administration’s monthly report shows that the U.S. imported 1.598 quadrillion Btu in November 2020.
But if the U.S. is producing more energy than it consumes, why is it importing energy?
Well, much of the energy the U.S. produces is exported to other countries. Of the 7.918 quadrillion Btu the U.S. produced in November 2020, it exported 1.958 quadrillion. This left the country short of the 7.603 Btu Americans consumed that month, so energy was imported to make up the difference.
So why does the U.S. export so much energy?
According to the American Petroleum Institute, a group that represents the oil and gas industry, companies need to in order to refine it properly. Crude oil is not a consistent homogenous product, it says. Different types of crude oil — particularly those with different viscosities or sulfur levels — require different types of refinery infrastructure to process it properly. Not all of the oil extracted from U.S. soil can be processed well in the U.S.
Did Biden’s order hurt America’s energy independence?
This claim circulated around social media in the days after Biden’s executive order and other similar actions. PolitiFact found it to be Mostly False.
This claim relies on the notion that canceling the Keystone Pipeline would decrease American energy production.
However, the pipeline would be transporting oil extracted in Canada. Energy production is defined as the amount of primary energy extracted from nature, so this won’t affect the amount of energy the U.S. actually produces, only potentially the amount it imports and where it is imported from.
Our ruling
Greitens said that when Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, he "imperiled one of Donald Trump's most significant achievements, which was that we had achieved American energy independence under President Trump."
According to one definition of energy independence, the U.S. achieved energy independence under Trump. Another definition says it means no net imports. Either way, his claim that Biden’s action threatened that energy independence doesn’t hold up. The action won’t affect U.S. energy production, only imports.
We rate this Mostly False.
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12 | Ron DeSantis | 2021-03-13 00:00:00 |
"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."
| Amy Sherman | 2021-03-19 00:00:00 | mostly-true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/19/ron-desantis/fact-checking-desantis-sanctuary-cities-e-verify-l/ |
Fact-checking DeSantis on sanctuary cities, E-Verify laws
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said while the Biden administration has created a crisis at the border, Florida lawmakers have taken action on their own to address illegal immigration.
"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify," Florida’s Republican governor said on Fox News, adding that he hoped such policies spread nationwide.
"Biden is going in the absolute wrong direction," DeSantis said. "Trump had it right at the border, Biden has got it wrong."
DeSantis did sign laws to ban sanctuary cities and require some employers to use E-Verify, a federal program for employers to verify eligibility for employment. But he omits context about both bills.
Florida’s sanctuary cities ban
There is no official definition or list of sanctuary cities, and some cities or counties have pushed back on that label. There also isn't any uniform sanctuary policy. Broadly, jurisdictions are described as sanctuary cities when they have policies that restrict state or local police from assisting federal immigration officers; stop local or state officials from inquiring into a person's immigration status; or restrict information sharing between local or state law enforcement and federal authorities.
Democrats have said that sanctuary cities don’t really exist, but that Republicans pretend they do to score political points. We found in 2018 that the fluidity of the definition plus legal challenges made it hard to determine if Florida had sanctuary cities or counties.
In 2019, DeSantis signed a law prohibiting a local government entity from having a sanctuary policy. The law required county jails to enter into agreements with a federal immigration agency and do their best to support federal immigration law. Supporters of the bill said it would improve public safety. Opponents said it was discriminatory and would erode trust between law enforcement and immigrant communities.
Immigration advocates protested SB 168, a sanctuary cities ban, on April 23, 2019, during a press conference in the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP)
The Southern Poverty Law Center sued DeSantis on behalf of immigration advocates and the city of South Miami. The case went to trial in January, and U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom has not announced her ruling, although in December she struck down a part of the law that allowed local law enforcement to transport immigration detainees outside their own jurisdictions.
A spokesperson for DeSantis said that the legislation has deterred cities from choosing not to enforce federal immigration laws.
A spokesperson for the Florida Sheriffs Association said that after SB 168 was signed into law, sheriffs updated their policies and entered into agreements with federal immigration officials, although some already had such agreements.
"The vast majority cooperated anyway," said Paul Chavez, an attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center. "It’s rare that a jurisdiction wouldn’t."
Before DeSantis signed the sanctuary cities ban, the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank favoring low levels of immigration, listed Florida’s Alachua and Clay counties and the city of West Palm Beach as being sanctuary jurisdictions, but all denied the label at the time. Now, there are no Florida communities listed.
Both Alachua and Clay counties now have "basic ordering agreements" with ICE, as do most Florida counties. But Alachua’s sheriff spokesman Art Forgey said it was already the agency’s policy to give ICE access to inmates when in 2019 it signed a formal agreement to that effect in response to the new law. West Palm Beach reached an agreement with the Justice Department over its policies, and the city directed employees to share information with federal immigration officials.
Florida’s E-Verify mandate for public employers
DeSantis campaigned on a promise to enact E-Verify for employers.
E-Verify is a federal online program that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States by matching information employees provide against Social Security and immigration records. Many states require the use of E-Verify for at least some employers.
After resistance from business groups, DeSantis signed a bill in June 2020 that required E-Verify for public employers and contractors, but gave private employers a choice: They could use E-Verify or complete federally required employment eligibility forms and retain copies of the supporting documents. Many businesses already chose to retain those supporting documents, such as a passport, green card, driver’s license or birth certificate.
In this, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020 photo, workers monitor tomatoes as they are boxed, in Florida City, Fla. (AP)
The new state law expanded the E-Verify rules "a little bit more," said Enrique Gonzalez, a Miami lawyer and expert on immigration compliance for companies and institutions. But it’s nowhere near as stringent as states that mandate E-Verify for all employers, such as Arizona.
"We have not seen a substantial difference with implementation of this law compared to what (employers) were doing previously," Gonzalez said.
The Florida law required compliance by Jan. 1, 2021. There were about 66,000 Florida employers with E-Verify agreements as of Dec. 31, an increase from about 51,000 in 2019. But it’s unclear to what extent that relates to the new law or simply normal growth; there were about 41,000 in 2018. A bill introduced this session would mandate that all employers use E-Verify.
Our ruling
DeSantis said "when I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."
DeSantis did sign both bills, but omits context about both.
The bill he signed in 2019 banned local governments from having sanctuary policies. and required local jurisdictions to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. But many jurisdictions already cooperated in such a manner before the law. The future of the law is uncertain due to a pending ruling from a federal judge regarding its legality.
In 2020, DeSantis did sign a bill to require E-Verify for public employers and their contractors, but in his comments, the governor omitted that it didn’t apply to private employers who could instead use federal forms used to verify eligibility for employment.
The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it Mostly True.
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14 | Barbara Dittrich | 2021-02-16 00:00:00 | Column:
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"Pot today is not the weed baby boomers were smoking."
| Haley BeMiller | 2021-03-19 00:00:00 | true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/19/barbara-dittrich/yes-marijuana-stronger-it-used-be/ |
Yes, marijuana is stronger than it used to be
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Wisconsin Republicans have been blunt about their opposition to legalizing marijuana.
Gov. Tony Evers proposed legalizing recreational and medical marijuana in his 2021-’23 state budget as a way to bring in more revenue that he’d put toward rural schools and marginalized communities. Some GOP lawmakers have signaled they could support medical use, but the measure is not given much hope for passage.
State Rep. Barbara Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc, published a column on her legislative web page on Feb. 16, 2021 titled "Gaslighting Marijuana" that touched on a range of arguments against legalization. One line in particular caught our eye.
"There is the pervasive, false perception that marijuana is not dangerous," Dittrich wrote. "Pot today is not the weed baby boomers were smoking."
Is Dittrich right that modern marijuana is different than the grass of Woodstock past?
The evolution of marijuana
Dittrich’s argument centers around the amount of THC — the chemical that produces a high — in dried marijuana leaves and wax used for vaping devices. When asked for evidence to support her claim, an aide provided links to several articles about the drug and its health impacts.
In 2015, Andy LaFrate of the marijuana testing lab Charas Scientific said the average potency of marijuana the lab tested had reached 20% THC — an increase from where it was 20 or 30 years prior.
"I would say the average potency of marijuana has probably increased by a factor of at least three," LaFrate said in a video from the American Chemical Society.
That tracks with other research done on this topic. One study in 2019 found marijuana potency on average increased from 8.9% in 2008 to 17.1% in 2017. Another group of researchers indicated THC amounts were as low as 4% in 1995.
By contrast, THC content reached 22% and 67% in parts of the Netherlands, according to a study in Europe. Products with an average potency of 14% represented most of the London street market, while Italy, France and Spain saw marijuana with less than 10% THC.
Today’s potency depends in part on whether the marijuana comes from the legal or black market, said Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Marijuana recently seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration tests between 12 to 14% on average, she said, compared to 3% or less in the 1970s and 1980s. But dispensaries sell products with up to 20% THC.
The change over time can be attributed to several factors, Weiss said: Marijuana back in the day was largely imported from Mexico, and potency would have decreased as it sat before being distributed. People also know more about the genetics of the plant now and can grow it in more controlled environments. Plus, the demand exists for a stronger product.
"Just as you can breed for better tomatoes, you can breed for higher potency plants," Weiss said.
Marijuana users also have more options today by way of concentrates like wax and oil that can be used for vaping — which are even stronger than dried cannabis.
In 2014, the head of the DEA told lawmakers that the THC content of those products averaged 54%, with some as high as 99%. According to NIDA, solvent-based products range on average from 54 to 69% THC, while non-solvent products have levels between 39 to 60%.
Our ruling
In a column, Dittrich said "pot today is not the weed baby boomers were smoking."
Research shows that the THC content of marijuana has increased significantly since the 1970s amid shifting trends in the industry and a greater understanding of the cannabis plant.
We rate Dittrich’s claim True.
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15 | YouTube videos | 2021-03-17 00:00:00 | a YouTube post:
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Video shows Joe Biden faked an interview in front of a green screen.
| Ciara O'Rourke | 2021-03-18 00:00:00 | pants-fire | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/18/youtube-videos/no-biden-didnt-fake-interview-front-green-screen/ |
No, Biden didn’t fake an interview in front of a green screen
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On March 16, President Joe Biden was walking to an awaiting helicopter on the White House grounds when he stopped briefly to talk to a group of reporters, some holding boom mics.
"Do you have any plans to travel to the southern border?" a reporter asked.
"Not at the moment," Biden said. He answers another question about COVID-19 vaccines and then walks on.
The moment is unremarkable, unless you’ve been misled to believe the whole thing is a fraud — that the interview was fake and the president was acting in front of a green screen.
A YouTube video that has been viewed more than half a million times is among the many social media posts to spread this false claim.
Titled "Biden fakes interview, green screen fails," the post alleges that "the reporters were not there" because of how Biden’s hands appear in relation to the microphones.
This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
The YouTube video uses two clips of Biden talking to reporters. One clip is from The Hill and the other is from the Washington Post.
Around the 9-second mark in The Hill’s video, Biden’s hands appear to move in front of the microphones as if they weren’t there. There’s no denying that it looks strange. But it doesn’t prove he’s talking in front of a green screen.
Steve Herman, a Voice of America reporter who was holding one of the microphones, tweeted about the rumors on March 17.
"I was the one holding the lighter-colored fuzzy microphone and thus literally in front of @POTUS on the South Lawn," Herman wrote. "It’s all real."
Herman also shared a video created by Mick West, who writes about conspiracy theories. In the video, West explains that because the microphones were on long booms, which enable reporters to maintain physical distance from the president amid the coronavirus pandemic, they give the illusion that something is amiss.
He recreated a similar scenario in his own yard and filmed it from different angles. The effect is the same.
"It does look weird, but once you understand what’s going on, it’s pretty obvious," he says in the video.
Herman noted in an email to PolitiFact that, even when there's not a pandemic, the booms are regularly used during outdoor helicopter talks due to challenging acoustics.
Other images from that day show the president, microphones and reporters from other angles.
In this Reuters image, taken by photographer Tom Brenner, Biden can be seen from the side talking to reporters who are standing several feet away with their microphones extended forward. This Getty Images shot, by photographer Drew Angerer, shows Biden standing behind the microphones from below. This Washington Post video shows the interview from a different angle than the Hill video.
And this clip, shared by FiveThirtyEight reporter Kaleigh Rogers, shows the different videos side by side.
While the clip that’s being shared on social media may look odd, it’s not a hoax. It’s an optical illusion.
We rate the claim that Biden faked this interview with reporters in front of a green screen Pants on Fire!
UPDATE, March 19, 2021: This story has been updated to include additional information from journalist Steve Herman about the function of booms.
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18 | Kevin McCarthy | 2021-03-14 00:00:00 | an |
“Democrats have accomplished a lot in just 2 months ... 1 Million energy jobs destroyed.”
| Jon Greenberg | 2021-03-17 00:00:00 | pants-fire | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/17/kevin-mccarthy/gops-mccarthy-wrongly-accuses-democrats-destroying/ |
GOP’s McCarthy wrongly accuses Democrats of destroying 1 million energy jobs
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy took to Fox News to highlight the damage purportedly wrought by Democrats since President Joe Biden took office. He summarized his comments in a tweet.
"Democrats have accomplished a lot in just 2 months," McCarthy tweeted March 14. "Higher gas prices. Biden's border crisis. 1 Million energy jobs destroyed."
Democrats have accomplished a lot in just 2 months:❌ Higher gas prices❌ Biden's border crisis❌ 1 Million energy jobs destroyedAnd they’re just getting started. pic.twitter.com/8gUGmL0QFL— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) March 14, 2021
The press of unaccompanied minors and families at the Mexico border is real. Gas prices have gone up, though most of the increase took place under President Donald Trump, and is driven by an improving economy and global oil markets, rather than Washington policy.
McCarthy’s statement about 1 million energy jobs, which he also made in the Fox News interview, is way off.
We reached out to McCarthy’s office for an explanation and did not hear back. The 1 million figure in his claim number aligns with a forecast from the American Petroleum Institute, a group that represents the oil and gas industry, but McCarthy misrepresented what the number means.
In September, the American Petroleum Institute wrote that under a total ban on oil and gas leasing, "nearly one million jobs would be lost by 2022."
Here’s why that doesn’t back up McCarthy’s claim:
The study assumed all new leasing and new drilling on existing leases for oil and gas on federally controlled land and waters would stop completely. The Biden administration fulfilled its campaign promise to put new leasing on hold, but production on current leases continues uninterrupted. Plus, there are over 7,000 approved drilling permits that oil and gas companies have yet to use.
The study estimated total job losses, not energy job losses. The underlying model forecast a decline in the national economy, and translated that into an overall decline in employment. McCarthy spoke of 1 million energy jobs.
It is a projection, and as the underlying study itself noted, projections "are not predictions of what will happen, but rather modeled projections of what may happen." McCarthy’s statement holds Democrats responsible for hypothetical results as if they’ve actually taken place.
Philip Jordan with BW Research tracks jobs in the energy sector for the National Association of State Energy Officials. Jobs in the oil, gas and coal industries have declined due to the pandemic downturn, Jordan said, but that was about 120,000 jobs, and took place before Biden took office.
Jordan said that McCarthy’s number is implausible on its face.
"The total of fossil fuel industries combined have about 1.6 million jobs," Jordan said. "A million energy jobs lost? I think the math is impossible."
Our ruling
McCarthy said in the past two months, Democrats led by Biden have "destroyed 1 million energy jobs."
The 1 million figure matches a number from an American Petroleum Institute report, but that report assumed all new oil and gas development on federal property would cease, while the Biden policy affects only new leasing. And the projected job losses were across the entire economy — not solely in energy.
McCarthy spoke as if the jobs were actually lost in the past two months, but the figure came from a projection, which might never come to pass.
We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
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20 | Maria Bartiromo | 2021-03-16 00:00:00 | an |
The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.”
| Bill McCarthy | 2021-03-17 00:00:00 | false | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/17/maria-bartiromo/maria-bartiromo-conflates-trumps-georgia-calls-pri/ |
Maria Bartiromo conflates Trump’s Georgia calls in primetime interview
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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo conflated the details of two post-election calls former President Donald Trump had with Georgia election officials, wrongly claiming that the Washington Post walked back its reporting on Trump’s call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
The Washington Post issued a high-profile correction to a Jan. 9 report about another phone call between Trump and a different Georgia official, Frances Watson. But the Post has not changed its reporting on Trump’s Jan. 2 call with Raffensperger, which was backed by audio of the call.
As she interviewed Trump on March 16, Bartiromo suggested that the facts surrounding Trump’s hour-long call with Raffensperger were also up in the air. That’s not true.
"Let's talk about the Washington Post and what took place yesterday, with the Washington Post being forced to correct what you told the secretary of state of Georgia," Bartiromo said.
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
There’s no debate over what Trump told Raffensperger on Jan. 2. The full audio of the call confirmed the Post’s Jan. 3 report describing it. With other people on the line, Trump was recorded pressuring Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to flip the election as he recycled debunked claims about dead and ineligible voters, mystery ballots, rigged machines and other allegations of fraud.
"I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state," Trump told Raffensperger, wrongly insisting that he won the swing state.
Bartiromo also said in her interview with Trump that the since-corrected report came "right before the Senate race" in Georgia that tipped control of the chamber to the Democrats. That’s also wrong. The report that was recently corrected was published on Jan. 9, days after the state’s Jan. 5 runoff elections.
On her show March 17, Bartiromo said during an interview with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that she had confused the two calls. "I misspoke last night and said that the call in question was a call between President Trump and the secretary of state of Georgia," Bartiromo said. "No, no, no. It wasn’t. It was President Trump and a Georgia election official."
Two officials, two calls, two reports — but only one correction
In January, the Washington Post published two major stories about Trump’s efforts to pressure Georgia’s election officials to overturn the state’s results. The separate reports focused on two different phone calls involving two different election officials.
The first report, published Jan. 3, detailed Trump’s call with Raffensperger. The Post published the full audio and transcript of that call. Its Jan. 3 story was never corrected.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference in Atlanta on Nov. 11, 2020. (AP)
The second report, published Jan. 9, said Trump had a similar call in December with Watson, Georgia’s chief elections investigator. Citing an anonymous state official, the Post reported that Trump told Watson she should "find the fraud," and that she’d be a "national hero" if she did.
A recording of that call, first reported March 11 by the Wall Street Journal, was later located. The audio reveals that Trump did not urge Watson to "find the fraud."
Rather, the former president is heard telling Watson to uncover the "dishonesty" in signatures on absentee ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, which covers most of Atlanta. He said in the call that "when the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised."
In her March 17 follow-up, Bartiromo said the "bigger story" was that the Post reported that Trump told Watson to "find the fraud" when, she argued, he "didn’t say anything at all like that."
The Post has since identified the anonymous source who provided the quotes as Jordan Fuchs, Georgia’s deputy secretary of state. Fuchs told Washington Post media columnist Erik Wemple that she believed the report accurately reflected Watson’s interpretation of the call.
"The only mistake here was in the direct quotes, and they should have been more of a summary," Fuchs is quoted as saying in Wemple’s March 16 column. "I think it’s pretty absurd for anybody to suggest that the president wasn’t urging the investigator to ‘find the fraud.’"
The Post on March 11 appended a lengthy correction to its original report about Trump’s call with Watson, acknowledging that it had "misquoted Trump’s comments."
But in her interview with Trump, Bartiromo muddled the details around that correction, giving the false impression that what we know about Trump’s call with Raffensperger was also discredited.
"The Washington Post initially accused you of a crime, based on fabricating quotes, and the rest of the media ran with it," Bartiromo said, before reading from the Post’s correction. "I know you put out a statement about this story, Mr. President. But tell us what your reaction is that the Washington Post had to correct this fake news that they reported that you told the secretary of state of Georgia to find the fraud and find the votes right before the Senate race."
Responding to Bartiromo, Trump said the Post’s report "probably affected the Senate race" that sent two Democrats to the Senate — even though the runoff election for those seats took place on Jan. 5, days before the Post published its report on Trump’s call with Watson.
Our ruling
Bartiromo said that the Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia."
That’s inaccurate. The Washington Post issued a correction about a separate report detailing the contents of a different call Trump had with a different Georgia official, Watson. But the newspaper has not changed its reporting on Trump’s Jan. 2 call with Raffensperger, the secretary of state.
The report that was corrected came after the Georgia Senate runoffs and therefore had no bearing on the outcome of that election.
We rate Bartiromo’s claim False.
UPDATE, March 17, 10:35 p.m.: This fact-check was updated to reflect Bartiromo’s comments on March 17 acknowledging that she confused the two calls. Our rating remains the same.
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23 | Facebook posts | 2021-03-13 00:00:00 | a text post:
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Says Joe Biden is “now saying he inherited ‘a mess’ at the border. Fact: 9,000 illegals all of 2020. So far in 2021 108,000 entered U.S.”
| Daniel Funke | 2021-03-17 00:00:00 | false | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/17/facebook-posts/facebook-post-misleads-number-border-apprehensions/ |
Facebook post misleads on number of border apprehensions under Biden, Trump
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Displaced by crime, political instability and the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of migrants from Central America — including unaccompanied children — have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few months. Top Republicans in Congress, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, blame the influx on President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.
On Facebook, some users have echoed those talking points.
"Sleepy Joe now saying he inherited ‘a mess’ at the border," says a March 13 post. "Fact: 9,000 illegals all of 2020. So far in 2021 108,000 entered U.S."
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Similar posts have been shared thousands of times, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool.
The Facebook post misattributed the statement — Biden never said his administration inherited "a mess" at the border from former President Donald Trump. That comment came from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
(Screenshot from Facebook)
"Let me just say this: Joe Biden inherited a huge mess on immigration, and it’s not going to be cleaned up in a month," Schumer said on a March 11 episode of "The View."
Other Democrats have made similar remarks, but not Biden himself. Still, we wanted to take a closer look at the Facebook post’s claim about border crossings under Trump and Biden.
The post is wrong — there were far more than 9,000 apprehensions at the southwest border in 2020.
The Facebook post doesn’t specify an area of the border or a kind of Border Patrol encounter, so we looked at statistics about apprehensions along the entire southwest border with Mexico.
In March 2020, Trump invoked Title 42, a federal public health law, to allow border officials to quickly expel migrants on the grounds that their entry could contribute to the spread of COVID-19. That means migrants arriving without permission now face either apprehension and removal proceedings, or immediate expulsion.
According to the latest Border Patrol data, there have been 381,636 encounters at the southwest border during the 2021 fiscal year, which started in October. Of those, 64,046 encounters were apprehensions, meaning migrants were taken into custody between ports of entry, and the rest were Title 42 expulsions. In January and February, when Biden was president, there were 172,286 encounters and 39,572 apprehensions.
By comparison, there were 400,651 southwest border encounters during the 2020 fiscal year, which spanned from October 2019 to September 2020. Of those, more than 200,000 were apprehensions. It’s important to note that Border Patrol data on encounters refers to events — not people.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a March 16 statement that officials are seeing a surge in attempted border crossings this year.
"This is not new. We have experienced migration surges before — in 2019, 2014, and before then as well," Mayorkas said in the statement. "Since April 2020, the number of encounters at the southwest border has been steadily increasing."
The 108,000 figure in the claim appears to stem from something Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said during a March 9 press conference about immigrants entering the country illegally.
"In all of last year, in the Rio Grande Valley Sector there were about 90,000 apprehensions," Abbott said, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. "Just this year there have been 108,000 apprehensions there."
The Rio Grande Valley Sector is a Border Patrol service area that covers more than 34,000 square miles of southeast Texas. There are 19 other sectors on the northern and southern borders that report their own apprehension statistics.
We reached out to the Facebook user who shared the post for a comment, but we didn’t hear back.
The post is inaccurate. We rate it False.
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25 | Amy Pechacek | 2020-12-20 00:00:00 | News release:
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“We have reached our goal to clear the backlog of (unemployment) claims.”
| Laura Schulte | 2021-03-17 00:00:00 | half-true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/17/amy-pechacek/wisconsin-cleared-one-backlog-unemployment-claims-/ |
Wisconsin cleared one backlog of unemployment claims in late 2020, but other backlogs exist
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Over the past year, since the coronavirus pandemic began, Wisconsin’s unemployment system has faced a host of issues.
Flooded with applications as stores, restaurants and other businesses shut down or closed entirely, the state Department of Workforce Development struggled to keep up with claims.
The situation was complicated by an outdated computer system, one that had to be reprogrammed to accommodate unique elements of the pandemic response, such as bonus payments from the federal government.
Employees were transferred from other departments to help with the influx of claims, and new employees were hired to answer the phones and adjudicate cases. Still, by mid-summer more than 100,000 claims were waiting for adjudication, leaving thousands of Wisconsinites struggling to buy food and pay rent. (In many cases, one person had multiple weekly claims awaiting review and approval).
In September, Gov. Tony Evers asked the head of the department to resign. The new head, Amy Pechacek, launched a partnership with Google and on Dec. 30, 2020 -- in her first news release as secretary-designee of the department -- declared:
"Since the start of the pandemic, our top priority at DWD has been ensuring that all eligible unemployment claims in Wisconsin are paid as quickly as possible. Today, I am proud to say we have reached our goal to clear the backlog of claims."
Now, typically we don’t examine claims that are more than two months old. And we won’t blame a backlog for our tardiness. Rather, we’ll note that this is a good point -- one year since the pandemic began -- to examine where the backlog issue stands.
Of course, we’ll examine things as they stood when the claim was made.
That said, many things remain the same as they did at the close of 2020 when the backlog was declared eliminated.
So, was Pechacek right?
Backlog of claims older than 21 days cleared, but not appeals
When asked about the clearing of the backlog, department spokesperson Amy Barrilleaux told PolitiFact Wisconsin that it was absolutely cleared by Dec. 30, 2020.
All claims 21 days or older, she said, had been assigned to an adjudicator at that point, which in the eyes of the U.S. Department of Labor means the claim has been processed.
But even though all the claims had been assigned to adjudicators, unemployed Wisconsinites still had to wait for their claims to be resolved, which can take days or weeks, depending on the complexity of the claim -- a point Barrilleaux acknowledged.
At the time the department announced the end of the backlog, there were 9,000 claims assigned for adjudication, going to about 500 adjudicators, according to a Dec. 30, 2020 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report.
Asked if any outstanding claims from 2020 are still in adjudication, Barrilleaux would not say, but she noted no claims from 2020 are awaiting assignment to an adjudicator.
At this stage in 2021, there are roughly 2,100 claims awaiting adjudication, and on average claims are being assigned to an adjudicator after 7.4 days, far less than the 21 days considered standard for non-pandemic years.
So, while the state touted the backlog was eliminated, it didn’t mean everyone had their case resolved.
Similarly, a backlog of appeals was not cleared up.
When an unemployment claim is denied, the applicant can seek an appeal hearing, in which the claimant and former employer go before an administrative law judge.
According to another Dec. 30, 2020 report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Pechacek acknowledged the backlog, and said the department was working to hire more administrative law judges to manage the load of appeals. At that time, Pechacek estimated about 15,000 appeals were awaiting assignment to a judge, a number she said was too high.
But since then, the number of appeals awaiting assignment has continued to grow, not shrink.
As of Feb. 20, 2021, more than 16,117 appeals were still pending, according to the department website.
Barrilleaux said that the backlog of appeals is mostly caused by a lack of judges and the historic volume of appeals. About 50,000 people filed an appeal in 2020, and 30,972 of those cases had moved through the appeals process as of January, Barrilleaux said.
The department is currently hearing appeals from September.
Our ruling
At the end of December, Pechacek said the state had eliminated its backlog of unemployment claims.
That was accurate, at least by the measure used by the Department of Labor. But on a practical level, that didn’t mean that the cases had all been resolved. To the contrary, many cases had simply been assigned to an adjudicator at that point, and were awaiting a final decision. And a high volume of appeals meant a delay at that stage as well.
Our definition of Half True is "The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context."
That fits here.
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26 | Facebook posts | 2021-03-10 00:00:00 | a Facebook post:
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Diesel prices jumped from $1.69 to $3.19 since Biden took office, and the president is to blame.
| Eric Litke | 2021-03-17 00:00:00 | pants-fire | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/17/facebook-posts/biden-not-blame-rising-diesel-or-gas-prices/ |
Biden not to blame for rising diesel (or gas) prices
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A new party in the White House means it’s time for a time-honored American tradition — the blame game.
Anything wrong in the world is now the fault of the two-month old administration. Or the fault of the prior administration, depending on your political persuasion.
With gas prices on the move, this exercise is in full effect on social media. That includes a widely-shared March 10, 2021 Facebook post.
"When Sleepy Joe Came In Diesel Was $1.69," it reads. "Today Diesel Is $3.19. Thanks To All That Voted For This Clown."
This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook).
This poster gets it wrong on both the specifics and the blame. Here’s why.
Wrong numbers
Diesel prices are indeed up. The March 15 national average of $3.07 was the highest since June 2019.
But the numbers in the post are way off the mark.
The national average price for diesel was $2.64 per gallon on Jan. 20 when President Joe Biden, a Democrat, took the oath of office, according to GasBuddy.com price trackers. That’s almost a dollar higher than the post claims. Meanwhile, the March 10 national average was $3.04, less than the post claimed.
So, there was an increase, but a far smaller one.
Weekly price data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows similar movement, from $2.70 to $3.14 based on the weeks closest to those points in time.
In Wisconsin, meanwhile, diesel rose from $2.50 to $2.90 between January 20 and March 10, according to GasBuddy.
The poster did not respond to a message from PolitiFact Wisconsin seeking evidence of his claim. He lives in Iowa, according to his profile, but using local numbers doesn’t help his case much. GasBuddy shows prices in Des Moines rose over that span from $2.45 to $3.00 per gallon, a slightly larger jump, but still far from the post’s claim.
Biden not to blame for spikes
The post — like many others pointing a finger at Biden over prices at the pump — is also wrong on the fundamental blame element. The price movement we’re seeing now on both diesel and gas isn’t related to Biden’s policy changes, experts say.
For starters, the trend predates Biden. Diesel prices have steadily risen since the start of November, when Republican President Donald Trump was in office.
And Biden’s policies aren’t having any immediate impact. Biden shut down the planned Keystone XL pipeline expansion, which was to run from Canada to Nebraska. Experts consulted by PolitiFact said that decision could make oil transportation less efficient longterm, but even then they doubted it would directly affect US costs. Reuters reports existing pipelines and ongoing expansions are expected to be sufficient for the flow between the U.S. and Canada, which provides about half of America’s imported oil.
The president also imposed a 60-day ban on new fracking permits, but that doesn’t affect existing operations. Oil producers weren’t likely to be pursuing new locations now anyhow since they’re scrambling to bring back online production that was scaled back in 2020, experts say.
In reality, diesel and gas prices — like many things in 2021 — are all about the pandemic.
The reduction of economic activity, and people traveling and moving around less, reduced demand for diesel and gas both in 2020, causing a related drop in oil production amid steep financial losses in the oil industry. The Energy Information Administration, an independent government agency that provides analysis for policymakers and the public, said demand for diesel fell 8% in 2020, while demand for gas dropped by 13%.
Demand is now rising quickly as the COVID-19 picture improves and the economy rebounds, but it takes time to get the supply back to normal. The Energy Information Administration says crude oil production in the U.S. was down in 2020 and will drop again in 2021 "as a result of a decline in drilling activity related to low oil prices." It projects an increase in 2022.
"We’re headed for higher (price) territory until the market sees more crude oil, whether that’s supplied from the U.S. or Canadian interests or OPEC," said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy.com. "We are in a pretty significant imbalance. Demand has screamed higher, and production has been moving at a turtle’s pace, and part of that is because the depths of the crisis were so severe for oil companies."
Energy and security analyst Patricia Schouker described the same dynamic to AFP, a France-based global news agency, saying recovering demand and limited production has "pushed crude prices to their highest levels since near the start of the coronavirus pandemic."
Outside of market-altering events like the pandemic, prices of both fuels are driven primarily by the cost of crude oil, which is in turn driven by an array of world economic conditions that influence supply and demand.
As Schouker noted, presidents have "‘very little direct influence" over gas and diesel prices.
De Haan said the irony of blaming Biden is that the increasing demand is related to the growing economy. So the people prone to wrongly blame Biden for gas prices would also be slow to credit him for the economy, even though those are two sides of the same coin.
Our ruling
A Facebook post claims Diesel prices have risen from $1.69 to $3.19 since Biden took office, blaming him for that jump.
The numbers aren’t close to right — the actual increase was more like 40 cents, not $1.50.
The blame element is equally off base. Diesel (and gas) prices are rising due to swelling demand as movement and economic activity increase amid the coronavirus recovery. Expert say it could take until 2022 for oil production to return to pre-pandemic levels, causing a shortage in the meantime that will drive prices up.
We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
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27 | Veronica Escobar | 2021-03-14 00:00:00 | a CNN |
"We saw the increases (of unaccompanied minors at the southern U.S. border) dating back almost a year."
| Miriam Valverde | 2021-03-17 00:00:00 | mostly-true | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/17/veronica-escobar/did-increase-children-arriving-border-start-under-/ |
Did the increase of children arriving at the border start under Trump or Biden?
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The rising numbers of children arriving alone at the southern border pose "an enormous challenge," but President Joe Biden’s election isn’t what triggered the surge, said U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas.
What’s happening at the border is "the consequence of four years of dismantling every system in place to address this with humanity and compassion," Escobar told Jake Tapper, co-host of CNN’s State of the Union on March 14.
She added: "I do want to also point out, Jake, that we began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president. We saw the increases dating back almost a year. And this was during the Trump administration."
Rep. Veronica Escobar says an influx of migrants at the US-Mexico border is “an enormous challenge and it’s unacceptable.”“What we are seeing today is the consequence of four years of dismantling every system in place to address this with humanity and compassion.” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/HtPRCmIHmP— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) March 14, 2021
Is Escobar right that the rise started under the Trump administration? Yes, the increase did start about a year ago. At this point though, there’s not enough data to measure to what extent Biden’s election has influenced migration. Border officials publish migration data by month, not day. So far, February is the only full month Biden has been in office.
Arrivals started increasing under Trump, data show
Escobar is correct that arrivals at the southern border began increasing almost a year ago, before Biden was elected president. But the arrival of unaccompanied children increased sharply since January.
Border Patrol’s "encounters" count includes people who are taken into the custody of agents between ports of entry and people who are quickly expelled from trying to enter the country under a public health rule launched in March 2020.
Data shows that Border Patrol encounters went down in April 2020 compared with March 2020, but picked up in May 2020. The numbers have generally been increasing since then, for all migrants and for unaccompanied minors. (There was a slight decrease from October to November in the encounters of unaccompanied children.)
Border Patrol data tracks events, not people. If a person tries to cross the border three times in a one month and is expelled each time, Border Patrol records three expulsions, for instance.
Factors fueling migration
About three weeks into Biden’s administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection released January data which showed a continued increase in attempted monthly border crossings. "The uptick seems to be occurring in a small fraction of locations across the southwest border, which is consistent with trends in years past," said Troy Miller, a CBP senior official performing the duties of the commissioner.
The agency tied the increase to several factors, including crime and instability in migrants’ home countries and "inaccurate perceptions" of changes in immigration and border policies.
Smugglers have taken advantage of Biden’s election, said David Bier, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
"Some migrants do believe that Biden will be more favorable to them, that's largely based on the smugglers' misinformation and propaganda and a very small slice of truth," Bier said.
But Bier maintained that if Donald Trump had won re-election, these smugglers would have changed their sales pitch, promoting tunnels and other ways to get into the United States.
White House officials have acknowledged that despite their message that the border is closed, smugglers are telling people a different story.
"When we talk about the border not being open and the ways in which we’re trying to dissuade people from making that dangerous journeys, the smugglers are conveying exactly the opposite to people," said Roberta S. Jacobson, who oversees border issues in the Biden administration, March 10.
The arrival of unaccompanied children is something that seems to ebb and flow, regardless of who is president, said Tony Payan, director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Payan said it’s too early to tell if Biden’s policies are what’s driving an increase in recent arrivals, because other factors that prompt migration still exist. More people tend to come in the spring and the summer. And high poverty and crime in Central America — factors that push people out of their countries — have not changed, he said.
Some Trump policies spurred the arrival of unaccompanied children, Bier said.
Under the Trump-era Remain in Mexico program, families who asked for asylum in the United States were sent to Mexico to wait there as their cases moved through the system. It can take months or years for U.S. authorities to process asylum claims, so many migrants set up makeshift tents in border towns to wait.
Unaccompanied children were generally not turned away under the program. So when families realized they could "face months or years of homelessness in very dangerous cities in Mexico, many parents and their kids decided to separate," Bier wrote in a blog post.
Also, when the Trump administration began expelling migrants under the public health rule, it applied to single travelers, unaccompanied children and families. But a federal judge in November ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling unaccompanied children.
As a result of that court ruling, Bier said, many parents who were once expelled along with their children decided to send their kids back to the United States alone so they'd be let in.
But Biden is the one setting policy now "and his policies are partly contributing to what's happening at the border," Bier said.
For example, an appeals court in January said that the federal government could resume expelling unaccompanied children. Yet, the Biden administration continues to accept unaccompanied children, Bier said.
Biden’s administration also has started letting in asylum seekers who were waiting in Mexico and stopped enrolling people in the Remain in Mexico program.
"There is a risk that more migrants, especially those faced with the harshest push factors, may think that there is a greater chance to get into the U.S. now that asylum seekers are being processed inside the U.S.," Payan said.
Our ruling
Escobar said of unaccompanied minors at the southern border, "We saw the increases dating back almost a year."
It is true that the rise started in spring 2020 during the Trump administration. But it’s also worth noting that there was a sharp increase this year from January to February.
Biden’s election and misleading messaging from smugglers may have influenced some people to migrate to the U.S. More data in coming months will help better gauge the impact his election and policies have on migration.
Escobar’s statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it Mostly True.
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Dataset compiled for the article "LLaMA 3 vs. State-of-the-Art LLMs: Performance in Detecting Nuanced Fake News" based on Politifact Factcheck Data, available at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shivkumarganesh/politifact-factcheck-data language:" - en license: llama3.1
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