16 People 24331 Fact-checks 7946 Articles People (16) Metro Turning Point USA Friends of India Point Park Gun Free UT Gun Free UT Everytown for Gun Safety Ohio Gun Owners Georgia Gun Owners Gun Owners of America Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Coalition to Stop Gun Violence National Association for Gun Rights Mayors Against Illegal Guns Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence Education Fund Fact-checks (24331) Donald Trump stated on February 08, 2026 in an interview on NBC: Crime in Minneapolis “is down 25, 30% because we’ve removed thousands of criminals from the area.” By Amy Sherman• February 13, 2026 JD Vance stated on January 22, 2026 in a press conference: "Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws." By Amy Sherman• January 28, 2026 Ashley Moody stated on March 03, 2026 in a Senate hearing: The Biden administration "reversed" a policy of deporting people in the country illegally who have committed felonies. By Samantha Putterman• March 5, 2026 Stephen Miller stated on October 24, 2025 in an interview: “To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.” By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 29, 2025 TikTok posts stated on September 07, 2025 in a TikTok post: Video shows Chicago salt trucks were used “to slow traffic and block access points in response to an incoming ICE operation.” By Maria Briceño• September 8, 2025 Kristi Noem stated on October 30, 2025 in a press conference: “No American citizens have been arrested or detained” during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns. By Nick Karmia, Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 31, 2025 Robert Menendez stated on February 13, 2017 in a tweet: Recent immigration raids "are not business as usual. The raids are being done indiscriminately. They’re not focused simply on criminal aliens." By Miriam Valverde• February 17, 2017 Tricia McLaughlin stated on November 17, 2025 in an interview posted to X: “There’s about 1,400 criminal illegal aliens that, right now, are in North Carolina and Charlotte’s jails that they refuse to turn over to ICE law enforcement.” By Paul Specht• November 24, 2025 Jeff Sessions stated on March 07, 2018 in a speech in Sacramento: "California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for." By Chris Nichols• March 7, 2018 George Holding stated on September 27, 2018 in a TV ad: Orange County "released" a sex offender instead of turning him over to immigration authorities - "like a sanctuary city." By Paul Specht• October 18, 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 Nathan Deal stated on January 28, 2014 in an interview: "We have been confronted with an unexpected storm that has hit the metropolitan area." By Nancy Badertscher, Eric Stirgus• January 30, 2014 David Dewhurst stated on December 13, 2011 in a post on his campaign website: "Ballistic tests have confirmed that the death of at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent was caused by" weapons that were part of a federal arms trafficking operation. By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• January 9, 2012 Joe Biden stated on September 12, 2019 in a tweet: "The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them." By Miriam Valverde• September 18, 2019 Hans von Spakovsky stated on July 09, 2015 in an article on the Heritage Foundation website: "134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years." By Jon Greenberg• July 16, 2015 X posts stated on June 11, 2024 in in X posts: Hunter Biden’s trial and conviction were contrived to divert attention from Biden family crimes. By Jeff Cercone• June 14, 2024 Tucker Carlson stated on June 10, 2022 in in a TV segment: “Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one.” By Samantha Putterman• June 13, 2022 Ted Cruz stated on November 06, 2017 in an interview with Shannon Bream of Fox News: "In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They [The Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them." By W. Gardner Selby• November 10, 2017 TikTok posts stated on September 18, 2024 in a TikTok video: “Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination” of Donald Trump. By Jeff Cercone• September 20, 2024 Greg Abbott stated on May 07, 2017 in a statement before signing Senate Bill 4 into law over a Facebook Live: Says Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes." By W. Gardner Selby• May 18, 2017 Articles (7946) Recording immigration agents in public is a constitutional right. Here’s what to know By Maria Ramirez Uribe• February 4, 2026 In Context: What did Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey say about police fighting ICE? By Maria Briceño• January 16, 2026 Separating fact from fiction on California’s Sanctuary State law By Chris Nichols• August 1, 2018 Does ICE Have Unlimited Authority To Make Courthouse Arrests? By Chris Nichols• September 4, 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 Fact-checking claims about Border Patrol’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina By Will Doran, Paul Specht• November 24, 2025 Fact-check: Trump officials’ statements about Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 26, 2026 Ask PolitiFact: What evidence does the government need to deport green card, visa holders? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 26, 2025 Fact-checking Trump’s rally with Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, but not Ron DeSantis By Yacob Reyes, Amy Sherman• November 7, 2022 Why Wesley Snipes and Kodak Black went to prison, but Hunter Biden likely won’t By Jeff Cercone, Sevana Wenn• June 23, 2023 Did Gavin Newsom 'separate families and deport children' in San Francisco? By Chris Nichols• July 12, 2018 Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Fact-checking his statements on nuclear weapons, Mamdani, ICE By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• November 3, 2025 Claire McCaskill, Josh Hawley argue over immigration, taxes in final Senate debate By PolitiFact Staff • October 25, 2018 President Donald Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS secretary. A look back at her falsehoods By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 5, 2026 Immigration after one year under Trump: Where do mass deportation efforts stand? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 20, 2026 Mailbag: 'I rate PolitiFact’s conclusions Mostly False' By Louis Jacobson• September 3, 2013 Fact-check: What Markwayne Mullin said about Rand Paul, Alex Pretti at DHS confirmation hearing By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 18, 2026 NY comptroller Brad Lander demanded a ‘judicial warrant’ in courthouse. Do ICE agents need that? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• June 18, 2025 Year of the Lies: ‘Worst of the worst’? ICE deports brothers after years of check-ins, good conduct By Maria Ramirez Uribe• December 18, 2025 Why are ICE agents paid during the partial government shutdown but TSA agents aren't? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 23, 2026
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Donald Trump stated on February 08, 2026 in an interview on NBC: Crime in Minneapolis “is down 25, 30% because we’ve removed thousands of criminals from the area.” By Amy Sherman• February 13, 2026 JD Vance stated on January 22, 2026 in a press conference: "Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws." By Amy Sherman• January 28, 2026 Ashley Moody stated on March 03, 2026 in a Senate hearing: The Biden administration "reversed" a policy of deporting people in the country illegally who have committed felonies. By Samantha Putterman• March 5, 2026 Stephen Miller stated on October 24, 2025 in an interview: “To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.” By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 29, 2025 TikTok posts stated on September 07, 2025 in a TikTok post: Video shows Chicago salt trucks were used “to slow traffic and block access points in response to an incoming ICE operation.” By Maria Briceño• September 8, 2025 Kristi Noem stated on October 30, 2025 in a press conference: “No American citizens have been arrested or detained” during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns. By Nick Karmia, Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 31, 2025 Robert Menendez stated on February 13, 2017 in a tweet: Recent immigration raids "are not business as usual. The raids are being done indiscriminately. They’re not focused simply on criminal aliens." By Miriam Valverde• February 17, 2017 Tricia McLaughlin stated on November 17, 2025 in an interview posted to X: “There’s about 1,400 criminal illegal aliens that, right now, are in North Carolina and Charlotte’s jails that they refuse to turn over to ICE law enforcement.” By Paul Specht• November 24, 2025 Jeff Sessions stated on March 07, 2018 in a speech in Sacramento: "California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for." By Chris Nichols• March 7, 2018 George Holding stated on September 27, 2018 in a TV ad: Orange County "released" a sex offender instead of turning him over to immigration authorities - "like a sanctuary city." By Paul Specht• October 18, 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 Nathan Deal stated on January 28, 2014 in an interview: "We have been confronted with an unexpected storm that has hit the metropolitan area." By Nancy Badertscher, Eric Stirgus• January 30, 2014 David Dewhurst stated on December 13, 2011 in a post on his campaign website: "Ballistic tests have confirmed that the death of at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent was caused by" weapons that were part of a federal arms trafficking operation. By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• January 9, 2012 Joe Biden stated on September 12, 2019 in a tweet: "The Obama-Biden Administration did not conduct workplace raids—in fact, it ended them." By Miriam Valverde• September 18, 2019 Hans von Spakovsky stated on July 09, 2015 in an article on the Heritage Foundation website: "134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years." By Jon Greenberg• July 16, 2015 X posts stated on June 11, 2024 in in X posts: Hunter Biden’s trial and conviction were contrived to divert attention from Biden family crimes. By Jeff Cercone• June 14, 2024 Tucker Carlson stated on June 10, 2022 in in a TV segment: “Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one.” By Samantha Putterman• June 13, 2022 Ted Cruz stated on November 06, 2017 in an interview with Shannon Bream of Fox News: "In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They [The Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them." By W. Gardner Selby• November 10, 2017 TikTok posts stated on September 18, 2024 in a TikTok video: “Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination” of Donald Trump. By Jeff Cercone• September 20, 2024 Greg Abbott stated on May 07, 2017 in a statement before signing Senate Bill 4 into law over a Facebook Live: Says Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes." By W. Gardner Selby• May 18, 2017
Recording immigration agents in public is a constitutional right. Here’s what to know By Maria Ramirez Uribe• February 4, 2026 In Context: What did Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey say about police fighting ICE? By Maria Briceño• January 16, 2026 Separating fact from fiction on California’s Sanctuary State law By Chris Nichols• August 1, 2018 Does ICE Have Unlimited Authority To Make Courthouse Arrests? By Chris Nichols• September 4, 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 Fact-checking claims about Border Patrol’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina By Will Doran, Paul Specht• November 24, 2025 Fact-check: Trump officials’ statements about Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 26, 2026 Ask PolitiFact: What evidence does the government need to deport green card, visa holders? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 26, 2025 Fact-checking Trump’s rally with Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, but not Ron DeSantis By Yacob Reyes, Amy Sherman• November 7, 2022 Why Wesley Snipes and Kodak Black went to prison, but Hunter Biden likely won’t By Jeff Cercone, Sevana Wenn• June 23, 2023 Did Gavin Newsom 'separate families and deport children' in San Francisco? By Chris Nichols• July 12, 2018 Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Fact-checking his statements on nuclear weapons, Mamdani, ICE By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• November 3, 2025 Claire McCaskill, Josh Hawley argue over immigration, taxes in final Senate debate By PolitiFact Staff • October 25, 2018 President Donald Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS secretary. A look back at her falsehoods By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 5, 2026 Immigration after one year under Trump: Where do mass deportation efforts stand? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 20, 2026 Mailbag: 'I rate PolitiFact’s conclusions Mostly False' By Louis Jacobson• September 3, 2013 Fact-check: What Markwayne Mullin said about Rand Paul, Alex Pretti at DHS confirmation hearing By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 18, 2026 NY comptroller Brad Lander demanded a ‘judicial warrant’ in courthouse. Do ICE agents need that? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• June 18, 2025 Year of the Lies: ‘Worst of the worst’? ICE deports brothers after years of check-ins, good conduct By Maria Ramirez Uribe• December 18, 2025 Why are ICE agents paid during the partial government shutdown but TSA agents aren't? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 23, 2026
