Digging deep into the immigration surge at the border In an interview on Fox News, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said of undocumented immigrants: "They make their claims under the law. If those claims don't prevail, they are promptly removed from the United States." The operative word in Mayorkas's comment is "promptly." That's certainly open to interpretation. We decided to dig deep in DHS's numbers to see what that means. All noncitizens released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody into the United States are assigned to what is called the non-detained docket and must report to ICE at least once a year. As of August 2020, ICE says, there are over 3.3 million people assigned to the non-detained docket. There are nearly 1.8 million outstanding cases in immigration courts, with an average wait of 855 days, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. Meanwhile, according to a declaration in federal court filed by ICE official Peter Berg, as of Jan. 20, 2021, 1.18 million noncitizens on the non-detained docket were subject to final orders for deportation but had not left the country. There's much more to our detailed report but the bottom line is that Mayorkas, in his remarks, gave the impression of a smooth-running machine: Noncitizens who illegally entered the United States are given their day in court and, if they lose, they promptly are deported. But the reality is much different. He earned Three Pinocchios. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Did Hitler have Jewish blood? Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sparked outrage in Israel when he repeated a long-disputed claim about Adolf Hitler's heritage — that Hitler had Jewish blood. Russian President Vladimir Putin later apologized to the Israeli prime minister. This is a good example of how a murky bit of family history has allowed an often-debunked tale to reemerge from time to time. There's little evidence to support this claim. The source of this story stems from a documented fact: Hitler's father was born out of wedlock and Hitler's grandfather has never been revealed. That left open the possibility that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish — and Hitler himself was one-quarter Jewish. The theory gained new credence with the publication of a memoir by Hitler's personal lawyer (who had been hanged years earlier for war crimes). Hans Frank claimed he had dug into Hitler's ancestry after Hitler's half-nephew threatened to blackmail the Fuehrer into revealing his Jewish past. Most historians say that Frank's account is riddled with errors and cannot be trusted. As for the nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who allegedly tried to blackmail Hitler, he never made such claims publicly, even after he moved to the United States. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. | 
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