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ICE has not provided a single definitive count of “lost” children; federal oversight and media reviews point to large but differently characterized tallies: a March 2025 Department of Homeland Securit...
You can usually tell legitimate ICE officers from impostors by checking for official identification, the presence of multiple officers, the absence of demands for money, and whether a judicial warrant...
Claims about how many unaccompanied migrant children were "lost" under the Biden administration vary widely in partisan and official accounts; congressional and watchdog reporting cites figures rangin...
U.S. maritime drug-interdiction authority is built on a mix of statutes and implementing instruments centered on the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA, codified at 46 U.S.C. ch. 705) and implem...
Federal oversight of ICE training during the recent rapid hiring surge is multi‑layered in theory—Congressional committees, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Department of Homeland Secur...
The investigation of allegations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents is led internally by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which assesses reports via an integ...
There are multiple news accounts from September–November 2025 documenting confrontations between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel and protesters, clergy, and community members, incl...
Federal investigations of alleged misconduct by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are carried out by a mix of internal ICE units and independent federal bodies: ICE’s Office of Profes...
ICE can and has mistakenly detained U.S. citizens—cases documented in courts, advocacy reports, and local reporting show Americans have been handcuffed, held for hours or days, and at times moved thro...
Available reporting shows no single, unambiguous count of migrant children "missing" or "trafficked" since 2021; instead, officials and watchdogs have cited several different figures tied to distinct ...
Residents can report alleged ICE agent misconduct through several official and unofficial channels, but . The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) accepts anonymous co...
No mass, high-profile “resolved” cases that account for the hundreds of thousands figure circulated in 2024–25 emerged in 2025; instead the year produced a mix of targeted recoveries (notably an HSI o...
287(g) agreements formally delegate specific federal immigration enforcement powers to designated state or local officers, changing routine local roles by authorizing them to identify, arrest, and pro...
Missing children in the United States remain a complex mix of local cases, large recovery operations and disputed national figures. Official sources and recent reporting show targeted rescue operation...
You have legal protections while in ICE custody that are shaped by agency detention standards and federal oversight mechanisms; ICE’s 2025 National Detention Standards state detainees “are treated hum...
The Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) audited component handling of and issued recommendations to centralize oversight, improve case tracking, update policies, and strengthen training; DHS formall...
A small set of official, government-published datasets and mandated death‑report publications exist for deaths in DHS custody: ICE’s centrally posted “Detainee Death Reports,” IRS/OIG and DHS oversigh...
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) published an FY2023 Annual Performance Report that contains two appendices — one for methodology and one for statistics comput...
Private prison contracts have shaped medical care standards in ICE detention by creating layered responsibilities, financial incentives to cut costs, and variable application of the highest detention ...
Since 2015, local reporting has documented a small number of criminal cases and convictions directly involving ICE employees, most prominently a federal conviction and sentencing in Ohio, while broade...