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Yes — immigration agents under ICE and related DHS components fired their weapons and were involved in shootings during the Obama years, but publicly available reporting does not provide a single, ver...
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...
Publicly available and reporting cited in the provided materials confirm a of ICE’s workforce—more than doubling from roughly 10,000 to over 22,000 officers and agents in under a year—but do not, in t...
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 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 publicly says its staffing more than doubled in 2025 after a recruitment surge that added roughly 12,000 officers and agents, swelling the force from about 10,000 to more than 22,000 nationwide . ...
It depends — there is no single federal prohibition that universally bars people from bringing weapons to protests, but courts have upheld that governments may impose “reasonable regulations,” and man...
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...
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...
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...
The footage circulating that appears to show kicking, spitting on and damaging a federal vehicle 11 days before he was shot has been widely reported as authentic by multiple outlets and confirmed as d...
As of late January 2026, publicly available reporting and government disclosures show that people have died while in custody in 2026, though earlier accounts counted four deaths in the first ten days ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ICE publishes individual detainee death reports and a death-reporting policy, but the sources provided do not contain a single, official year-by-year tally from 2000 through 2025; available reporting ...
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 ...
Recent reporting shows two sharply divergent narratives about who ICE is arresting: federal officials and DHS communications assert that a large majority of arrests target people with criminal convict...