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On the specific claim asking about deportees under Presidents (as of June 20, 2025), the record shows : formal “removals,” broader “repatriations” or “returns/expulsions,” and aggregate enforcement ac...
immigration records reported by multiple outlets show that and his father, , have an active, pending that was docketed in on December 17, 2024, with no final removal order listed — meaning their cases...
None of the provided reports supply a single, authoritative percentage answering “,” and available public tallies conflict: , while a tallied “more than 605,000 deportations” since January 20, 2025 , ...
Only a small number of jurisdictions explicitly record alongside state criminal arrest and conviction records; academic reporting identifies as the only state that systematically tracks arrests and co...
Immigration advocates’ core due process objections after the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) centered on —notably restrictions on bond hearings, limits on judicial...
Immigration courts are civil tribunals that must afford "due process" to noncitizens, but they operate under different rules and practical constraints than criminal courts: there is no guaranteed gove...
Executive Summary The central finding: Fiscal-year snapshots show ICE custody operations running in the low billions annually (e.g., $3.43 billion in FY2024 and $4.18 billion projected in FY2026) whil...
The of 2002 abolished the and redistributed its functions into a newly created , splitting into separate components to prioritize security after 9/11 . The law created a new architecture—, , and —whil...
Attorneys for and his father have told courts and the public that the family has an active and entered the at an authorized port of entry, a claim echoed in local reporting and in court filings . The ...
prove to be a stitched-together mosaic: ’s Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) aggregates and “cleans and validates” reported by , ’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) and the U.S. Border Pat...
Federal data show the United States granted roughly 54,350 people asylum in 2023 (total asylees, including 22,300 affirmative grants) while asylum applications and backlogs remained far larger—over 1....
ICE reported roughly 271,484 removals (often reported as “deportations”) for FY2024 in multiple analyses and agency-adjacent reports . Public analysts and data projects estimate FY2025 removals rose s...
Immigration law allows the government to remove noncitizens even while some applications are pending, but status, process, and discretion vary: asylum applicants placed in removal proceedings face exp...
ICE agent performance is evaluated in practice using operational outputs such as , fitness and training standards, and case-related outcomes that align with immigration court throughput; however, no s...
The short, evidence-based answer: a substantial minority of have historically appeared in without an attorney, and recent policy changes and funding cuts have put many more at risk of doing so; exact ...
Determinations that a person is unlawfully present — and therefore subject to / enforcement — are built on administrative immigration status checks, biometric and biographic data, interactions with ot...
The in the United States is a multi‑agency operation that spans federal law enforcement, , diplomatic channels, detention contractors, and non‑governmental actors who provide legal aid or track remova...
are administrative, civil processes distinct from : they are initiated by immigration authorities, use different standards of proof, and generally do not carry the full panoply of criminal procedural ...
A clear, document-based answer requires three kinds of federal records: ICE custody/booking records showing individual detainees and locations, Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) or federa...
Asylum outcomes under President Biden show a mixed and evolving picture: early in his term asylum grant rates improved from Trump-era lows, but by 2023–2025 denial rates in immigration courts climbed ...