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How misinfo about New Orleans truck attack suspects immigration status spread [Video]

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In the hours after the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street, people on social media falsely claimed the suspect was in the U.S. illegally.

In the wake of the suspected terror attack, some prominent public officials, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and other people online claimed the attacker, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was in the U.S. illegally. These types of claims also prompted some people to blame ineffective border security for the attack, with one person writing in a viral X post that President Joe Biden “caused it with his wide open border.” 

The claims about Jabbar’s citizenship status are false. The FBI said Jabbar, who was killed by police, was a U.S. citizen from Texas. Jabbar was also an Army veteran

But the confusion about Jabbar’s citizenship status continues, prompting a viewer to text us on Thursday morning asking if the suspect was an immigrant in the U.S. illegally. 

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