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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
USCIS forms that explicitly ask for marital history and dates include Form N-400 (Application for Naturalization), Form I-485 (Application to Adjust Status), and Form I-130 (Petition for Alien Relativ...
If ICE detains a lawful permanent resident (LPR) without a warrant, experts and legal groups say the immediate steps are: remain calm, assert the right to remain silent, show proof of status, request ...
Federal oversight of ICE combines internal ICE units (ERO, Office of Detention Oversight) with multiple DHS bodies (OIG, CRCL, OIDO) and congressional oversight; GAO and watchdogs say inspections and ...
Congressional committees that touch immigration oversight focus on immigration policy, enforcement and agency oversight rather than a single, uniform standard for handling individual lawmakers’ privat...
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...
The U.S. government can revoke citizenship of naturalized (foreign‑born) Americans through denaturalization, but only by suing in federal court (civilly) or by securing a criminal conviction for natur...
Circuit-court precedents — most centrally the Flores settlement and the Ninth Circuit’s 2016 Flores v. Lynch decision — constrained how long children could be held and shaped litigation that forced th...
Available sources in the provided set do not mention any USCIS announcement that “reclassified certain degrees as non‑professional.” The documents here focus on USCIS filing chart choices for November...