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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...
Yes: within the and its agents exercise law‑enforcement authorities—yet it is not the same as local police in mission, jurisdiction, oversight, or routine public functions, and those differences shape...
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...
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 ...
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...
The Constitution and federal employment rules set different rules: the U.S. Constitution prescribes citizenship or age/residency requirements for federal elected offices, while federal agencies genera...
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...
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...
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...
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...
became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006, with multiple biographical accounts and contemporary reporting citing July 28, 2006 as the date her citizenship was finalized . Public coverage and instituti...
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...
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 received large and growing resources during the Obama years, forming a substantial share of DHS immigration spending even as DHS as a whole also expanded; ICE’s funding and staffing increases supp...
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...
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 ...
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...
The analyses show disagreement about whether ICE is behaving differently now compared with the Obama years: official ICE reporting emphasizes continuing law‑enforcement and intelligence missions, whil...