The Department of Homeland Security, not content with simply conducting a mass deportation campaign, apparently decided the raw facts weren't sufficiently cinematic. In at least six documented violent encounter cases, evidence directly contradicted the official narratives presented by immigration officials — including one instance where Secretary Kristi Noem stood before cameras to display a recovered firearm, while the affidavit told a rather different story about who was actually in the car. In that case, the man officials had named as the suspect was not even driving the vehicle in question; the actual driver fled to an apartment building where the named individual happened to be present. The distinction between 'man in a car' and 'man in a building' is, one might think, the kind of thing investigators notice before the press conference. The official explanation, to the extent one existed, amounted to confident repetition of the original claims. Reuters documented six such episodes. The department has not, at time of publication, announced a seventh press conference to correct the first six. In Washington, this passes for quality control.