Does a photo genuinely show a man in a "Latinos for Trump 2024" shirt being taken away by agents wearing "POLICE ICE" labels on their backs? No, that's not true: The photo is based on an original from 2018, and several elements in the picture have been added or edited. The logo on the man's shirt was not present in the original photo and the agents had "HSI" on their backs, not "ICE."
The altered photo was widely spread online, for example, in this post on Instagram (archived here) where it was published on January 28, 2025, with the altered image shown below:
(Source: Instagram screenshot taken on Wed Jan 29 11:50:00 2025 UTC)
The original photo has been online since at least June 20, 2018, when it appeared in an NPR article (archived here) titled "ICE Carries Out Its Largest Immigration Raid In Recent History, Arresting 146" and it was credited to "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." Areas where the original was changed are circled in red by Lead Stories:
(Source: screenshot of NPR article taken by Lead Stories on January 29, 2025, at 11:33:21 UTC with red highlights added by Lead Stories)
The NPR story described the picture as:
Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lead a man away from Fresh Mark in Salem, Ohio, on Tuesday. The mass arrests were the result of the second such large-scale raid this month.
The edited version of the photo added a "Latinos for Trump 2024" logo to the back of the shirt of the man and changed the label "HSI" on the back of the agents with "ICE."
