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Subregion of the Americas
The count depends on what is being measured: in custody during the Obama administration according to a FOIA-based NGO report, while independent reporting has identified dozens of deportees who were mu...
The sanctuary movement in the United States traces back to the 1980s when faith communities and a small set of municipalities began shielding Central American refugees and asserting city-level limits ...
The core claim — that a specific percentage of undocumented immigrants in the United States are white — cannot be confirmed from the sources supplied: none of the referenced pieces provides a direct, ...
Photographs from 2014 show children behind chain‑link fencing at U.S. border processing sites during the , and officials at the time described chain‑link partitions or fenced enclosures used to hold m...
Traffickers move cocaine and other drugs from Venezuela via a mix of maritime, island-hub, and overland networks that then link into Caribbean and Pacific corridors toward the United States and Europe...
The allegation that the CIA “brought drugs and guns to Black communities” condenses a complex historical dispute: investigative reporting and declassified documents show , but multiple official inquir...
President Obama’s administrations oversaw the largest tally of formal removals in recent history, with reporting indicating , a figure that, by raw counts, exceeds recorded removals under Presidents C...
Venezuela functions as a significant transit and facilitation hub for international cocaine trafficking, exploited by transnational criminal organizations and allegedly aided by corrupt state actors, ...
Illicit drugs reaching U.S. consumers come largely from Latin America, with cocaine originating primarily in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia and synthetic opioids—most notably fentanyl—linked to production...
The preponderance of reporting across the supplied sources indicates that the . Recent investigative reporting and official accounts also document a parallel into Central America (notably Belize), and...
Available reporting does not mention any payment or donation from Donald Trump to “venessaila” (term unclear) and does not report Trump giving money to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro; instead, U.S. ...
Drug traffickers move cocaine and other narcotics from South America toward Central America, Mexico, Europe and the U.S. using a mix of small fast “go‑fast” boats, disguised fishing and merchant vesse...
Available reporting does not give a single, authoritative percentage for “what share of cocaine seized in the US is traced to Venezuela in 2024–2025.” Major U.S. and international reports cited in the...
The core claim across reporting is that elements of the Venezuelan state—particularly military officers—have enabled and in some cases directed large-scale cocaine trafficking, creating a de facto par...
No credible source in the provided reporting documents an event described as an “ against illegals” in which a specific number of people were shot; reporting instead documents a pattern of high-volume...
Available sources show sizable variation in estimates of the US unauthorized/undocumented population and emphasize changing origins and diversity rather than a single “racial breakdown.” Pew, MPI, Mig...
The Obama administration presided over historically high numbers of removals and instituted expedited, administrative pathways that critics say prioritized speed over individualized hearings—practices...
The most consistently reported drug moved by vessels linked to Venezuela is , often in large maritime shipments; marijuana is also documented historically, while claims that Venezuelan boats routinely...
Venezuela functions mainly as a transit hub — not a primary producer — for cocaine bound for both Europe and the United States, with traffickers using aerial, maritime and island-hopping Caribbean cor...
reopened and expanded family detention facilities in in 2014 chiefly as an operational response to a sudden surge of asylum-seeking families from that overwhelmed border processing and shelter capacit...