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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

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

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

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

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

X posts stated on May 24, 2022 in a tweet:

ICE is in Uvalde, Texas, “so undocumented parents have to consider arrest deportation before they go check to see if their kids are alive.”

By Nusaiba Mizan• May 25, 2022

Dawn Buckingham stated on February 08, 2017 in a campaign email blast:

"Hundreds of illegal immigrants subject to detainers were released in the last week since the new sanctuary policy was adopted by the Travis County Sheriff's Office."

By W. Gardner Selby• February 10, 2017

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

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

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

Facebook posts stated on February 25, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “will be at every polling station” on Nov. 3, 2020.

By Ciara O'Rourke• February 26, 2020

Mike Pence stated on July 19, 2018 in a speech:

In 2017, ICE "arrested more than 127,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or facing charges of breaking our nation's’ laws," and removed nearly 5,000 gang members.

By Miriam Valverde• July 25, 2018

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

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

Greg Abbott stated on February 06, 2017 in a tweet:

Says Travis County’s sheriff refuses to enforce 8 USC 1373.

By W. Gardner Selby• March 1, 2017

Roger Williams stated on August 22, 2019 in an interview:

"50% of the DUIs on Interstate 35 are from illegals. Ninety percent of the 50% have absolutely no identification."

By Madlin Mekelburg• October 4, 2019

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

Social Media stated on January 11, 2026 in social media posts:

A document shows Minnesota shooting victim Renee Good had a record of child abuse.

By Loreben Tuquero• January 12, 2026

Donald Trump stated on August 31, 2016 in a speech on immigration in Phoenix:

"Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct."

By Louis Jacobson• September 2, 2016

Bill McCollum stated on August 05, 2010 in televised candidates' debate:

"Police officers in this state have that right," to check the immigration status of people they arrest.

By Lukas Pleva• August 9, 2010

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