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Ilhan Omar is widely reported to have become a U.S. citizen in 2000 after fleeing Somalia and living in the U.S. as a refugee; multiple outlets state she was naturalized in 2000 . Contemporary allegat...
ICE and other DHS agents say their policy forbids arresting or deporting U.S. citizens, but multiple investigations, reporting and congressional actions document hundreds of incidents in which citizen...
Available reporting shows multiple, documented incidents in 2025 where federal immigration agents detained people later identified as U.S. citizens — including high-profile cases in Minneapolis and Ch...
The publicly available reporting assembled for this fact-check finds of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent training program; multiple recent pieces describe hiring drives, curric...
Available sources do not record any foreign governments that have imposed personal sanctions on Donald Trump; reporting in the current dataset instead documents U.S. domestic measures by the Biden and...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many people "were allowed in" during Donald Trump’s first term; reporting and government releases instead focus on enforcement action...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has repeatedly reported that between roughly 1.6 million and 1.9 million people “self‑deported” from the United States since January 20, 2025, a figure the de...
Since the creation of DHS in 2003, funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has , with ICE’s budget growing from roughly $3.3 billion to about $9.6–$9.7 billion by FY2024–FY2025 and ...
A person with a criminal record can sometimes apply to work for ICE, but a criminal conviction is a significant hurdle rather than an automatic bar. Federal suitability and vetting rules, ICE career g...
ICE accepts a range of documents as “probative evidence” of U.S. citizenship — typically a U.S. birth certificate, U.S. passport, Certificate of Naturalization or Certificate of Citizenship, and certa...
No single individual “brought” Somali immigrants to the U.S. in 2025; arrivals have resulted from U.S. refugee, asylum and humanitarian programs and longer-term migration patterns shaped by conflict a...
Available sources show very small Somali-born admissions to the United States before the 1990s — the 1990 U.S. Census counted 2,070 people born in Somalia — and a large surge tied to the civil war in ...
Who is bringing Somalis to the United States in 2025 is not a single actor but a mix of U.S. government refugee and immigration programs, past resettlement trends and internal migration; Temporary Pro...
U.S. citizens are not under a single, across‑the‑board legal duty to carry identification at all times; instead federal law requires presenting ID in specific circumstances such as boarding domestic a...
ICE can — and does — try to verify a person’s immigration status during encounters, and guidance and ICE policy discuss assessing potential U.S. citizenship and seeking “probative evidence” such as pa...
Ice does not always need a judicial warrant to arrest someone for immigration violations; federal immigration officers have statutory authority to arrest removable noncitizens without a judge-signed w...
Ilhan Omar’s path to U.S. citizenship is stated in the provided materials as a naturalization completed in , after her family fled the Somali civil war and spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp before ...
There are about 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens residing in the United States as of 2024, which Congress Research Service reports as “approximately 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens” and that ...
President Trump’s second term (begun January 20, 2025) has been marked by a high volume of executive actions — Ballotpedia counts 218 executive orders, 55 memoranda and 112 proclamations as of Dec. 10...
Official, primary proof of U.S. citizenship is straightforward on paper: a full, valid U.S. birth certificate, an undamaged U.S. passport, a Certificate of Naturalization, or a Certificate of Citizens...