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There is a sustained claim from the Trump administration and allied officials that some anti-ICE demonstrators in Minnesota are “paid agitators” or “professional agitators,” but the reporting provided...
The President can issue executive orders directing agencies to identify and attempt to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary,” but longstanding constitutional limits, prior cour...
Federal law permits immigration officers to carry firearms and use force as part of their statutory powers, but that authority is tightly framed by departmental policies, constitutional limits, and in...
The analyses provided indicate that the Trump administration has been formally accused of ignoring or circumventing court orders in roughly in which judges issued substantive rulings, based on reviews...
ICE agents have statutory authority to make warrantless arrests for immigration violations and, in limited circumstances, for certain criminal offenses—especially when the offense occurs in the office...
Two authoritative but differing tallies describe the nonfatal toll on officers from the January 6, 2021, attack: union and contemporaneous reporting put the figure at about , while a Government Accoun...
Prosecutors must show that defendants used force, threats of force, physical obstruction, property damage, or intentional intimidation that injured or interfered with worshippers’ ability to exercise ...
Section 1325 criminalizes an initial unlawful entry into the —generally a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail—while Section 1326 criminalizes unlawful reentry after a prior removal or d...
The Constitution’s generally prohibits searches and seizures without probable cause and a magistrate-signed warrant, but courts have carved out limited exceptions and federal immigration statutes gran...
No credible record shows Barack Obama was ever formally charged with a crime during or after his presidency. Recent 2025 political actions have sought investigations and grand juries into Obama-era of...
Current law permits Americans to hold dual citizenship; Senator Bernie Moreno’s new “Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025” would force dual nationals to choose or be treated as having relinquished U.S. c...
treats most immigration violations as civil, not criminal, matters: conduct like unlawful presence or overstaying a visa is handled through civil removal (deportation) proceedings with penalties such ...
The U.S. government uses a mix of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and interagency processes to label individuals or organizations as terrorists, centering on whether they have committed or p...
Yes—federal law gives ICE officers broad authority to make arrests and, under Attorney General–prescribed regulations, to carry firearms while performing immigration-enforcement duties , but that auth...
U.S. federal law treats CSAM—legally called “child pornography”—as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a person under 18; possession, production, and distribution are federal c...
has taken a mix of legal, legislative and administrative preparatory steps while remains tied up in court: the state pursued appeals to lift lower-court injunctions and the marked judicial victories a...
Statutes of limitations, claims of presidential immunity, and classification rules all create legal and practical barriers to using the newly mandated “Epstein files” to open or win prosecutions or ci...
The president can direct executive agencies to identify and try to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary,” and administrations have used executive orders and agency directives t...
No credible, verifiable evidence has been produced showing widespread fraud that changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election; multiple courts, the Department of Justice, major news inve...
Title 8 U.S.C. § 1357 is the federal statutory backbone for immigration officers’ field powers—authorizing certain interrogations, arrests, searches, seizures, and oath‑taking in immigration matters—a...