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The most widely cited tally for deaths in custody during the presidency is , a figure reported by a coalition report titled and repeated in media and advocacy accounts . That number has become a short...
Yes — immigration agents under ICE and related DHS components fired their weapons and were involved in shootings during the Obama years, but publicly available reporting does not provide a single, ver...
The best-supported count in the reporting provided is that while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during the , a figure reported by a coalition report based on documents and summar...
Available reporting does not document that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "killed" detainees as a matter of policy; instead, multiple investigations and civil-society reports count people w...
The short answer: multiple reputable reports and advocacy groups have reported that 56 people died while in custody during , but that number is not a single, uncontested official toll — it reflects a ...
The best available reporting in the provided sources counts while in custody during the , a figure cited in the /Detention Watch Network/National Immigrant Justice Center report "Fatal Neglect" (and s...
U.S. citizens are not legally required to carry proof of citizenship, and they retain constitutional protections — including the right to remain silent and protection from unreasonable seizure — when ...
The count depends on the metric: using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fiscal‑year data for formal removals (what many sources call “deportations”), the Obama administration oversaw more than 3 ...
Available reporting shows (long‑range acoustic devices) have been used by police, and other law‑enforcement elements at protests, and have drawn legal and civil‑liberties scrutiny, but there is no con...
A straight head‑to‑head on deaths shows more reported deaths under the administrations than under , but the comparison is clouded by rising detention populations, incomplete reporting and agency pract...
Yes — ICE and broader immigration-enforcement policies were the focus of sustained protest activity during President Barack Obama’s tenure; activists, immigrant-rights groups and sympathetic politicia...
The count depends on what is being measured: in custody during the Obama administration according to a FOIA-based NGO report, while independent reporting has identified dozens of deportees who were mu...
A coalition report published by the ACLU, Detention Watch Network and the National Immigrant Justice Center counted 56 people who died in ICE custody during the Obama administration, and highlighted t...
ICE agents are federal law enforcement officers with a mission focused on immigration enforcement, not local policing; they work for the Department of Homeland Security, wear ICE/DHS/ERO insignia when...
Yes — multiple government audits, legal clinics, news investigations and court filings show that U.S. citizens have been mistakenly arrested, detained and in documented cases removed from the country ...
in this month involved hundreds of arrests, heightened federal coordination, and at least one deadly confrontation that drew an criminal probe; reporting does not corroborate a separate, large-scale “...
Official and watchdog reporting indicates died while in custody over the four years of , with 12 deaths recorded in fiscal year 2024; reporting practices, lags, and differing tallies mean that exact a...
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...
ICE publishes individual detainee death reports and a death-reporting policy, but the sources provided do not contain a single, official year-by-year tally from 2000 through 2025; available reporting ...
Anti‑ICE protests are financed by a mixture of national advocacy coalitions, established civil‑liberties and immigrant‑rights organizations, local community groups and unions, and—according to conserv...