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Available sources show multiple ways of counting “deportations” under President Joe Biden: DHS/ICE dashboards and reporting cite annual removals like about 271,000–272,000 in FY2024 while analyses tha...
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reports that 59% of households headed by an illegal immigrant used at least one welfare program in its recent analysis of the 2022 Survey of Income and Program...
Available sources show a range of figures but consistently report that the Obama administration carried out more removals/deportations than most recent presidents: reporting includes “more than 2 mill...
Somali immigrant households in Minnesota are reported by multiple sources to have exceptionally high rates of public‑benefit use — figures as high as 81 percent of Somali households receiving some for...
As of mid- to late‑2025, multiple independent trackers and news analyses find roughly 70–73% of people in ICE custody have no criminal convictions; TRAC reports 73.6% of 65,135 detainees had no convic...
Reporting shows that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) under the Biden administration expanded eligibility for some non‑citizen borrowers—notably DACA recipients with work authorization—to obta...
The short answer: the headline figure “81% of Somalis on welfare” originates from a December report about Somali households in Minnesota and refers to households receiving any form of public benefits,...
Reported shares of Somalis receiving government assistance vary widely depending on which benefit, which population (individuals vs. households), and which geography is measured: one commonly cited fi...
From official U.S. Border Patrol data, there were roughly along the border during fiscal years 2016–2020, but that figure is a precise count of individuals who “entered illegally” because encounters c...
Available reporting does not provide a single, definitive annual dollar figure for how much Minnesota government pays to Somalian immigrants; estimates and assertions vary widely across outlets and ad...
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia are commonly identified by advocacy groups and some reporting as having statewide “sanctuary” laws, policies, or legal opinions—though the exact list and ...
Claims that “President Joe Biden shipped in immigrants” refer to a mix of official parole programs that allowed people to fly directly to U.S. airports under eligibility rules and partisan accusations...
Ilhan Omar has not, in the reporting available in these sources, publicly released a naturalization certificate or passport records; public coverage instead documents disputes and denials around her c...
There is no single, reliable time series in the provided reporting that gives “welfare participation rates” for Somali, Ethiopian, and Nigerian immigrants in the U.S. across the past decade; available...
Available government and analytical reporting shows far more recorded “encounters” at the southern border during the Biden years than during Trump’s first term: about 9.4 million encounters from FY202...
Multiple reports and viral charts have claimed that Somali Americans enroll in SNAP at very high rates—figures floated include about 42% nationally and as high as 54% in some writeups—but these number...
Public reporting centers Minnesota as the state with the highest reported welfare participation among Somali immigrant households: the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) figure widely cited by outle...
Available reporting shows disagreement about how many people deported under Trump II had felony or other criminal convictions. News outlets and researchers report that a large share of recent ICE deta...
Steven Camarota’s 2024 testimony to congressional committees asserts a suite of interconnected claims: that a large surge in illegal immigration since 2021 has materially expanded the U.S. population,...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published statements asserting that roughly 1.6 million people "have left" the United States in a short period in 2025 and later framed that number as par...