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’s role in protests is real but limited and contested: some self‑described antifa activists and affiliated anarchist groups have participated in or escalated confrontations with ICE and federal agents...
The most prominent prosecutions labeled or alleged to be “‑related” range from large batches of protest arrests in 2020 to a small number of later cases in which federal prosecutors explicitly tied de...
Transgender service members responded to the 2025 Pentagon directive and President Trump’s executive order by mounting multiple federal lawsuits (including Talbott, Shilling, and Ireland) that sought ...
Available reporting does not provide a single, definitive count of how many U.S. citizens have filed claims or received settlements after wrongful ICE detention since 2000; reporting instead documents...
The largest Somali communities in the United States are concentrated in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul Twin Cities area of Minnesota, with major secondary hubs in Columbus, Ohio, and the Seattle–Tacoma ar...
Somali Americans in Minneapolis concentrate in education/healthcare, retail, transportation/warehousing and manufacturing, with a strong history of entry-level work in meatpacking and a notable entrep...
Minnesota’s Twin Cities are the single largest concentration of Somali immigrants in the United States, followed by sizable communities in Columbus, Ohio; the Seattle–Tacoma region; parts of Maine (Le...
From 2018 through 2025, reporting and records show a pattern of internal ICE reviews, independent audits and repeated civil litigation tied to detainee deaths — with watchdog groups and Congress deman...
The available sources do not provide a verifiable count of how many times ICE used tear gas during raids in 2024; reporting centers on a February 1, 2023 incident at the Northwest ICE Processing Cente...
Federal courts have produced a mixed but evolving body of precedent on ICE detention authority and due process, balancing statutory text against liberty interests: the Supreme Court in Zadvydas establ...
Over the past five years there are multiple documented incidents in which federal immigration authorities and ICE-affiliated personnel used at or near ICE facilities and during enforcement actions and...
ICE reports and reporting from 2025 show the agency faces widespread criticism for detainee health outcomes, and its actions this year have been a mix of legal compliance efforts, contested facility r...