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Brennan Center for Justice

American nonprofit organization

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Jan 22, 2026
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How many illegal immigrants have killed in the US from 2000 and

No reliable, authoritative tally exists in the public record that counts “ in the U.S. from 2000” because the federal government does not maintain a comprehensive, national dataset linking immigration...

Jan 26, 2026
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How many crimes are committed by illegal immigrants

The best available, peer-reviewed and government-linked analyses indicate that undocumented (illegal) immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native‑born citizens, with multiple studies finding s...

Jan 12, 2026
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are anti-ICE protestors being paid or compensated in any way for their activism

Available reporting does not establish a proven, widespread practice of paying anti-ICE protesters; assertions that demonstrators were being paid come from political leaders, preliminary federal probe...

Jan 22, 2026

have illegal immigrants voted in the us

Yes — there are documented instances in which noncitizens (including unauthorized immigrants) have been found to have registered or cast ballots in U.S. elections, but independent audits and governmen...

Jan 17, 2026

Which presidents used the insurrection act

The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...

Oct 27, 2025

What percentage of US prisoners are illegal immigrants according to 2024 data?

Official data do not support a single, precise national percentage of U.S. prisoners who are unauthorized (illegal) immigrants for 2024; federal reporting covers only portions of the system, and , mak...

Dec 3, 2025

how many illegal immigrants voted in the 2024 election

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...

Jan 17, 2026

Can a US president unilaterally suspend federal elections under martial law?

A president cannot unilaterally suspend federal elections under a claim of martial law; constitutional text, statute, Supreme Court precedents, and expert legal analyses all place the power to alter o...

Jan 26, 2026

how is ICE funded

funds through annual appropriations within the budget and occasional multi-year or supplemental spending packages, with headline FY2026 figures in the $10–11 billion range and contested multi‑year sur...

Jan 13, 2026

How many protesters have been assaulted or killed by ice agents

Across the reporting provided, there is one widely reported fatality of a protester shot by an ICE agent — the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis — but there is no reliable, publicly availabl...

Jan 13, 2026

What percentage of ICE captures are violent criminals

The share of people taken into ICE custody who have violent criminal convictions is small: independent analyses put that figure around 5–8 percent, while broader DHS messaging claims a much higher sha...

Jan 24, 2026

How are Ice protestors getting funding?

Public reporting does not provide a clear ledger of dollars handed to street-level demonstrators opposing ; instead the coverage documents a political and organizational ecosystem — congressional appr...

Dec 10, 2025

Born in America act , did it pass

Congress introduced multiple “Born in the USA/Birthright Citizenship” bills in 2025 that would limit or protect birthright citizenship; none of the introduced bills cited in available sources are show...

Jan 26, 2026

Number of murders in use due to illegal immigrants.

Claims that in the each year are committed by undocumented (illegal) immigrants are not supported by available evidence: independent fact‑checking and peer analyses find no credible national count of ...

Jan 16, 2026

Illegal migrant crime in US

Research across federal datasets and independent scholars shows that immigrants — including those in the country without authorization — are not more likely to commit crime than U.S.-born residents; m...

Jan 20, 2026

Does ICE have a larger budget than the marines or the FBI?

The short answer: under the new “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) enacted in mid‑2025, ICE’s funding swelled enough that it very likely surpasses the FBI in annual resources, but whether ICE’s annual bu...

Jan 24, 2026

198 democrats voted aginst voter id

Yes — in the House vote on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, the final tally was 221–198 and voted against the measure, as shown in the official roll call and contemporary reporting...

Nov 11, 2025

How much fraud was there in 2020 election?

The evidence assembled by election experts, courts, and multiple fact‑checking analyses shows ; isolated incidents were investigated but were too few to affect the outcome . Major institutions includi...

Dec 10, 2025

How did total ICE funding change each fiscal year from 2017 to 2025?

ICE’s enacted base appropriations rose from roughly $6.8–$6.9 billion in FY2017 to about $8.4–8.7 billion by FY2024–FY2025 before Congress’s July 2025 reconciliation bill supercharged funding, produci...

Dec 14, 2025

7-2 Supreme Court’s ruling Trump has partial immunity

The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States created a mixed immunity rule: absolute immunity for some “core” presidential functions, presumptive immunity for official acts at the “outer per...