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Sovereign state in Central America
Current estimates of ’s undocumented (unauthorized) population diverge sharply because sources use different definitions, timeframes and methods; the ’s 2023 estimate places the state’s unauthorized p...
Claims that foreign governments “emptied out” prisons and shipped inmates into the United States are not supported by independent reporting or public evidence as a broad, systematic practice; fact‑che...
Claims that “President Joe Biden shipped in immigrants” refer to a mix of official parole programs that allowed people to fly directly to U.S. airports under eligibility rules and partisan accusations...
As of 2025, five states continue to operate under that their governments describe with communist or socialist terminology: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. Other countries contain constitu...
Official and investigative reporting indicates that 2025 was the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in roughly two decades, with mainstream outlets and...
Historical claims that the CIA was involved with drug cartels in Latin America are supported in part by documented instances of U.S. agencies’ contacts with groups that trafficked drugs, but comprehen...
Current lists of “socialist” or “communist” countries mix constitutional language, ruling-party ideology, and economic practice, producing inconsistent inventories. The primary claims in provided anal...
Democratic socialism is criticized on several fronts: opponents warn it can stifle economic incentives and efficiency, risk expanding state control or fiscal burdens, and faces questions about whether...
Multiple official and quasi-official actors—including at least a handful of national governments, groups of states intervening in litigation, and United Nations fact-finding bodies—have described or l...
The available materials do not provide a single, direct estimate of , but they offer two anchoring figures that produce a plausible range: a January 2025 estimate of total undocumented immigrants, and...
San Salvador (and El Salvador broadly) has seen a dramatic fall in homicides since 2015 — official figures and analysts place national homicide rates at about 1.9 per 100,000 in 2024 and even lower by...
has issued a mix of specific and vague prophecies—ranging from claims that “the real is dead” and “drinks children’s blood” to predictions of financial collapse at and that would murder the Queen—and ...
created several nationality-specific humanitarian parole programs (notably for , , , — “CHNV”), as well as large-scale parole pathways for and and operational changes that expanded port-of-entry parol...
Reporting and declassified documents show a web of contacts between Contra-linked figures and known drug traffickers in the 1980s, and journalist Gary Webb’s 1996 “Dark Alliance” series argued those l...
and shifts in enforcement were central levers in effort to reshape who entered and how, with parole creating limited legal channels for certain nationalities while an expanded or retained Title 42 ser...
Reporting beginning with Gary Webb’s 1996 San Jose Mercury News series alleges that CIA-linked Contra networks helped funnel cheap cocaine into South Central Los Angeles and Compton, accelerating the ...
Several sources compiled in the prompt identify a set of states in 2025 whose ruling parties describe themselves as *socialist* or *communist*, but the lists diverge because —from formal constitutiona...
has — since returning to in January 2025 — actively moved to (TPS) designations for multiple countries, undoing many extensions and placing hundreds of thousands, and by some counts more than a millio...
pursued a two-track approach: reversing many restrictions and expanding legal pathways while also deploying new enforcement tools and emergency authorities to curb record migration at the southern bor...
The available reporting does not produce a single, uncontested tally of how many *legal* immigrants were deported during President Trump’s term; sources present that conflate removals, self‑deportatio...