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ICE agents do not have a general statutory power to make traffic stops for routine vehicle or moving violations; they may stop or detain people only when they have the requisite federal grounds—such a...
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...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Trump administration has publicly claimed that roughly 1.6 million people "self‑deported" (part of a broader figure of 2 million people who have lef...
Available reporting shows wide disagreement about how many people the Trump administration has deported since he returned to office in January 2025: the Department of Homeland Security and White House...
Reporting compiled by national outlets and advocacy groups shows a sharp and well-documented rise in deaths tied to U.S. immigration enforcement after the Trump administration’s intensified crackdown:...
The short, evidence-backed answer is: yes—independent government review and multiple documented cases indicate that U.S. citizens have been deported or removed by U.S. immigration authorities, though ...
Available reporting and government reviews show that ICE has in multiple past instances detained and—according to a 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding—deported U.S. citizens (GAO coun...
The central, verifiable claim across recent analyses is that Congress approved an unprecedented package in mid‑2025 directing roughly toward immigration enforcement and detention, with major line item...
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...
The best-supported accounting from reporting and advocacy groups places U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spending for calendar/fiscal 2025 at roughly $28.7 billion — with alternate talli...
Available reporting and public-data reviews show no evidence that large numbers of unauthorized immigrants voted in the 2024 U.S. general election; documented or prosecuted cases are counted in the do...
Multiple recent analyses converge on a clear finding: . National trend analysis shows that as the foreign-born share of the population rose from 6.2% in 1980 to 13.9% in 2022, the overall crime rate d...
The available reporting shows wide disagreement about how many people have been deported since President Trump returned to office: official Trump administration figures released by DHS/White House aff...
Official counts and reputable summaries show that during Barack Obama’s presidency (fiscal years 2009–2016) there were more than 3 million formal removals (often reported as “deportations”), and when ...
Data compiled by multiple outlets and DHS-era reporting shows that , with commonly cited totals near 3 million removals for Obama versus about 1.2 million for Trump’s first term; several 2025 retrospe...
There is no clear, verifiable evidence in the supplied reporting that ICE completed the deportation of a person proven to be a U.S. citizen in 2026; the record instead shows multiple high‑profile dete...
Most illegal drugs enter the United States through organized smuggling networks that exploit ports of entry, maritime routes, air and land corridors, and the mail; law enforcement reports and think‑ta...
Reporting and public records show multiple instances in 2025 where U.S. government removal operations produced cases that courts and advocates have called “wrongful deportations,” including at least f...
Government watchdogs and multiple reporting find that ICE has, at times, arrested, detained and even deported people later determined to be U.S. citizens — including naturalized citizens — with a Gove...