In May 2025, online users shared a rumor claiming former U.S. President Joe Biden's administration placed thousands of Federal Emergency Management Agency relief packages along the southern border to feed migrants. According to the rumor, Border Patrol agents uncovered the packages, discovering their original destination as southern states devastated by Hurricane Helene.
Several (archived) users (archived) on Facebook (archived) and X (archived) shared an image allegedly showing uniformed Border Patrol agents uncovering packages displaying FEMA labeling.
(Timothy Hinkles/Facebook)
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. Any liberals want to defend this corruption? Nevermind, you don't believe it anyways.
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."
A representative for U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Snopes that Border Patrol agents did not intercept FEMA relief packages. FEMA did not yet respond to a request for an official statement. 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 (ALLOD) Facebook page first featured the claim in a post (archived) on May 4. As of this writing, the post had received around 9,500 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."
On May 18, a page manager for ALLOD posted (archived) the rumor again, this time with a label reading "ALLOD" and an "S" for "satire." The text caption above the meme read, "He was stealing from Americans to feed invaders."
(America's Last Line of Defense/Facebook)
A manager for the ALLOD Facebook page shared a comment under the post, furthering the satirical story:
There was a whole story behind how this happened, patriots. A couple of teenagers bought those ICE vests from Amazon to scare Mexicans in front of Home Depot. One thing led to another, and the next thing you know, they're hijacking FEMA trucks and distributing the goods along the border to frame Biden.
Since they were trying to own the libs, they got a pass, but had it been anyone else, there would have been hell to pay!
The fictional rumor circulated around the same time several states including Kentucky, Missouri and others recovered from devastating storms and tornadoes.
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources calling their output humorous or satirical.