"Sen. Katie Britt's Controversial Border Policy Critique Sparks Backlash"

Alabama Sen. Katie Britt used a graphic anecdote during the Republican response to the State of the Union address to criticize President Biden's immigration policies, but the story she described took place in Mexico in the mid-2000s, not during Biden's time as president or vice president. Freelance journalist Jonathan Katz tracked down the story and found that it happened before Biden's presidency. A spokesperson for Britt's office neither confirmed nor denied that she was sharing the account of a human trafficking survivor, but insisted that the story she told was "100% correct."