A search for ICE operations or ICE raids on Google gives back a staggering amount of returns.

The results are most striking when you search for a specific state.

Click through and the story is from 2019.

The New York City Fugitive Operations Team, joined by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, conducted targeted enforcement operations on January 28, 2025, resulting in the arrest of an illegal Dominican national.

The New York City Fugitive Operations Team, joined by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, conducted targeted enforcement operations on January 28, 2025, resulting in the arrest of an illegal Dominican national.© ICE photo.

Click through andits from 2011.

Sometime on that date, each story got a red-tinged banner at the top indicating it had been archived.

This information is archived and not reflective of current practice.

File photo of Google HQ

Thats all well and good, websites mark old stories all the time to indicate that theyre old.

Attached to the new banner is also a new bit of HTML on each old release.

At first blush, it looks like ICE is juicing public perception by updating old stories with new HTML.

President Donald Trump talks to reporters at the White House on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC.

The truth is probably stupider.

Also, this happened to every single ICE press release, not just those about arrests.

Stories about ICE-relatedCOVID-19 protections,I-9 policies, andresponsesto old Washington Post stories are mixed in.

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I went back through the HTML of old press releases from other government websites, those that still exist.

Old releases from the Department of Defense havent been updated at all.

Department of Agriculture press releases, like those for the Pentagon, havent been altered in any way.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, April 10, 2025.

Asite specific searchof www.ice.gov for Updated: 01/24/2025 returns more than 300 results.

In some cases, these results are buried deep beneath the churn of local news.

In other cases, theyre thefirst result at the top of the page.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.

ICE, and Googles systems, have made it hard to do that.

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