Remembering the Border Patrol ‘Whip’ Smear, One Year Later

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U.S. Border Patrol officers chase migrant asylum seekers as they try to return to the United States along the Rio Grande River, seen from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 19, 2021.

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Welcome back to Forgotten Fact-Checks, a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we lament a year’s worth of slander at the southern border, a misleading Washington Post report on “gender-affirming care,” and hit more media misses.

Imagined Abuse in the Rio Grande

Isaac Schorr

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Isaac Schorr

Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

Brittany Bernstein

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Brittany Bernstein

Brittany Bernstein is the deputy news editor of National Review Online.

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