Claim
A recent video showing a huge crowd of immigrants from Mexico storming towards the US border.
Such posts can be seen here and here.
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Fact
A Google lens search on the keyframes of the viral video led us to an X post by @ElPasoYa, dated March 13, 2023, carrying the same footage, showing a massive crowd pushing the security guards and attempting to enter the Mexico-US border.
Another X account @AlbertoRodNews also shared the same footage on March 13, 2023, and stated, “Crisis on the US border: Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants forcibly entered through an international bridge between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas (translated from Spanish via Google)”.
Elaborating on the incident, a Reuters report stated, “U.S officials stopped hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants entering the country from Mexico on Sunday after a large group broke through Mexican lines to demand asylum in the U.S, only to be thwarted by barbed wire, barriers and shields. Frustrated with problems securing appointments to seek asylum using a new US government app, the migrants gathered at the frontier in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, but could not breach the crossing connecting the two countries.”
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Hence, the viral video showing migrants rushing towards the Mexico-US border was found to be old.
Result: Missing Context
Sources
X Post By @ElPasoYa, Dated March 13, 2023
X Post By @AlbertoRodNews, Dated March 13, 2023
Report By Reuters, Dated March 13, 2023
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