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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
When an individual in the United States must identify themselves to police is not a single, nationwide rule but a patchwork of constitutional principles, state “stop-and-identify” statutes, and federa...
There is no publicly verified evidence that Renée Nicole Good was paid to participate in the protests at which she was killed; major contemporary reporting describes claims that she was a paid agitato...
Paid protesters exist and commercial “crowd-for-hire” companies have operated in the U.S. and abroad; published pricing summaries and company executives report typical compensation in the low hundreds...
ICE officers can question, detain and sometimes arrest people during traffic or pedestrian encounters, but those actions are bounded by constitutional limits like probable cause, reasonable suspicion,...
President Barack Obama’s administration carried out roughly between 2 million and 3 million formal removals (what most reporting calls “deportations”) over his two terms, with commonly cited tallies c...
There is no single, verifiable figure in the documents provided that counts “how many” people President Obama’s administration deported “without due process of law”; official and advocacy sources offe...
Available sources show that deaths in ICE custody have risen sharply in 2025, with multiple tallies putting FY2025 deaths at between at least 21 and 27 people and media noting this is the deadliest ye...
Courts and advocates have challenged a wide range of ICE practices as unconstitutional — from warrantless detentions and courthouse arrests to detention conditions, mandatory no‑bond policies, biometr...
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...
The short answer: federal officials say the woman tried to vandalize a squad car while ICE agents were conducting a targeted operation, prompting officers to attempt to detain her; witnesses and multi...
President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on July 24, 2025, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” that explicitly encourages expanded use of civil commitment and instituti...
Since 2010 dozens of U.S. states considered or passed laws aimed at blocking “Sharia” or foreign/religious law; databases count between roughly 201 and 233 anti‑Sharia/anti‑Muslim bills introduced acr...
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 ...
Barack Obama’s administration developed a formal, internal framework (the Presidential Policy Guidance, PPG) that imposed specific constraints—such as geographic limits, a “near-certainty” standard to...