ProPublica Hits Back at DHS Branding Report on Americans Being Detained by ICE as ‘Fake News’

Alex Griffing Oct 17th, 2025, 2:08 pm

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ProPublica hit back at the Department of Homeland Security this week after the agency branded its recent report on ICE detaining American citizens as “fake news.”

On Thursday, the investigative outlet published a bombshell headline that read, “We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.” The in-depth report chronicled the detentions in an effort to create an official count and cites police documents, testimonials, and video footage.

DHS attacked the story on social media Thursday evening, accusing ProPublica of “wasting more ink with di

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