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    A Fake Supreme Court Ruling

    by Sydney Schaedel Jun 30, 2017 4 minutes

    Q: Did the Supreme Court rule that immigrants living in the U.S. illegally can’t sue anyone if they feel they’ve been mistreated?

    A: No. That claim was made in a bogus story published on satirical and fake news websites.

    FULL ANSWER

    The Supreme Court has not ruled that “illegal aliens … do not, in effect, possess the right to sue anyone in case they feel abused or mistreated.”

    Versions of that bogus claim were made in posts on at least 12 websites in May and June. Facebook users flagged one of the posts, published on DailyInsiderNews.com, as potentially fake news.

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