Fact Check: Photo of ICE Agents Arresting Man Wearing 'Latinos for Trump' T-Shirt Is Fake
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A photo authentically shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arresting a man wearing a "Latinos for Trump 2024" T-shirt.
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A rumor circulating online in January 2025 claimed a photo showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arresting a man whose shirt displayed a logo reading, "Latinos for Trump 2024." Users shared the rumor in the first several days of President Donald Trump's second term in office, as federal agents carried out the new administration's mass deportation plans.
One X user's post (archived) from Jan. 27 displaying the image received over 1 million views. We located other shares of the photo from users on Instagram, Threads and X. Another X user captioned (archived) the picture sarcastically to mock the man in the picture, purportedly for voting Trump back into the White House.
However, the picture had been doctored by an unknown user with the "Latinos for Trump 2024" logo. The same user altered the agents' uniforms to read "ICE," when the original picture showed "HSI" for Homeland Security Investigations. ICE and HSI both operate under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security.
The Alamy and Getty Images websites both hosted the original, unedited photo for licensing. The genuine caption read, "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested alleged immigration violators at Fresh Mark [in] Salem, [Ohio, on] June 19, 2018."
There was no writing on the detained man's T-shirt.
ICE published the original photo. (Image courtesy of Getty Images)
As The Associated Press has reported based on its own survey of over 120,000 voters, Trump gained a larger share of both Black and Latino voters in 2024 than in the 2020 election, most notably among men under age 45.
Regarding the new Trump administration's progress in its plans for mass deportations, on Jan. 28, The AP reported ICE agents had crossed over a threshold of 1,000 daily arrests of immigrants residing in the U.S. illegally, after averaging only around 300 a day just months before during President Joe Biden's administration. "If sustained, those numbers would mark the highest daily average since ICE began keeping records," the AP said.
For further reading, we previously reported the facts about a rumor shared by Fox News TV host Harris Faulkner, who misleadingly claimed Tom Homan, Trump's "border czar," located 75,000 to 80,000 "missing" migrant children out of a purported total of over 300,000.
Brown, Matt, et al. "Young Black and Latino Men Say They Chose Trump Because of the Economy and Jobs. Here's How and Why." The Associated Press, 10 Nov. 2024, https://apnews.com/article/young-black-latino-men-trump-economy-jobs-9184ca85b1651f06fd555ab2df7982b5.
Catalini, Mike, and Rebecca Santana. "Just Days into the New Trump Administration, Worries Spike amid a Show of Force on Immigration." The Associated Press, 24 Jan. 2025, https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-border-migrants-immigration-enforcement-a24389b7fd7875ef98b4ab45c14e8418.
Chappell, Bill. "Homeland Security Secretary Orders ICE to Stop Mass Raids on Immigrants' Workplaces." Connecticut Public, 12 Oct. 2021, https://www.ctpublic.org/2021-10-12/homeland-security-secretary-orders-ice-to-stop-mass-raids-on-immigrants-workplaces.
Santana, Rebecca. "Immigration Officers Are Operating with a New Sense of Mission. Now, 'Nobody Gets a Free Pass.'" The Associated Press, 28 Jan. 2025, https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-border-security-enforcement-ice-cb40a6a7e2d94582aa0774be47a8ab36.
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agents Arrested Alleged Immigration Violators at Fresh Mark [in] Salem, [Ohio, on] June 19, 2018." Getty Images, ICE, 19 June 2018, https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/immigration-and-customs-enforcements-homeland-security-news-photo/987107736.
Younge, Gary. "'They Want to Take Me Away': Immigrants under Attack as Trump Tries to Rally Republican Base." The Guardian, 23 Oct. 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/trump-immigrants-wisconsin-midterms-democrats-republicans.
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