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Fact Check: Doctored photo shows ICE agents arresting man wearing 'Latinos for Trump' T-shirt
Claim:
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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In June 2025, online users claimed a picture showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arresting a man wearing a "Latinos for Trump 2024" T-shirt.
On June 1, an X user posted (archived) the photo with a caption mocking the man's alleged vote of Trump, whose immigration policies supposedly led to his arrest. The user wrote, "Well that did not go well huh?" The post received over 500,000 views.
(Image courtesy of @JamesTate121/X)
Following that post, other users shared the same picture on Bluesky (archived), Facebook, iFunny (archived), Mastodon (archived), Threads and X (archived).
However, an unknown user doctored the photo 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."
The original picture confirmed no visible writing or logos appeared on the back of the detained man's T-shirt.
ICE published the original photo (Image courtesy of Getty Images)
As The Associated Press 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.
For further reading, Snopes compiled a collection of 20 fact checks involving U.S. immigration authorities.
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,
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,
Chappell, Bill. "Homeland Security Secretary Orders ICE to Stop Mass Raids on Immigrants' Workplaces." Connecticut Public, 12 Oct. 2021,
Santana, Rebecca. "Immigration Officers Are Operating with a New Sense of Mission. Now, 'Nobody Gets a Free Pass.'" The Associated Press, 28 Jan. 2025,
"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,
Younge, Gary. "'They Want to Take Me Away': Immigrants under Attack as Trump Tries to Rally Republican Base." The Guardian, 23 Oct. 2018,
