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Multiple media outlets report that a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has provided a dataset to the activist site “ICE List” that allegedly contains sensitive personal details for roughly...
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 basic academy for many new ICE frontline officers was sharply shortened in 2025 to a roughly six- to eight-week program that ICE and oversight reporting describe as amounting to about 47 days of i...
As a general rule, modern policing doctrine and federal guidance advise officers not to stand in front of or shoot into moving vehicles and to move out of the vehicle’s path when feasible; shooting at...
Illegally entering the United States is treated as both a civil and a criminal matter under U.S. law: unauthorized presence and overstaying are principally civil immigration violations that can trigge...
Official U.S. government and independent analyses show millions of “encounters” at the U.S.–Mexico border during Joe Biden’s presidency, but that raw encounter counts are not the same as people “let i...
Available reporting shows no single, definitive tally of how many U.S. citizens have been “detained or picked up by ICE” during the 2025 enforcement surge; different outlets and organizations track re...
No U.S. senator appears among the persons formally identified or sanctioned in the Department of the Treasury’s public Venezuela-related actions, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporti...
Video footage, witness accounts and frame-by-frame analyses published by major outlets indicate the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, was not struck by Renee Good’s SUV; instead, footage suggests the vehicle ...
Yes — federal reporting and court records show at least some current or former ICE employees have been charged with sexual crimes, including allegations of rape and sexual abuse; notable examples incl...
ICE and DHS reporting and independent trackers show deportations in 2025 have surged: DHS has announced figures ranging from “more than 400,000” to 527,000 removals in under a year, while the Departme...
Estimates vary because officials, analysts and media use different measures: Border Patrol “encounters” since January 2021 exceed 10 million, about 8 million at the southwest land border, but that raw...
Federal REAL ID rules require applicants to prove identity, date of birth, Social Security number, two proofs of residence, and lawful status; for U.S. citizens that lawful-status requirement is satis...
ICE significantly expanded and publicized signing and other hiring bonuses in 2025 — offering “up to $50,000” for new recruits and returnees and additional payments such as a $10,000 annual bonus for ...
The claim that “every person deported under Obama had due process” is false: , raising persistent due-process concerns. Multiple contemporaneous and retrospective studies document that many removals w...
ICE and other DHS agents say their policy forbids arresting or deporting U.S. citizens, but multiple investigations, reporting and congressional actions document hundreds of incidents in which citizen...
ICE training is not a single, fixed course but a patchwork of programs that depend on job type: special agents typically complete inter-agency programs at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (...
President Barack Obama directed and used U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the principal interior enforcement arm to remove unauthorized immigrants during his administration, producing...
Available sources show multiple ways of counting “deportations” under President Joe Biden: DHS/ICE dashboards and reporting cite annual removals like about 271,000–272,000 in FY2024 while analyses tha...
The ICE agent identified as Jonathan Ross has become the focal point of contested excessive-force allegations after he fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis; his record includes a high-profile...