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Multiple media outlets report that a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has provided a dataset to the activist site “ICE List” that allegedly contains sensitive personal details for roughly...
Available reporting shows no single, definitive tally of how many U.S. citizens have been “detained or picked up by ICE” during the 2025 enforcement surge; different outlets and organizations track re...
Official tallies of U.S. deportations vary by administration and by how “deportation” is defined — removals (formal deportations), returns/administrative returns, and expulsions (Title 42-era expulsio...
Reporting and investigations in 2025 have documented at least "more than 170" U.S. citizens arrested or detained by immigration agents since President Trump’s second term began; ProPublica’s tally is ...
ICE significantly expanded and publicized signing and other hiring bonuses in 2025 — offering “up to $50,000” for new recruits and returnees and additional payments such as a $10,000 annual bonus for ...
Available reporting and advocacy tallies indicate thousands of people have been reported “missing” from ICE/DHS public records since early 2025: a crowd‑sourced tracker claims 5,784 disappeared beginn...
Available sources show multiple ways of counting “deportations” under President Joe Biden: DHS/ICE dashboards and reporting cite annual removals like about 271,000–272,000 in FY2024 while analyses tha...
The precise number of ICE agents who identify as Black is not published in a single, up‑to‑date official table, but contemporary reporting and academic estimates place Black representation in ICE in t...
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...
Multiple news outlets report that had at least one confrontation with federal immigration officers roughly one week to 11 days before he was shot and killed; and several follow-ups say he suffered a b...
A family says an ICE/CBP vehicle sprayed a 1-year-old and her parents during a Nov. 2025 operation in the Chicago area after federal agents were conducting immigration enforcement; the Department of H...
There is no reliable, documented evidence in the supplied reporting that New York Police Department officers have arrested ICE agents; viral footage claiming such arrests has been debunked as AI-gener...
Since the creation of DHS in 2003, funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has , with ICE’s budget growing from roughly $3.3 billion to about $9.6–$9.7 billion by FY2024–FY2025 and ...
Available reporting and government data show the number of deportations (officially “removals”) fluctuated across the Biden years, with DHS/ICE figures placing removals and faster border “returns” in ...
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...
The available reporting shows a massive ramp-up in U.S. immigration enforcement during 2025, with federal officials and DHS claiming hundreds of thousands of removals and self‑deportations and indepen...
Federal immigration agencies have surged personnel into Minnesota in January 2026, with contemporary reporting and legal filings describing "thousands" of DHS officers and media accounts citing more t...
Reporting and government documents show that U.S. immigration agents have detained dozens — and that some U.S. citizens have been deported or wrongfully removed — but the exact tally is unclear becaus...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has repeatedly reported that between roughly 1.6 million and 1.9 million people “self‑deported” from the United States since January 20, 2025, a figure the de...
In his first year (January–November 2025), President Trump pursued a high-volume agenda of executive orders and policy moves, claimed major economic wins such as “671,000 net jobs added since January ...