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Available public sources do not provide a single, definitive count of how many European nationals were deported worldwide in 2025; Eurostat and EU agencies report quarterly and national return figures...
Fifteen men were reported to remain in U.S. custody at Guantánamo as of early January 2025, and public reporting divides their legal statuses into three groups: a small number formally cleared for tra...
Critics and watchdogs say the Biden administration both strengthened some civil liberties and took or defended actions others view as undermining them; complaints focus on surveillance law defense, pa...
Two distinct threads emerge from reporting: at least three Native-owned entities have held contracts with ICE or DHS-related detention work in recent years — the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation’s devel...
President Barack Obama's military intervention policies shifted U.S. practice away from large-scale, marquee ground wars toward a , prioritizing cost containment and legal constraints. Analysts disagr...
Barack Obama’s record on due process is mixed: he explicitly curtailed post-9/11 practices like CIA “enhanced interrogation” and promised to close Guantánamo and secret sites, steps proponents view as...
Detainees “going missing” from ICE custody most commonly reflects gaps in tracking, record-keeping and transparency—such as delayed or absent updates to ICE’s detainee locator, transfers (including in...
Estimates of the fiscal cost of President Trump’s mass-deportation agenda vary widely, but reporting and independent analyses consistently put the price tag in the tens to hundreds of billions of doll...
Official, mainstream documentary traces of Guantánamo activity since 2017 exist in publicly filed court records, Department of Defense and Congressional reporting, reputable press coverage and indepen...
The Supreme Court’s long run of decisions has carved a narrow rule: civilians may not be tried by military tribunals when ordinary civilian courts are open and functioning, yet the Court has allowed e...
Documented reporting shows multiple instances in 2025 where people tracked in or removed by U.S. immigration authorities later could not be located in the ICE Online Detainee Locator or were reported ...
Reporting across U.S. civil-rights groups, federal courts, and local news outlets documents widespread, repeated allegations that detainees — especially in immigration custody — have been denied promp...
The Periodic Review Board (PRB) is an interagency, administrative mechanism created under President Obama to determine whether certain Guantánamo detainees held without charge can be safely transferre...
A constellation of civil‑liberties lawsuits followed the post‑9/11 detentions: ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights suits to force disclosure and challenge mass immigrant roundups, habeas and due...
The intensity of public outrage over President Trump’s deportation campaign stems from a mix of scale and visibility, alarm‑raising rhetoric and novel legal tactics, and the fracturing of American con...
Legal and political pushback to President Obama’s use of force came through two channels: litigation that tested the administration’s detention and targeted‑killing authorities in federal courts, and ...
Pete Hegseth’s military service — National Guard/Army Guard deployments to Guantánamo, Iraq and Afghanistan and rise to major — has been a central credential in his media and political rise, used to j...
Yes — multiple recent reports and advocacy groups document practices in and connected to U.S. custody that rights monitors characterize as torture or torture-like abuse, including systematic beatings ...
Available reporting shows multiple official Pentagon reviews and inspector-general findings that fault Pete Hegseth for violating military rules (notably for sharing strike details on Signal) but the ...
Pete Hegseth’s official bios and multiple news and military sites state he earned two Bronze Star Medals, a Combat Infantryman Badge and other commendations during service in Guantánamo, Iraq and Afgh...