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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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Children of ICE detainees can pursue Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) under existing federal law, and recent litigation by the ACLU of Virginia asserts ICE is detaining youth who already have ...
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 ...
The available EOIR materials in the provided reporting do not contain a clear, single-line figure for how many lawful permanent residents (LPRs were) placed in removal proceedings in calendar year 202...
Locate first, mobilize legal help second: family and advocates should search ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS) using a full name or A-number, and if that fails immediately contact the local ...
DHS referral policies—formal guidance that ranks enforcement priorities and tells front‑line officers when to refer individuals into immigration court—largely determine who is routed into civil remova...
There are public media reports that members of the Trump administration — notably former Border Czar Tom Homan — have said the government is reviewing allegations of immigration fraud involving Rep. I...
Document every ICE encounter promptly and calmly: you have the right to remain silent, to an attorney, and to record public activity (see multiple KYR guides) — and community groups advise collecting ...
FOIA requests to federal immigration agencies (mostly USCIS, ICE, CBP and EOIR) are the primary route to obtain a public figure’s naturalization-related records such as A‑Files, Certificates of Natura...
Deportation enforcement in 2024–25 has expanded sharply under the current administration, with DHS claiming more than 527,000 removals and plans or proposals that would scale detention and expedited r...
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...
Available public reporting and government releases in the provided sources do not give a single, definitive tally of how many Somali asylum applications in the United States were approved or denied si...
Available reporting indicates Rahmanullah Lakanwal applied for asylum in December 2024 and was approved on April 23, 2025; news outlets attribute that approval to the Trump administration but do not c...
USCIS (part of DHS) primarily handles affirmative asylum applications and can grant asylum at an administrative interview; if USCIS denies or refers a case, the applicant may face immigration court an...
U.S. asylum decisions are primarily handled by two distinct bodies: affirmative asylum applications filed inside the U.S. are adjudicated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), while as...