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Search results for "Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons will step down from the agency later this spring"

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Fact-checks (25054)

Mark Warner stated on January 11, 2026 in an interview:
“They are not getting the traditional five months training. … The training for the ICE agents now is 47 days.”
By Madison Czopek, Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 12, 2026
Mark Warner stated on January 11, 2026 in una entrevista:
“No están recibiendo el entrenamiento tradicional de cinco meses… .El entrenamiento para los agentes de ICE ahora es de 47 días”.
By Madison Czopek, Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 15, 2026
Ted Cruz stated on August 21, 2015 in answering a reporter in Iowa:
"In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers – people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally."
By W. Gardner Selby• August 28, 2015
David Dewhurst stated on April 08, 2013 in in an appearance on Mark Davis’ KSKY-AM radio show:
Says Texas "school systems" lose 45 days a year on testing.
By Sue Owen• April 17, 2013
Steve Adler stated on February 14, 2017 in an open letter to Austin residents:
"Local authorities in 43 states refused to honor more than 16,000 detainer requests from ICE from October 2013 to December 2015. Only in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Vermont and Wyoming did local officials honor all requests, and detainers are relatively rare in those states."
By W. Gardner Selby• February 23, 2017
Jon Favreau stated on July 08, 2025 in Pod Save America:
“ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”
By Amy Sherman• July 11, 2025
National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on August 10, 2022 in News release:
Says Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes “supports abolishing ICE.”
By Vanessa Swales• August 29, 2022
Thomas Ratliff stated on December 10, 2012 in an opinion column.:
Says Massachusetts has three state-mandated student tests and Finland just one.
By W. Gardner Selby• December 17, 2012
Rick Perry stated on December 10, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Iowa.:
Says the Obama administration catches and releases nonviolent illegal immigrants.
By W. Gardner Selby• December 16, 2011
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on June 27, 2018 in an interview with The Intercept:
"ICE is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night and that number has only been increasing since 2009."
By Lucia Geng• July 6, 2018
Donald Trump stated on February 28, 2021 in a CPAC speech:
Says Joe Biden “has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.”
By Miriam Valverde• March 1, 2021
Todd Staples stated on September 08, 2014 in oped commentary:
"To deprive" underprivileged children "of a meat-based protein during school lunch is most likely depriving them of their only source of protein for the day."
By Dylan Baddour• September 21, 2014
Lamar Smith stated on July 12, 2011 in a legislative proposal.:
On applying prosecutorial discretion to immigration cases.
By W. Gardner Selby• August 7, 2011
Donald Trump stated on August 31, 2016 in a speech in Arizona:
The Secure Communities Program and 287(g) immigration programs "were programs that worked" but were "recklessly gutted" by the Obama administration.
By Miriam Valverde• September 6, 2016
John Kasich stated on August 04, 2010 in a campaign speech:
"We didn’t have a development director for over seven months."
By Reginald Fields• August 17, 2010
Kurt Bauer stated on February 10, 2015 in a panel discussion:
Ninety-five percent of the money used for union-operated worker training centers comes from employers.
By James B. Nelson• February 27, 2015
Ted Lyon stated on July 31, 2012 in an opinion column in the Austin American-Statesman:
Says most Texas schools spend 45 out of 180 school days in mandated testing.
By Sue Owen• August 29, 2012
Leah Vukmir stated on July 05, 2018 in a news release:
Says Mark Pocan’s proposal to eliminate the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would "eliminate border enforcement."
By Tom Kertscher• July 13, 2018
Donald Trump stated on February 04, 2020 in his 2020 State of the Union address:
“In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed.”
By Bill McCarthy• February 5, 2020
Ashley Moody stated on March 09, 2021 in a Fox & Friends interview:
Says the Biden administration is canceling immigration detainers and “requiring our law enforcement leaders to release” serious criminal offenders.
By Miriam Valverde• March 12, 2021

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What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE?

By Louis Jacobson• January 22, 2026

The facts behind the detention of immigrants

By Stefanie Pousoulides, Miriam Valverde• July 8, 2019

Fact-checking claims about Border Patrol’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina

By Will Doran, Paul Specht• November 24, 2025

¿Cuáles son tus derechos legales en caso de un encuentro con ICE?

By Louis Jacobson• January 29, 2026

Top 5 most popular fact-checks for September 2014

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 1, 2014

In Context: Donald Trump's comments about immigrants, ‘animals’

By Miriam Valverde• May 17, 2018

Trump moves on promises on immigration, deportations in first month

By Miriam Valverde• February 24, 2017

Have deportations increased under Donald Trump? Here’s what the data shows

By Miriam Valverde• December 19, 2017

The FBI didn’t orchestrate Jan. 6, but poll shows the false belief has staying power

By Madison Czopek• January 5, 2024

Why are ICE agents paid during the partial government shutdown but TSA agents aren't?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 23, 2026

Why would Trump want to buy Greenland?

By Jon Greenberg• August 21, 2019

Has the US government found 145,000 ‘lost’ migrant children? Fact-checking Kristi Noem

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 5, 2026

Hurricanes and tropical storms lead to flood of misinformation

By Amy Sherman• August 28, 2019

An ICE spokesman resigned after Trump criticized the Oakland mayor. Here's why

By Miriam Valverde• March 15, 2018

Experts question Kristi Noem calling Renee Good a 'domestic terrorist.' Here's what it means

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• January 8, 2026

Separating fact from fiction on California’s Sanctuary State law

By Chris Nichols• August 1, 2018

Who is Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s ‘border czar’? And what has he said about mass deportations?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• November 13, 2024

How do standards measure up at immigration detention centers? A special report

By Miriam Valverde• September 6, 2017

'Abolish ICE' movement is growing. Is the agency's disbanding likely?

By Miriam Valverde• July 3, 2018

Immigration after one year under Trump: Where do mass deportation efforts stand?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 20, 2026