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TexasTowelie

(117,292 posts)
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 03:50 AM Nov 2021

Fact-check: Rep. Mary Miller's claim about Mexican caravan the size of Minneapolis not gonna make it [View all]

A Republican congresswoman from east central Illinois took aim at President Joe Biden’s immigration policies by claiming hundreds of thousands of migrants are preparing to cross the nation’s southern border.

“The Biden-Harris caravan is the population of Minneapolis and will enter our country with no vetting, no criminal background checks, no COVID testing and no vaccine requirements,” freshman U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of downstate Oakland tweeted on Oct. 23 atop a video showing a large group of migrants marching from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula.

PolitiFact has debunked numerous claims from others that were part of Miller’s statement, including the Biden administration would allow anyone to cross the border or skip COVID testing and other public safety measures. So we decided to focus this fact-check on Miller’s claim about the size of the recent Tapachula group.

Minneapolis, Minn., is home to nearly 430,000 people, according to the U.S. Census, while the highest estimate we found for the group leaving Tapachula was less than 1% of that total. The congresswoman, who took office in January, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Our ruling

We rate Miller’s claim Pants on Fire!

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/10/31/22753615/fact-check-immigraton-border-caravan-mexico-mary-miller-minneapolis-politifact

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