Instagram posts: The government pays out “$2,125/month in refugee benefits to refugees resettled in the United States,” while Social Security recipients “who have paid into the system their whole lives receive $1,400/month on average.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False
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DIEGO GARCIA: STEALING A NATION AND HOW ‘INTERNATIONAL RULES’ DON’T APPLY IF IT IS THE US OR UK
One of John Pilger’s most remarkable documentaries, bringing a little-known story to a wide audience, is Stealing a Nation, about how British governments ruthlessly expelled the population of the Chagos Islands, a crown colony in the Indian Ocean, in the late 1960s and early 70s to make way for an American military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.
DIEGO GARCIA: STEALING A NATION AND HOW ‘INTERNATIONAL RULES’ DON’T APPLY IF IT IS THE US OR UK
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 