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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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 available reporting and government statements present of undocumented foreigners deported from the United States in 2025; estimates for formal removals range roughly from the high‑hundreds of thou...
The Department of Homeland Security announced it has waived upper age caps for new ICE law‑enforcement applicants — a change Secretary Kristi Noem framed as “ending the age cap” so “qualified candidat...
ICE and DHS reporting and multiple news analyses show hundreds of thousands of removals in 2025, with a large share of those detained or deported lacking criminal convictions. For example, a Marshall ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...