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Search results for "ICE agents have a list of 20 million people accessible on their iPhones via Palantir database"

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Fact-checks (25142)

Threads posts stated on July 28, 2025 in a Threads post:
“Home Depot signed a deal that pays them $250 million with DHS, allowing ICE agents to stake out their parking lots and arrest immigrants.”
By Maria Briceño• August 5, 2025
TikTok posts stated on March 05, 2025 in a TikTok post:
If you update your iPhone to iOS 18.3, you are going to have Starlink automatically installed in your phone.
By Maria Briceño• March 31, 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
Social Media stated on June 24, 2025 in an X post:
“The tow truck drivers in Los Angeles are quickly towing ICE vehicles improperly parked!”
By Gabrielle Lazor• June 26, 2025
Hal Turner Radio Show stated on May 20, 2021 in a blog post:
People with the COVID-19 vaccine are being "tracked in real time via 5G cellular, and all that data can be hacked into to track you."
By Andy Nguyen• May 28, 2021
Richard Durbin stated on October 22, 2019 in remarks at a committee hearing:
Says that in Illinois, "fewer than 20% of those actually deported have been charged with any serious crime."
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller• October 27, 2019
Ron DeSantis stated on September 02, 2018 in a radio interview:
Says Andrew Gillum "wants to abolish ICE and doesn't believe in doing any type of immigration enforcement."
By Miriam Valverde• September 11, 2018
Facebook posts stated on April 11, 2022 in a Facebook post:
"Joe Biden is giving smartphones away to illegal border crossers.”
By Andy Nguyen• April 14, 2022
Quentin Miller stated on February 26, 2019 in a speech:
Says an ICE detainer request "is not a valid warrant."
By Matthew Riley, Paul Specht• March 28, 2019
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
Tomi Lahren stated on July 25, 2022 in a tweet:
“Biden wants to give illegals ID cards so they can start collecting American benefits.”
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• August 5, 2022
Loretta Sanchez stated on January 20, 2016 in a Capital Public Radio interview:
"Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don’t have that (gun ownership) database."
By Chris Nichols• February 4, 2016
Tom Cotton stated on February 01, 2021 in a Fox & Friends interview:
"A lot of these migrants that are coming, we have no way to screen their backgrounds for either health or for security."
By Miriam Valverde• February 3, 2021
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
X posts stated on May 10, 2024 in an X post:
Sen. Katie Britt introduced a bill “to create a national registry of pregnant women.”
By Sara Swann• May 16, 2024
Kathy Hochul stated on February 22, 2024 in an interview:
In New York, there are no barriers to law enforcement to work with the federal government on immigration laws, and there are 100 crimes where migrants can be handed over.
By Jill Terreri Ramos• March 29, 2024
Donald Trump stated on January 21, 2026 in a speech in Davos:
Protesters against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota are conducting “fake protests done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. …They're professional troublemakers.”
By Maria Briceño, Amy Sherman• January 26, 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
Donald Trump stated on December 18, 2018 in in a tweet:
Says 19,000 text messages exchanged between former FBI officials that were "purposely and illegally deleted ... would have explained (the special counsel investigation) hoax."
By John Kruzel• December 19, 2018
Harris Faulkner stated on July 06, 2015 in a broadcast of "Outnumbered" on Fox News:
"President Obama in November of last year wiped away (a program) that allows for shared fingerprinting for those who are behind bars so you know who is here legally and illegally."  
By Jon Greenberg• July 8, 2015

Articles (8077)

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

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 20, 2026

Trump’s Freedom 250 concert on the National Mall: What happened? What’s next?

By Louis Jacobson• June 1, 2026

Does ICE Have Unlimited Authority To Make Courthouse Arrests?

By Chris Nichols• September 4, 2018

What has Donald Trump done toward his mass deportation promise?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 4, 2025

NY comptroller Brad Lander demanded a ‘judicial warrant’ in courthouse. Do ICE agents need that?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• June 18, 2025

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

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 23, 2026

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

By Will Doran, Paul Specht• November 24, 2025

Do 70% of immigrant detainees have criminal convictions or charges? Fact-checking Kristi Noem

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 23, 2026

Trump moves on promises on immigration, deportations in first month

By Miriam Valverde• February 24, 2017

Recording immigration agents in public is a constitutional right. Here’s what to know

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• February 4, 2026

What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE?

By Louis Jacobson• January 22, 2026

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

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s marathon press briefing at one-year mark of second term

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 20, 2026

What to know about B-1 visas that some detainees from the Hyundai plant used to enter the US

By Maria Briceño, Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 10, 2025

Test yourself with our new free game: PolitiTruth

By Aaron Sharockman• November 16, 2017

¿Estará ICE en la Copa Mundial 2026? Aquí lo que sabemos

By Maria Briceño• June 4, 2026

PolitiFact’s checklist for thorough fact-checking

By Angie Drobnic Holan• March 31, 2022

In Context: What did Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey say about police fighting ICE?

By Maria Briceño• January 16, 2026

US Rep. Steil labeled Dane County a ‘sanctuary city,’ but it’s complicated

By Ricardo Torres• March 5, 2025

Fact-checking Richard Corcoran and Andrew Gillum's fiery debate on sanctuary cities

By Romy Ellenbogen, Allison Graves, Jimena Tavel• February 14, 2018