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If ICE stops you in public in 2025, authoritative immigrant‑rights groups and legal advisers say you have the right to remain silent and to refuse to show foreign or citizenship‑revealing documents; I...
Deaths in ICE custody have risen sharply in fiscal year (FY) 2025: reporting outlets and advocacy tallies put the count at roughly 20–23 deaths through late 2025, the highest annual total since the ea...
An authoritative, year-by-year tally of people “killed by ICE” beginning in 2005 cannot be produced from the set of documents provided because neither a single consolidated table of annual deaths sinc...
You have core constitutional protections during encounters with ICE: the right to remain silent, the right to refuse entry without a judicial (signed) warrant, and the right to an attorney or interpre...
Opposition to the Dignity Act of 2025 clusters into three main camps: immigrant-rights advocates who say the bill leaves out a meaningful path to citizenship and imposes fees, conservative hard‑liners...
ICE does not have a blanket, uniform practice of reading Miranda-style warnings to undocumented immigrants before questioning; federal immigration encounters and detentions are governed by a mix of ag...
Independent trackers — including , the and investigative media — consistently report more custody than the agency’s official tallies; researchers attribute the gap to differing definitions of “in cust...
under the s has been escalated from a rare, exceptional remedy into an explicit enforcement priority—with referrals and filings rising from historical averages but still small in absolute numbers comp...
2025 saw the most deaths in ICE custody since 2004, with reporting aggregators documenting 31–32 fatalities and ICE confirming numerous ongoing probes into those deaths . Public reporting shows a patc...
Visa holders and green‑card holders retain core constitutional protections—most notably the right to remain silent and the right to refuse entry into a home without a judicial warrant—but those protec...
ICE enforcement priorities shape who gets arrested by combining formal written priorities—focusing on national security, border security, and public safety—with wide frontline discretion and, in recen...
The core riders producing the House–Senate stalemate are inserted into the 2025 continuing resolution by House Republicans and contested by Senate negotiators, alongside disputes over that Republicans...
US immigration laws and recent legal rulings have materially narrowed protections and expanded enforcement powers affecting undocumented immigrants, producing tangible consequences ranging from increa...
Policymakers, advocates, and watchdogs have proposed a mix of legislative, oversight, and operational changes to reduce , ranging from federal statutes to state safeguards and increased transparency; ...
publicly confirmed that was the deadliest year for people in its custody in two decades, reporting roughly 31–32 deaths in that calendar year—far higher than recent years—and agency reporting practice...
The Dignity Act of 2025 has drawn opposition from distinct stakeholder clusters—immigration‑restriction think tanks and analysts who argue it is poorly designed or misleading, employer and compliance ...
The Biden administration shifted DHS enforcement from broad, categorical removal toward narrower, threat-focused priorities and greater use of prosecutorial discretion, formalized in January–September...
The Obama administration significantly expanded family detention beginning in mid‑2014, opening large family residential centers and increasing use of detention for recently arrived Central American m...
Congress has approved large, new appropriations that explicitly authorize bonuses, signing and retention incentives, and reimbursement programs for immigration enforcement personnel, and DHS has annou...
Homeless immigrants who encounter ICE face a patchwork of statutory protections, agency standards, and community resources: detention is governed by ICE’s National Detention Standards and statutory ma...