Questions tagged [immigration]
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
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Does the SPLC's citation of a quote from Dan Stein in his 1997 interview with Tucker Carlson accurately reflect his full remarks from said interview?
I recently found a claim from the Southern Poverty Law Center that alleges the Federation for American Immigration Reform is a hate group. One of the pieces of evidence they provide to substantiate ...
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Has it only been since the 1990s that people have started talking about illegal entry into the USA? [closed]
I saw this claim on the politics stack exchange in a highly upvoted post... And I have to ask, is this true?
It's only been since the 1990s that people have started talking about illegal entry into ...
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Are Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckle tattoos MS13 related? [closed]
President Trump has shown a photo of Garcia's left hand with four symbols tattooed on it, a marijuana leaf, a smiley face with crossed out eyes, a cross, and a skull, and has said that it represents ...
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Is the UK government funding a social media campaign talking negatively about Britain to discourage Albanians from migrating?
According to The i Paper,
The Government has funded a social media campaign to deter Albanian migrants from illegally moving to Britain, as part of a multimillion pound scheme, that highlights ...
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Are 1/20 undocumented immigrants married to American citizens?
The Washington Post reported,
An estimated 500,000 immigrants, most from Mexico, married to U.S. citizens will be eligible to apply for permanent residency through their spouses. Federal law requires ...
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Has Trump built just 5 miles of wall where no barrier existed?
CNN’s Daniel Dale said just said this, in the course of fact-checking President Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention:
[President Trump] boasted about building about 300 ...
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Are 20% of cleaners, store packers, and food and hospitality workers in Australia on temporary visas?
In a recent Facebook post, Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts makes the claim that 20% of Australia's cleaners, store packers and food hospitality workers are on temporary migrant visas.
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Does illegal immigration change the U.S. electorate as claimed by Larry Elder?
In this episode of Rubin Report Larry Elder claims:
The country has changed in part, in my opinion, because of immigration, including illegal immigration. People who are coming to the country ...
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Is Hungary's border fence with Serbia (almost) entirely electrified?
The BBC (March, 2019) says Hungary's border fence with Serbia consists of "170 km of electrified barbed wire" (at 0:30-0:35 in the video). 170km is basically the whole length of the border ...
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Could a foreign head of government be inadmissible to the US because of past drug use?
From the Guardian:
Michael Gove’s admission that he took cocaine 20 years ago has triggered speculation that if he were to become the next British prime minister, he could be banned from visiting the ...
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Does illegal immigration in the United States strain social services?
A New York Post opinion piece reported on a survey regarding Republican thoughts and feelings on illegal immigration:
Respondents were asked: “What do you think is the biggest challenge illegal ...
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Will the United Nations global compact on migration make it a criminal offense to criticize migration?
Liberty Nation and the Sunday Express cite MEP Marcel de Graaff from the Dutch Party for Freedom as saying:
“One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the
definition of hate ...
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Do leftist groups claim that "the Caravan" was "cooked up by Republican operatives"?
The Wired article Alert: Don't Believe Everything You Read About the Migrant Caravan covers various claims from the right, with specific sources attributed: Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, President ...
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Were illegally immigrating children held in cages during the Obama administration?
Were children separated from their parents when they were caught on the Mexican border by US officials as illegal immigrants before Trump's introduction of zero tolerance immigration policy?
I wasn't ...
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Are a third of the crimes in Italy committed by migrants?
The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is being criticized after numerous racist assaults happened after he introduced his anti-immigration policy:
Italian Far Right's Salvini Under Fire After ...
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Does George Soros support plans for immigrants flows into Europe?
The idea that Geoge Soros and his Open Society Foundation is promoting the flows of immigrants into Europe is often cited as one of the main reasons why these flows exist and are not stopping anytime ...
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Was—or is?—there an ICE checkpoint at the 23rd Street N/Q/R/W subway station in Manhattan? [closed]
All around social media this past Tuesday in New York City a viral message claiming there was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "checkpoint” at the 23rd Street N/Q/R/W subway station ...
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Did Obama have a policy of "separating [migrant] families"?
Politfact says,
While the Obama administration's immigration approach was not without controversy, it’s simply untrue to say he had a policy of separating families.
Did any policy though result in ...
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Are roughly 90% of H-1B visa workers in the IT sector paid below-market rates?
In an article penned last year by (present and former) IEEE-USA presidents, we read that (my experpts and emphsis):
In 2014 (the last year we have good data), Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, and Tata ...
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Are these images showing the European refugee migration to North Aftrica during world war 2?
I recently encountered the following images in Facebook with the caption:
"These aren't Syrians, Libyans or Africans; they are Europeans trying to get to North Africa during the last world war. So, ...
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Are a majority of grade-school children in Arizona Hispanic?
Conservative pundit Mark Steyn just said this to Fox News' Tucker Carlson:
In Arizona, a majority of the grade-school children now are Hispanic. That means Arizona's future is as an Hispanic society....
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Is Britain's housing crisis caused by migrants?
In the Sunday Times on 26th November 2017, journalist Rod Liddle makes a case for our need to build new houses being exclusively due to immigration. He claims that the demand for new houses is not due ...
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Was Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz fired because he revealed that migrant adults were fraudulently posing as children?
The Gateway Pundit writes:
Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz revealed to authorities that after checking the molar teeth of hundreds of migrant children that 80% of the so-called children were actually ...
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Do African Immigrants have the highest academic achievement in the U.S. of any ethnic group?
An article doing the rounds on my Facebook feed claims that African immigrants are the most successful group in the United States when it comes to academic achievement. African-born immigrants are ...
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Do the Swedish police have a special code for immigrant crimes?
An article I read today asserts the Swedish police have a special 'code 291' for crimes committed by muslim immigrants. This code would be used to 'bury' crimes such as sexual assault by refugees. A ...
