Migrants receive help from private groups and government agencies, but they are not getting thousands of dollars each month from the government as Republican Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert claimed to her millions of followers on social media.
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CLAIM: "Biden is giving each illegal family $2,200 per month plus a free plane ticket and free medical care."
VERDICT: Not true.
When we asked where the $2,200 per month dollar amount came from, Boebert’s press office provided a link to an article from The Gateway Pundit.
That is a far-right website known for posting misinformation and election denial claims.
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The Gateway Pundit article cites an anonymous Border Patrol agent for the claim that people are receiving monthly stipends from the government.
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Boebert's lies are such a surprise from someone with such a sterling background, too.
Boebert was born in Altamonte Springs, Florida, on December 19, 1986.[10] When she was 12, she and her family moved to the Montbello neighborhood of Denver and later to Aurora, Colorado, before settling in Rifle, Colorado, in 2003.[11][12] Boebert dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby;[13][14] she earned a GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary.[13][14]
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After Boebert's mother, Shawn Roberts Bentz, accused professional wrestler Stan Lane of fathering Boebert, Lane took two paternity tests, first in the 1980s and the second in 2023, to prove that he was not Boebert's father.[230] According to Boebert: "My mom was 18 when she had me, which inspired me to be a mother when I was 18 years old."[144]
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Boebert claims that her family depended on welfare when she was growing up,[15][13][16] and that she was raised in a Democratic household in a liberal area.[16][17] Records at the Colorado secretary of state's office show that her mother was registered to vote in Colorado as a Republican from 2001 to 2013 and as a Democrat from 2015 to 2020.[16] At age 19, Boebert herself registered to vote in 2006 as a Democrat; in 2008, she changed her affiliation to Republican.[16]
According to Boebert, she became religious while attending a church in Glenwood Springs,[18] and that she became a born-again Christian in 2009.[19] She has said she volunteered at a local jail for seven years, but attendance logs at the Garfield County Sheriff's office show that she volunteered at the jail nine times between May 2014 and November 2016.[20]
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In 2016, Boebert was cited for careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle. On February 13, 2017, she was arrested and booked in Garfield County Jail for failure to appear in court on these charges. She pleaded guilty to the unsafe vehicle charge, and the careless driving and failure to appear charges were dismissed.[238]
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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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