It's time now for a daily fact checking segment.
Truth or Fake? I'm joined for that by Catalina Marchand,
Diablo. Welcome to the program Catalina.
Now today we're talking about an anti migrant convoy taking
place this week in the US.
Some users are sharing some unrelated videos on social media.
Tell us a bit more about this.
That's right Tom and anti migrant convoy called it take
our border back.
We'll begin today up to February 3rd.
Thousands of people will reportedly leave from Virginia.
Then a split up for a different rallies in a
three border state states or hot or immigration hotspots.
This Saturday taking place in Eagle Pass,
California, Yuma in Arizona and a third in San Isidro,
California. According to Media Matters this anti migrant rally is
organized by right wing extremists including members from the Q
and on the election denial movement and anti vaccination propagandists.
As this take our border back convoy has been amplified
by political figures all over social media.
Not only political figures but it seems people have already
began sharing alleged images of this convoy and route.
We have this first image,
this first tweet, where this user claims that this convoy
is passing through Oklahoma.
Let's take a look at the video
of the convoy allegedly already began going through Oklahoma with
over,
as they claim, 25,000 of vehicles having raised over $1.5
million
already it seems. Then we have a second video that's
going around where these users claim to show this huge
truck
convoy on the way to the border and what seems
to be a very successful anti migrant gathering already.
Tom OK, but as is often the case with these
videos,
we have to take them with an element of
doubt and caution. What do these videos really show,
Catalina? Well Tom, we found that these are both videos
that are being shared on X.
They're also being shared on social media,
on Facebook, on TikTok. These videos are actually not recent
and have nothing to do with the current Anti Migration
Convoy that is going on.
For example, this for this video right here.
We found the original post on Instagram,
already posted back in February
28th, 2022, showing that this video is not at all
recent.
Then we also found that both videos also have nothing
to do with immigration.
Let's pull these videos up.
We found that these videos actually show
the People's Convoy Trucker protest that took place in February
2022, a nationwide convoy that started in California all the
way up to Washington DC to express outrage over
COVID-19 restrictions at the time.
OK, so that dates back a bit.
But what sparked the current Anti Migration Convoy?
Indeed, More specifically, the purpose of this Anti Migration Convoy,
as they point out in this press release,
is to shine a spotlight on the dangers,
on the obvious dangers, as they say,
of open A borders, open southern borders.
This amidst an ongoing immigration crisis in the US as
migrants cross the border.
US bordered in record numbers already back in December.
This resulted in an escalating,
escalating a feud going on this week between Texas and
the Biden administration over immigration enforcement.
As just last week the Supreme Court permitted federal officials
to cut a razor wire barriers that are located in
in Eagle Pass, TX that were set up by the
Texas government.
This was for security reasons as these barbed wires prevented
Border Patrol officials from entering this area and hence processing
migrants or even saving,
assisting and drowning of victims.
As Texas Governor, Greg Abbott is defying at the Supreme
Court ruling as high profile Republicans are also pushing the
Texas Governor in this direction.
OK, well, thank you very much indeed for that,
Kathleen. That much. And de bro with today's edition of
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