Did U.S. Border Patrol find thousands of FEMA relief packages along the southern U.S. border in May 2025, which had been re-routed from hurricane-hit states for the benefit of undocumented immigrants? No, that's not true: That claim originated with a Facebook account that describes its content as satirical. America's Last Line of Defense is a frequent source of fake stories which many internet users mistake for real.
The story was presented as real in a May 5, 2025, post on X (archived here). The caption of the post read "Is anyone surprised about this? ⬇️ Democrats hate American citizens", and the text of the embedded post read as follows:
Border Patrol uncovered thousands of FEMA relief packages scattered in storage locations along the southern border, put there by the Biden administration to feed illegals as they crossed.
The packages were rerouted in 2024 from Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.
This is what it looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot)
In reality, the story was fake, and the source of the screenshot describes its output as satirical.
The original post was published on May 4, 2025, on the "America's Last Line of Defense" Facebook account, which is part of a network of websites and accounts that describes its content in the following way:
Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.
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