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Official incident/complaint or DHS data corroborates that death threats against ICE officers rose by ~8,000% and assaults rose by >1,300% relative to the baseline period DHS used.
The DHS press releases explicitly state those percentage increases (8,000% for death threats and >1,300% for assaults). However, independent reporting and public datasets have not produced a clear, independently verifiable methodology or raw counts to confirm DHS’s calculations (NPR and other reporters requested data and DHS did not provide methodology). Because the claim accurately describes what DHS said but DHS has not published underlying data or a transparent method for calculating the percentages, the statement is partly verifiable only as a reported DHS claim; the accuracy of the percentages themselves remains unclear pending release of source data and methodology. Verdict: Unclear — the percentages are DHS’s claim but lack independently available supporting data and methodology.