U.S. Border Patrol agents uncovered thousands of FEMA relief packages left along the southern border by former President Joe Biden’s administration to feed migrants.
A rumor that circulated online in early May 2025 claimed U.S. Border Patrol agents uncovered thousands of Federal Emergency Management Agency relief packages left along the southern border by former President Joe Biden’s administration to feed migrants.
For example, on May 5, a TikTok user expressing support for President Donald Trump posted (archived) a Facebook post screenshot allegedly showing uniformed Border Patrol agents uncovering packages displaying FEMA labeling. As of this writing, the video had received more than 158,000 views.
(@maga_kindom/TikTok)
The image read:
Border Patrol uncovered thousands of FEMA relief packages scattered in storage locations along the southern border, put there by the Biden administration to feed illegals as they crossed.
The packages were rerouted in 2024 from Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.
Numerous other users shared images or videos displaying the same photo and text on Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived), Threads (archived), Truth Social (archived) and X (archived).
Some readers seemed to interpret the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life events. However, searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo found no credible news media outlets reporting on this matter.
Rather, the rumor about Border Patrol agents finding FEMA relief packages originated with America’s Last Line of Defense — a network of Facebook pages and websites whose owner described their output as being satirical in nature. A small “ALLOD” watermark logo appeared near the bottom-right corner of the Facebook post screenshot.
A reverse-image search using TinEye.com found information about the photo included with the posts. According to the Alamy image-licensing website (archived), an unidentified photographer captured the picture in Connecticut on Nov. 3, 2011. The original caption read in part, “Members of the Connecticut National Guard work with FEMA to provide drinking water and meals-ready-to-eat to residents recovering from the effects of an October severe storm that dumped snow in many parts of the state, downing trees and utility lines.”
Snopes contacted representatives for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and FEMA by email but did not yet receive any official statements. Border Patrol operates under the authority of CBP. CBP and FEMA are both component agencies of the Department of Homeland Security.
America’s Last Line of Defense
The America’s Last Line of Defense Facebook page first featured the claim in a post (archived) on May 4. As of this writing, the post had received nearly 10,000 shares. The page’s bio reads, “The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash. Nothing on this page is real.” Other posts on the Facebook page also feature images with a label displaying “S” for “satire.”
(America’s Last Line of Defense/Facebook)
A manager for the ALLOD Facebook page shared a comment under the post, furthering the satirical story:
We’ve traced the source of this story to a pair of teenagers in Texas who purchased those fake “Border Patrol” windbreakers on Amazon so they could stand in front of Home Depot to scare away Mexicans.
“We’ve caught up with the boys and learned that they took the FEMA packages without permission,” said Arkansas Attorney General Joe Barron, “Then they put them in Yeti coolers they collected from conservative trash cans back in 2019 and spread them out across the border to make it look like Biden was feeding the illegals.”
Barron said the boys won’t be prosecuted because ultimately, they meant to hurt Joe Biden and the libs, which qualifies them for amnesty in 13 states now.
Thank God for kids like these. Did we mention that at 17 years old, each of them has an AR-15 collection that would rival a small police department? Well done, parents!
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources calling their output humorous or satirical.