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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,...
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...
Answer depends on the question’s definition: if the inquiry targets deaths of people while in U.S. federal immigration custody during , reporting based on government records and later FOIA-based inves...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
, , , and are repeatedly cited as among the U.S. cities with the strongest sanctuary policies, each backed by formal ordinances or longstanding municipal rules that limit local cooperation with . Fede...
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...
The claim that deliberately want "illegal aliens" counted in the U.S. Census chiefly to gain more congressional seats is overstated: Democrats have repeatedly defended the long-standing constitutional...
The best peer‑reviewed, source‑by‑source evidence available shows are arrested for sexual assault at substantially lower rates than ‑born citizens—roughly half as often in the study that directly reco...
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...
and the under trended downward overall while the administration simultaneously increased formal removals and prioritized criminal and recent border crossers for deportation—moves that produced both re...
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...
A clear national tally is elusive because state laws have been passed in waves and federal agencies have produced competing lists, but reporting shows roughly a dozen states have enacted statutes that...
Estimates vary sharply depending on how “Somali” and “welfare” are defined: a Minnesota state demographer’s reading of the Census’s 2019–2023 American Community Survey puts roughly 8% (range 6.3%–10.1...