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Immigration entry records and custody/release records confirm Tapia's entry date (October 23, 2022) and that he was released into the country by the referenced administration.
Available public reporting confirms that U.S. and Ecuadorian authorities identify Tomás Espín Tapia as an Ecuadorian national in an irregular immigration situation in the United States who was arrested in Minneapolis and is wanted in Ecuador for murder, with prior robbery and sexual assault-related allegations. However, no independent primary records accessible to the public—such as court filings, ICE/CBP case documents, or official DHS/ICE data releases separate from the press release being fact-checked—provide verifiable details about the exact date of his entry (October 23, 2022) or the specific circumstances of any prior release into the U.S. by the Biden administration. A Newsmax report explicitly notes that DHS did not immediately release details on Tapia’s immigration timeline, reinforcing the absence of corroborating public evidence on those specific points. Given current information, the precise entry date and whether he was formally released into the country by the Biden administration cannot be confirmed or disproven from independent, authoritative sources.
The verdict is Unverifiable because there is insufficient independent, primary-source evidence in the public record to confirm the claimed October 23, 2022 illegal entry date or the assertion that he was released into the U.S. by the Biden administration, beyond the DHS press communication that is itself the subject of the fact-check.