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Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Yahoo
Photo Purporting to Show ICE Detaining a Trump Supporter Is Altered
A viral photo shows a man in a 'Latinos for Trump' T-shirt being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. 'DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN?' asks one version of the post with more than 78,000 likes on Instagram. 'How ironic,' says another. The photo is altered: The arrestee's T-shirt and the ICE patches on the officers' uniforms have been edited into the image. The original version of the photo was taken by ICE on June 19, 2018, in Salem, Ohio. It depicts officers of the agency's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit apprehending several undocumented workers during a raid at Fresh Mark, a meat processing company. In the photo, the arrestee's gray T-shirt has no writing on the back, and the officers' vests read 'POLICE HSI.' This differs from the now viral version, in which the arrestee's shirt reads 'LATINOS FOR TRUMP 2024' and the officers' vests read 'POLICE ICE'. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio, HSI agents detained 146 workers at the plant who were subject to arrest for immigration violations. Following the arrests, Fresh Mark agreed to pay a $3.7 million penalty in connection with identity theft and obstruction offenses by one of its hiring managers, who had used stolen information from U.S. citizens to falsely verify employment eligibility for undocumented immigrant workers. If you have a claim you would like to see us fact check, please send us an email at factcheck@ If you would like to suggest a correction to this piece or any other Dispatch article, please email corrections@
USA Today
30-01-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
Doctored image shows ICE arresting man wearing 'Latinos for Trump' T-shirt
The claim: Image shows ICE arresting man wearing 'Latinos for Trump' shirt A Jan. 28 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) appears to show three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escorting a man with bound wrists wearing a shirt that reads 'Latinos for Trump 2024" on it. 'Be careful what you wish for,' the post's caption reads. The post received more than 1,000 likes in a day. Similar versions also circulated widely on Instagram. More from the Fact-Check Team: How we pick and research claims | Email newsletter | Facebook page Our rating: Manipulated media The image, which was published in 2018, was digitally edited to add the slogan to the man's shirt and to change the acronym on the agents' vests. No slogan on man's shirt in original image from 2018 President Donald Trump marked the start of his second term by following through on the crackdown on immigration he promised during the campaign, with an increasing number of raids across the U.S. targeting those in the country illegally. ICE, which is publicizing its daily totals, has arrested more than 4,500 people since Jan. 23, USA TODAY reported. The man shown in the Instagram image, however, is not part of that tally. That image predates the current immigration actions by six years and was doctored to add the pro-Trump slogan to his shirt. Fact check: No, Biden, Harris didn't spend hurricane relief FEMA funds on immigrants The original image was published by Getty Images in June 2018 with a caption crediting it to an ICE photographer and indicating it shows Homeland Security Investigations agents arresting people at the Fresh Mark meat processing plant in Salem, Ohio. In the image, the back of the man's shirt is blank and the acronym shown on the agents' vests reads 'HSI' not 'ICE.' Other elements visible in both images, including the white pickup truck and the procession of other detainees in the background, are identical. According to a statement from ICE at the time, 146 employees were arrested following a yearlong HSI investigation into allegations the company hired immigrants in the country illegally, with some of them accused of using false identification. Fresh Mark was fined $3.7 million in December 2024 after it entered into a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors and its hiring manager pleaded guilty to charges of identity theft and making false statements on immigration forms. USA TODAY previously debunked false claims that ICE offered a $750 reward for reporting 'illegal immigrants' through a tip line and that an executive order from former President Joe Biden granted citizenship to 1 million immigrants in the country illegally. USA TODAY reached out to multiple Instagram users who shared the image. One of the users told USA TODAY he did not think it was authentic when he shared it. Snopes and AFP also debunked the claim. Our fact-check sources Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or e-newspaper here. USA TODAY is a verified signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network, which requires a demonstrated commitment to nonpartisanship, fairness and transparency. Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Doctored image shows ICE arresting man wearing 'Latinos for Trump' T-shirt
A Jan. 28 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) appears to show three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escorting a man with bound wrists wearing a shirt that reads 'Latinos for Trump 2024" on it. 'Be careful what you wish for,' the post's caption reads. The post received more than 1,000 likes in a day. Similar versions also circulated widely on Instagram. More from the Fact-Check Team: How we pick and research claims | Email newsletter | Facebook page The image, which was published in 2018, was digitally edited to add the slogan to the man's shirt and to change the acronym on the agents' vests. President Donald Trump marked the start of his second term by following through on the crackdown on immigration he promised during the campaign, with an increasing number of raids across the U.S. targeting those in the country illegally. ICE, which is publicizing its daily totals, has arrested more than 4,500 people since Jan. 23, USA TODAY reported. The man shown in the Instagram image, however, is not part of that tally. That image predates the current immigration actions by six years and was doctored to add the pro-Trump slogan to his shirt. Fact check: No, Biden, Harris didn't spend hurricane relief FEMA funds on immigrants The original image was published by Getty Images in June 2018 with a caption crediting it to an ICE photographer and indicating it shows Homeland Security Investigations agents arresting people at the Fresh Mark meat processing plant in Salem, Ohio. In the image, the back of the man's shirt is blank and the acronym shown on the agents' vests reads 'HSI' not 'ICE.' Other elements visible in both images, including the white pickup truck and the procession of other detainees in the background, are identical. According to a statement from ICE at the time, 146 employees were arrested following a yearlong HSI investigation into allegations the company hired immigrants in the country illegally, with some of them accused of using false identification. Fresh Mark was fined $3.7 million in December 2024 after it entered into a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors and its hiring manager pleaded guilty to charges of identity theft and making false statements on immigration forms. USA TODAY previously debunked false claims that ICE offered a $750 reward for reporting 'illegal immigrants' through a tip line and that an executive order from former President Joe Biden granted citizenship to 1 million immigrants in the country illegally. USA TODAY reached out to multiple Instagram users who shared the image. One of the users told USA TODAY he did not think it was authentic when he shared it. Snopes and AFP also debunked the claim. Getty Images, June 19, 2018, Special Agents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, June 19, 2018, ICE executes federal criminal search warrants at Fresh Mark, 146 arrested on immigration violations Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or e-newspaper here. USA TODAY is a verified signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network, which requires a demonstrated commitment to nonpartisanship, fairness and transparency. Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Image of ICE arresting man in pro-Trump shirt is altered | Fact check
