In late January 2018, reports surfaced that supporters of Donald Trump confronted a Native American legislator during an anti-immigration protest at the Arizona state capitol, demanding to know whether he was in the country legally. The viral stories on various web sites (including
The Hill and the liberal
RawStory.com) were all aggregated from the
original reporting of the
Arizona Capitol Times, a nonpartisan weekly newspaper focused on Arizona government and state politics.
We confirmed that one of the anti-immigration protesters did indeed ask an indigenous state representative whether or not he was “legal,” both through video footage of the incident and three corroborating interviews with Arizona state legislators who witnessed the scene.