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Nonprofit organizations and coalitions provide hotlines, phone funds, pro bono and low‑cost legal representation, detention monitoring and post‑release services to people in ICE custody; examples incl...
The available reporting documents at least three denaturalization proceedings the Department of Justice initiated or announced in 2025 — the filings or outcomes in the cases of a Louisiana defendant k...
Nonprofit legal help for people detained by ICE exists but is fragmented: national groups like the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) operate a Detention Project with a dedicated phone line and ...
Legal permanent residents (LPRs, “green card” holders) can be detained by ICE and enter removal proceedings; they retain core detention rights including silence, access to counsel (though not a govern...
Changes to immigration policy under President Trump coincided with an aggressive enforcement shift that the administration framed as combating child trafficking — including directives to locate hundre...
The Obama administration detained immigrant families together at scale, expanding family detention as a deterrent while facing sustained criticism for ; advocates and legal groups documented medical, ...
Available reporting and datasets do not provide a clean, directly comparable time series for "missing detainees," but the evidence shows two durable patterns: ICE’s detained population grew to unprece...
Unlawful ICE stops or detentions can be challenged through a mix of administrative complaint routes, facility-level grievance procedures, civil litigation (including habeas petitions and class settlem...
Non‑citizens facing unlawful detention, expedited deportation, or police misconduct have multiple legal and administrative tools to challenge government action: assert procedural rights at the moment ...
Multiple Biden 2021 immigration actions led to formal rulemaking or notices and had rulemaking dockets, while many were executive orders, memoranda or legislative proposals that did not themselves cre...
The Supreme Court has not upended the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship but has produced rulings that affect how challenges to it proceed: specifically, in June 2025 the Court restric...
Research across think tanks, the Congressional Budget Office, advocacy groups and media finds that legalization or expanded legal immigration tends to raise tax revenues and long‑run economic growth a...
The available documents and analyses show ; several summaries explicitly state the absence of such a proposal and instead catalogue broader immigration bills and policy frameworks discussed by other a...
The materials provided do not identify any specific newly added to the 2025 continuing resolution; instead, the documents summarize broader budget actions, agency impacts from a potential shutdown, an...
Senate and congressional scorekeepers have for Senator Chuck Schumer’s specific healthcare proposal for undocumented immigrants; the available Congressional Budget Office material reviewed does not co...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued an interim final rule in September 2025 that , adding document requirements such as an unexpired foreign passport and unexpired Form I‑94/I‑94A ....
Individuals stopped by U.S. immigration officers on the street generally have a and to request an attorney before signing documents, but they do not always have a blanket right to refuse identity chec...
US citizens encountering ICE at home in 2025 are consistently told they , but real-world application and enforcement vary by case and agency practice. Recent documents and a federal court ruling show ...
Congressional representation shapes US immigration policy through legislative power over funding, rules, and oversight, producing direct effects on refugee admissions and enforcement that can material...
U.S. citizens face no single, guaranteed documentary “passport” against ICE detention; existing guidance recommends carrying primary citizenship evidence like a U.S. passport or birth certificate, but...