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Donald Trump has repeatedly used the phrase "These aren't people; these are animals" in public remarks about migrants and criminals, and multiple reputable outlets reported him saying immigrants were ...
The “devil horns” or sign of the horns is a family of related hand gestures whose basic form — extended index and little finger with the middle and ring fingers held down — is widely used to ward off ...
Estimates of MS‑13’s U.S. membership vary by source: a Department of Justice fact sheet cited by USA Today says “over 10,000” MS‑13 members live in the United States , while multi‑year academic resear...
Estimates of MS‑13 membership vary widely by source: a commonly cited U.S. estimate is “up to 10,000” members in the United States , while broader academic work has estimated the gang’s global members...
The reporting and government statements in mid- to late-2025 link to violence or plots targeting ICE and CBP agents, citing Mexican cartels broadly and naming groups such as and , along with allegatio...
Kilmar Ábrego García has publicly said he worked in construction and as a sheet‑metal worker and that he sometimes transported groups of workers between sites; unions and his lawyers have described hi...
ICE and DHS statements emphasize arrests of “murderers, rapists, gang members” in recent operations, while independent data and reporting show a large share of ICE detainees had no criminal record—nea...
Government agencies and law enforcement reporting shows that some MS‑13 members arrested or deported in recent years have been in the United States without legal status, while many captured by U.S. au...
Available reporting documents multiple incidents where ICE employees and their families were doxxed, threatened, followed home, and in at least one case targeted with live harassment and arrest of all...
Courts and prosecutors prove MS‑13 membership through a mix of documentary evidence, witness testimony (including co‑conspirators and confidential sources), law‑enforcement gang databases, and defenda...
members face a combination of severe criminal penalties—ranging from long federal sentences for racketeering and violent crime to state murder convictions—and parallel immigration consequences includi...
MS‑13 maintains the strongest, most documented presences in parts of California and the U.S. East Coast—especially the New York/New Jersey metro area and the Washington, D.C. region—while law enforcem...
Media coverage of Antifa is more polarized and often more delegitimizing than coverage of many other U.S. social justice movements, with reporting patterns shaped by partisan narratives, rhetorical fr...
Kristi Noem has been publicly associated with warnings about to U.S. law enforcement, but the specific allegation that cartels placed *bounties on ICE agents* lacks direct corroboration in the availab...