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Available reporting does not document that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "killed" detainees as a matter of policy; instead, multiple investigations and civil-society reports count people w...
Estimates for the fiscal “cost” of illegal immigration in 2024 diverge sharply because analysts measure different things (gross spending, net cost after taxes, federal vs. state/local impacts, and sho...
Quantifying annual deportations by U.S. president since 1990 is complicated by multiple data categories (formal “removals,” “returns,” Title 42 expulsions and voluntary departures) and by different ag...
ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to mid-October 2025 show a large and growing share of people taken into custody who had no prior criminal convictions — studies and media analyses put that share anywhere from...
There is no single, authoritative figure in the supplied sources that gives a neat, recent percentage of households on “welfare” broken out exactly as White, Somali, Black, and Latino. Available repor...
The short answer: there is no authoritative source showing "20 million" or "25 million" people illegally entered and remained in the United States during the Biden presidency; government encounter cou...
Available evidence does not show a clear, sustained link between mass shooters being predominantly “conservative” or “liberal”; researchers and major trackers emphasize motive, online radicalization, ...
Research does not support a simple answer that “Muslim immigrants resist assimilation.” Multiple studies and reviews show mixed outcomes: some work finds Muslim immigrants assimilate at similar rates ...
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...
Available sources show a complex picture: surveys and academic studies find that support for political violence has fluctuated and in some periods is similar across parties, while incident-level data ...
Available reporting shows a wide range of ways to count “ICE arrests.” Multiple data analyses find that a majority of people booked into ICE custody in 2025 had no violent convictions — one analysis s...
The short answer depends on how “deported” is defined: if counting formal DHS removals, Barack Obama presided over the largest number in recent history; if combining removals, “returns,” and expulsion...
Since 2020, multiple analyses converge on the conclusion that , but recent data through 2025 show signs of shifting patterns that complicate a simple tally. Government, academic, and think‑tank summar...
ICE and related trackers show a large uptick in enforcement activity in 2025 compared with 2024, reflected in record detention counts (e.g., 61,226 detained on Aug. 23, 2025) and high deportation esti...
Estimates of government spending per deportee in 2025 vary widely: the Department of Homeland Security gives an average “arrest, detain and remove” cost of $17,121 per deportee (cited by DHS and multi...
Charlie Kirk’s remarks that drew accusations of antisemitism included a December 2023 AmericaFest line and a podcast comment saying, “Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ide...
There is no authoritative, published count of the net number of undocumented immigrants who “came in” during Donald Trump’s first term; government statistics track encounters, apprehensions and remova...
Federal SNAP (food stamp) spending was about $100.3 billion in FY2024, serving roughly 41–42 million people at an average benefit near $187–$190 per person per month, or about $2,250 per person per ye...
Independent researchers who analyzed FOIA-obtained ICE records — principally the Deportation Data Project and affiliated analyses — conclude that roughly two-thirds of ICE arrests in the 2025–2026 rep...
The Clinton presidency signed and implemented several laws and policies in 1994–1997 that academics, advocates and government officials say expanded the tools for detention and deportation—most notabl...