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Search results for "Tom Homan is border czar conducting ICE arrests"

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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
Threads posts stated on November 20, 2024 in a Threads post:
“Texas just gifted Trump 355,000 acres for deportation camps.”
By Loreben Tuquero• November 27, 2024
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
Threads posts stated on November 11, 2024 in a Threads post:
Video shows Marco Rubio “admitting the Trump Presidency will lean heavily into the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plans.”
By Jeff Cercone• November 12, 2024
Viral image stated on January 27, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Image shows President Donald Trump’s response “to Selena Gomez’ meltdown.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 28, 2025
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
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
Ron Johnson stated on February 04, 2022 in News release:
Federal border officials are allowing undocumented immigrants who are “known criminals who possess an arrest warrant to fly on U.S. aircraft (which) threatens our homeland security.”
By Laura Schulte• March 4, 2022
Tom McClintock stated on January 29, 2019 in a speech:
"In 2017, illegal aliens murdered 1,800 Americans."
By Chris Nichols• February 20, 2019
Wolf Blitzer stated on June 19, 2018 in in an interview:
"Most (immigrants) do show up in court."
By John Kruzel• June 26, 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
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
Donald Trump stated on August 27, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Dan McCready "believes in open borders and sanctuary cities."
By Paul Specht• August 30, 2019
Citizens for Sanity stated on October 05, 2022 in an ad:
Suggests that an immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a child entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration.
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 21, 2022
Donald Trump stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”
By Amy Sherman• July 29, 2024
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
Donald Trump stated on April 18, 2017 in a tweet:
"The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!"
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde• April 18, 2017
Newsflash stated on June 13, 2018 in a blog post:
"Trump’s DHS secretary confirms they are preparing to arrest sanctuary city leaders."
By Miriam Valverde• June 13, 2018
Rick Perry stated on June 17, 2014 in an interview on Fox & Friends:
Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations."
By W. Gardner Selby• June 22, 2014

Articles (2520)

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

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• November 13, 2024

In Context: Tom Homan’s comments that ‘families can be deported together’

By Caleb McCullough• November 14, 2024

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

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 23, 2026

Trump leaders say Minnesota officials withhold detained immigrants from ICE. Is that true?

By Amy Sherman• January 30, 2026

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

¿Quién es Tom Homan, "zar de la frontera" de Donald Trump?

By Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus, Maria Ramirez Uribe• November 14, 2024

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

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 5, 2026

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

By Miriam Valverde• December 19, 2017

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

By Miriam Valverde• March 15, 2018

Trump officials say ICE has higher detention standards than prisons, jails. Is that true?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 16, 2025

Did Trump find 75,000 to 80,000 missing children? Here’s why experts say that claim is misleading.

By Jeff Cercone• January 28, 2025

Did Donald Trump make these 27 campaign promises? Fact-checking this viral list

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• October 26, 2023

President Donald Trump's deportation of 'bad dudes'

By Miriam Valverde• March 3, 2017

Año de las Mentiras: ¿Deportan a ‘los peores de los peores’? Datos y testimonios dicen los contrario

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• December 18, 2025

How spin and falsehoods propelled Trump's immigration crackdown in his first 100 days

By Maria Briceño, Maria Ramirez Uribe• April 28, 2025

Donald Trump at CPAC gives misleading impression about immigration, MS-13

By Louis Jacobson• February 26, 2018

¿Cómo se comparan los estándares de detención de ICE con los de las cárceles y prisiones?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 17, 2025

Has a Venezuelan gang member been arrested in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin?

By Hope Karnopp• September 27, 2024

Ask PolitiFact: What evidence does the government need to deport green card, visa holders?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 26, 2025

Live fact-checking President Donald Trump's immigration address

By Jon Greenberg, Amy Sherman, Manuela Tobias, Miriam Valverde• January 9, 2019