Customs and Border Protection Coverage

How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending April 25

A look at how North Carolina members of Congress voted during the previous week.

Targeted News Service

Fact check: Has Biden deported more people in nine months than in past years?

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas rebutted the unfounded theory that the Biden administration is allowing migrants to illegally enter the U.S. to increase the Democrats' chances of winning elections.

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Rubio says Biden 'will not detain the people who enter this country illegally'

Is President Joe Biden the first U.S. president ever who will not detain immigrants in the U.S. illegally? That's what Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on Fox News Sunday.

Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Are illegal crossings up 800% along the northern U.S. border?

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who represents a geographically large district in the North Country and Adirondack Park, said on Fox News that the number of illegal crossings is 800% higher than it has been in the past.

Jill Terreri Ramos, PolitiFact reporter

How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending Jan. 18

A look at how North Carolina members of Congress voted during the previous week.

Targeted News Service

Fact check: Have '8 million' migrants come to the U.S. under Biden?

Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis have each claimed that 8 million immigrants have entered the U.S. through the southern border since Joe Biden became president.

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact reporter

Unlawful border crossings hit high for the year with over 200,000 apprehensions in September

Border Patrol apprehended more than 200,000 migrants crossing the US-Mexico border unlawfully in September, according to a Homeland Security official, marking the highest total this year and underscoring the ongoing challenges for the Biden administration amid mass migration in the region.

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN

DRAUGHON DRAWS: Part 2- "From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome." Well, never mind

Thursday, July 28, 2023 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

DRAUGHON DRAWS: "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me." ... Well, never mind

Thursday, July 27, 2023 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

Fact-checking Rep. Virginia Foxx's claim about the U.S. asylum process

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said during a July 17 committee meeting that migrants are supposed to "apply for asylum in the country where they are, and then they try to come into the United States."

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Did Biden and Democrats 'dismantle' border security?

Nevada's Republican candidate for Senate, Adam Laxalt, launched a campaign ad saying President Biden and Democrats "have dismantled border security." PolitiFact checks his claim.

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Does U.S. spend more on undocumented immigrants than veterans?

In a video of a meeting with voters, Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters said of undocumented immigrants: "Not only will you not be deported, but we'll treat you better than U.S. military veterans." PolitiFact checks the numbers.

Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Ad says Democrats opposed hiring more border agents, deporting felons, ending 'catch and release'

A television ad by the Citizens for Sanity group says: "Every single Senate Democrat voted against hiring more border agents. They voted against deporting felons. And they voted against ending catch and release." PolitiFact checks the claim.

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: In two months, did border agents seize more fentanyl than in 2019?

The West Virginia Republican Party recently took to Twitter to criticize President Joe Biden for the continuing flow of fentanyl into the country, tweeting: "More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in 2019 under Trump." PolitiFact checks the claim.

Megan Bevins and Pearse Costello, PolitiFact reporters

DRAUGHON DRAWS: Gov. DeSantis' not-so-friendly skies

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

US Customs agents can take and keep phone data of people entering the country

Anyone who has traveled outside the country may already know that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has the right to search the phones and other electronic devices of anyone entering the country - including U.S. citizens -- without a warrant.

US Customs can search, save the data from your phone without a warrant

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, exposed the existence of a database used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to keep personal data on file.

Laura Leslie, WRAL capitol bureau chief

Fact check: Did the U.S. set new record for immigrant border crossings?

U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis, tweeted: "With three months remaining in the Fiscal Year, (the border patrol) has already encountered more illegal immigrants along the Southwest border" than in any previous fiscal year. PolitiFact checks his claim.

Vanessa Swales, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Is Biden choosing to send baby formula to the border?

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the Biden administration is choosing to send baby formula to the border as one of its "out-of-touch priorities." PolitiFact checks that claim.

Madison Czopek, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Did border patrol seize enough fentanyl to kill every American 7 times?

In an April 1 press release, U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., raised the alarm about fentanyl being smuggled into the United States: "In Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21), 11,201 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Customs and Border Protection, which is enough to kill every American nearly seven times over." PolitiFact checks her claim.

Elizabeth Egan and Marnique Panepento, PolitiFact reporters

Fact check: Is Biden 'giving smartphones away' to border crossers?

A tool used by the government to track people who entered the country illegally is being mischaracterized on social media as a smartphone giveaway. PolitiFact explains what's happening at the border.

Andy Nguyen, PolitiFact reporter

Man charged after trying to smuggle more than 50 reptiles into U.S.

U.S. border agents in California arrested a man for trying to smuggle reptiles into the country.

Fact-checking rumor about immigrant drop-offs near Charlotte

A North Carolina Congressional candidate said ICE has been illegally releasing immigrants in Huntersville "at big box retail locations. Feds aren't notifying anyone, just making secret drops at 3am." PolitiFact NC checks his claim.

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Are migrants causing the spike in COVID cases?

School board members in North Carolina's Cabarrus and Union counties recently suggested that COVID-19 infections among migrants are causing the spike in cases across the country. PolitiFact reviews the state and national data.

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Are border crossings up because Biden stopped deportations, wall construction?

U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) said "illegal border crossings are up 173% from 1 year ago and 28% since January when President Biden stopped the wall & deportations and started catch & release." PolitiFact North Carolina finds problems with Hudson's tweet.

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter