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Federal and local reporting show that a claim circulated by — that an /HSI agent’s finger was “bit off” during unrest in — exists and was amplified by several outlets, but major independent reporting ...
Barack Obama did present a 2015 Presidential Rank Award to Thomas D. Homan — commonly referred to in press as Tom Homan — when Homan, then ICE’s Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Remova...
During the Clinton years ICE’s predecessor systems and enforcement tools produced some of the highest deportation counts in modern history, and during the Obama administration ICE shifted toward “prio...
is generally lawful with a state permit, but the picture at protests is more complicated: federal and state actors can and have asserted limits, and Minnesota law includes provisions that allow author...
The Department of Homeland Security’s recruitment package for new Immigration and Customs Enforcement hires advertises “up to $50,000” in signing bonuses, and reporting from Fortune explicitly states ...
Photographs and contemporaneous reporting show Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem standing at a One World Trade Center podium bearing the words “ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS” during a Jan. 8, 2026 p...
Reporting is conflicted: federal authorities say “approached” agents with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and distributed a photo of a firearm, while multiple bystander videos and at least one independen...
Yes — multiple contemporaneous reports and official notices show that received a 2015 Presidential Rank Award while serving as ’s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, a...
Multiple media outlets report that a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has provided a dataset to the activist site “ICE List” that allegedly contains sensitive personal details for roughly...
The most defensible, widely reported figure for deaths in custody during the first year of ’s second term is — the highest total in more than two decades, according to multiple news organizations trac...
Federal officials have said a was recovered from at the scene; multiple outlets report the released a photo identifying a ‑style 9 mm pistol (reported by DHS and several news organizations) while eyew...
Independent video analysis of the encounter indicates that at least ten shots were fired in the , with those shots occurring in a rapid volley over roughly five seconds, according to ’ review of avail...
The best available reporting in the provided sources counts while in custody during the , a figure cited in the /Detention Watch Network/National Immigrant Justice Center report "Fatal Neglect" (and s...
Multiple bystander videos of the shooting that killed have circulated on social media and been authenticated or replayed by major news organizations, but none of the provided reporting supplies a sing...
By the most widely cited counts through 2025, ’s two terms oversaw more total (removals plus ) than ’s presidencies to date, though the gap narrows or reverses depending on which categories—formal rem...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Donald J. Trump was arrested today; the news items instead document arrests of other figures and policy moves by the Trump adminis...
Public reporting establishes that was a with a permit to carry, a fact repeated by local police and family members , while federal officials publicly asserted that he was found without identification ...
Contemporary reporting and compiled trackers show a involving federal immigration agents since January 2025, with multiple fatal incidents that have driven national protests and political debate; pres...
There is no publicly verified count of how many officers are members of the or other white nationalist organizations; reporting documents allegations, a large leaked roster, and intense political and ...
Federal prosecutors have charged scores of people in multiple Minnesota fraud cases that involve programs such as Feeding Our Future, Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), and autism services...