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President Obama’s administrations relied heavily on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out removals, producing more than over eight years with a fiscal-year peak in 2012 of roughl...
The Obama administration mixed executive relief efforts with aggressive enforcement, producing both expanded prosecutorial discretion programs like DACA/DAPA and a fast-paced removal system critics sa...
Between 2009 and 2016, ; the Senate passed a broad reform bill in 2013 that stalled in the House, while Republican-led congressional actions focused on contesting executive relief programs like DACA a...
Several federal courts have recently ruled against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on due process and detention-conditions grounds, including and , among others. These decisions include prel...
The Biden administration implemented a mix of reversals of Trump-era restrictions, operational expansions for asylum processing, and selective use of pandemic-era expulsions in 2021. Key changes inclu...
Undocumented immigrants are for federally funded Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage or premium tax credits under current U.S. law; this is consistently stated across official guidance and ...
Available reporting in the provided sources establishes that Ilhan Omar is a naturalized U.S. citizen who serves in Congress, not an undocumented immigrant; experts and outlets say calls to deport her...
The direct answer is: federal sources and expert analyses show , so there is no authoritative count of “illegal aliens” enrolled; available reporting instead documents eligibility limits and the popul...
Donald Trump’s most notable legal outcomes in the provided analyses center on a high‑profile New York civil fraud trial that produced a major monetary judgment and operational restraints, and broader ...
ICE arrested Bruna Caroline Ferreira — the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s 11‑year‑old nephew — on Nov. 12 in Revere, Massachusetts; reporting says she was taken into custody ...
Undocumented immigrants are broadly , but they can access certain state-funded programs, emergency services, and limited non-cash assistance depending on state and local policies; recent 2025 policy c...
Undocumented immigrants in the United States face on most public benefits, but they and their U.S.-born children still access a mix of emergency care, school-based services, nutrition programs, and so...
US citizens can and have filed lawsuits against ICE and related federal agencies claiming emotional distress from alleged wrongful detention or abusive conduct, but success depends on the factual reco...
Many Trump supporters believe because of a mix of political rhetoric, visible exceptions in program rules, and confusion over complex eligibility rules; the factual record shows , though state and eme...
As of late 2025 and early January 2026, ICE was holding roughly 69,000–70,000 people in custody, a historic high driven largely by the agency’s expanded interior arrests and detention expansion . Avai...
Undocumented immigrants can and do own homes in the U.S., and some obtain mortgages through non‑traditional channels — especially "ITIN loans" from private or non‑conforming lenders — but they are gen...
Available reporting consistently says undocumented immigrants are not eligible to buy Marketplace coverage or receive federal premium tax credits, and therefore standard counts of “ACA Marketplace enr...
Democrats are not seeking to fund federal health-care benefits for people who are undocumented; U.S. law already bars most federally funded health coverage for undocumented immigrants, and Democratic ...
The Obama and Trump administrations pursued markedly different immigration enforcement philosophies: , while . These distinctions show up in enforcement directives, prosecutorial priorities, programma...
The Democratic Party’s formal 2024 platform expresses a general commitment to expanding health-care access, but it , leaving room for state-level variation and political debate . Since 2024, Democrati...