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We know that threats against ICE officers are up over 9000 percent. Actual attacks are up for 1400 percent.

Speaker
Tom Homan
Organization
White House
Statement date
30 August 2026
Location or event
CNN State of the Union

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The statement came during discussion of ICE enforcement and allegations concerning officers' treatment of deportees. Homan repeated the threat statistic later in the interview.

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The claim combines two statistics. An official congressional statement from ICE leadership supports an increase of more than 1,400% in assaults, though the underlying data and definitions were not provided. For threats, the closest official figure located was an increase of more than 8,000% in death threats—not the more than 9,000% claimed by Homan. The available evidence therefore supports the attacks figure but does not substantiate the threats figure as stated.

Keep in mind:
  • The available evidence consists largely of statements from DHS or ICE officials; an independently verified public dataset supporting the precise percentages was not located.
  • The comparison periods are not specified in Homan's CNN statement, and the official testimony refers specifically to fiscal year 2025.
  • The terms “threats,” “death threats,” “actual attacks,” and “assaults” may represent different categories, so the figures cannot be assumed to be directly interchangeable.

What we checked

Claims

  1. 01

    Threats against ICE officers are up over 9,000 percent.

    Tom Homan made this statement during a CNN interview on August 30, 2026. However, the closest official figure located was ICE leadership's February 10, 2026 testimony that death threats against ICE personnel increased by more than 8,000% in fiscal year 2025. No public raw counts, comparison period, or methodology were provided to substantiate the higher 9,000% figure.

    Unverifiable [2][1]
  2. 02

    Actual attacks against ICE officers are up 1,400 percent.

    The claim is broadly consistent with the February 10, 2026 testimony of ICE leadership, which said assaults on ICE officers had increased by more than 1,400%. The CNN interview did not specify the comparison period or clarify whether “actual attacks” used the same definition as the agency's “assaults.”

    Mostly True [2][1]

What the record shows

Key facts

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  • Contradicts the claim
  • Adds context

  • Homan stated on CNN on August 30, 2026, that threats against ICE officers were up over 9,000% and actual attacks were up 1,400%.

    [2]

  • ICE leadership testified on February 10, 2026, that death threats against ICE personnel increased by more than 8,000% in fiscal year 2025.

    [1]

  • The same testimony said assaults on ICE officers increased by more than 1,400%.

    [1]

  • The official testimony used the categories “death threats” and “assaults,” while Homan's CNN statement used the broader terms “threats” and “actual attacks.”

    [2][1]

  • The retrieved sources do not provide the underlying incident counts, baseline numbers, or detailed methodology used to calculate either percentage.

    [2][1]

Evidence trail

Sources

2 sources consulted by automated research
  1. 01
    homeland.house.gov

    homeland.house.gov · Accessed

  2. 02
    transcripts.cnn.com

    transcripts.cnn.com · Accessed

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