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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...
There is clear, repeated reporting that multiple federal prosecutors and senior Justice Department civil‑rights officials resigned in protest over how the DOJ handled the ICE shooting in Minneapolis ....
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...
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...
U.S. citizens are not legally required to carry proof of citizenship, and they retain constitutional protections — including the right to remain silent and protection from unreasonable seizure — when ...
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...
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 ...
ICE agents are federal law enforcement officers with a mission focused on immigration enforcement, not local policing; they work for the Department of Homeland Security, wear ICE/DHS/ERO insignia when...
President Obama’s administrations relied heavily on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out removals, producing more than over eight years with a fiscal-year peak in 2012 of roughl...
ICE’s statutory authority is focused on enforcing federal immigration law: the agency can question, briefly detain with reasonable suspicion, arrest noncitizens it believes are in the country unlawful...
Available reporting does not document that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "killed" detainees as a matter of policy; instead, multiple investigations and civil-society reports count people w...
U.S. law‑enforcement agencies have publicly accused Nicolás Maduro of long‑running involvement with large‑scale cocaine trafficking and narco‑terrorism, including indictments and a U.S. reward offer n...
Data and reporting show that Obama-era ICE removals were higher in raw counts across his two terms, with more than 3.1 million deportations logged during 2009–2016 . But multiple analyses and contempo...
The basic academy for many new ICE frontline officers was sharply shortened in 2025 to a roughly six- to eight-week program that ICE and oversight reporting describe as amounting to about 47 days of i...
As a general rule, modern policing doctrine and federal guidance advise officers not to stand in front of or shoot into moving vehicles and to move out of the vehicle’s path when feasible; shooting at...
A short viral clip captured a masked Minnesota demonstrator telling Fox host Laura Ingraham “I’m getting paid right now,” and conservative and local outlets amplified that line as proof of “paid prote...
Official U.S. government and independent analyses show millions of “encounters” at the U.S.–Mexico border during Joe Biden’s presidency, but that raw encounter counts are not the same as people “let i...
Yes — Thomas (Tom) Homan was appointed during the Obama administration as ICE’s executive associate director (sometimes described as assistant/assistant director) for Enforcement and Removal Operation...
Available reporting shows no single, definitive tally of how many U.S. citizens have been “detained or picked up by ICE” during the 2025 enforcement surge; different outlets and organizations track re...
ICE agents do receive formal training: recent reporting and fact checks in 2025 confirm multi-week programs at FLETC and ICE-run field training that cover law enforcement tradecraft, immigration law, ...