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Available reporting and advocacy tallies indicate thousands of people have been reported “missing” from ICE/DHS public records since early 2025: a crowd‑sourced tracker claims 5,784 disappeared beginn...
Barack Obama’s administration developed a formal, internal framework (the Presidential Policy Guidance, PPG) that imposed specific constraints—such as geographic limits, a “near-certainty” standard to...
Public reporting does not provide a clear ledger of dollars handed to street-level demonstrators opposing ; instead the coverage documents a political and organizational ecosystem — congressional appr...
Fifteen men were reported to remain in U.S. custody at Guantánamo as of early January 2025, and public reporting divides their legal statuses into three groups: a small number formally cleared for tra...
ICE and related trackers show a large uptick in enforcement activity in 2025 compared with 2024, reflected in record detention counts (e.g., 61,226 detained on Aug. 23, 2025) and high deportation esti...
Official tallies for “” diverge sharply: press releases claim between roughly 527,000 and 675,000 removals and say millions more self‑deported , while independent trackers and agency data compiled by ...
There is no authoritative, publicly available count of how many U.S. citizens were deported by ICE in 2025; reporting documents multiple high-profile wrongful detentions and deportations but governmen...
The ICC can exercise criminal jurisdiction over nationals of non‑party states in limited circumstances: when the alleged crimes occurred on the territory of a State Party, when the UN Security Council...
President Trump has deployed or sought to deploy National Guard and, at times, federalized troops to multiple Democratic-led cities this year — including Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Portland; Chica...
The Biden administration both relied on and defended Title 42 expulsions for much of its term, producing millions of rapid expulsions at the border, and after Title 42 ended in May 2023 the administra...
ICE removals in 2025 showed a marked shift in scale and destination mix compared with prior years: reporting and independent trackers describe a large surge in deportation flights and removals since J...
Available reporting documents multiple allegations and formal complaints that people — including unhoused individuals — have vanished after encounters with federal immigration authorities, and human-r...
The conference text and reporting on the FY2026 Homeland Security appropriations package show a contested bill that broadly funds at $64.4 billion, maintains at roughly current levels while adding som...
, a public‑health order invoked during the , and the (known as “Remain in ” or MPP) reshaped asylum processing by turning expedited expulsions and mandatory waits in Mexico into primary tools for cont...
Reporting from major outlets and monitoring groups documents numerous instances in 2025 of U.S. citizens being detained, questioned, handcuffed and in some cases held for hours or days by ICE during l...
Fiscal year (FY) 2025 removals by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are not reported as a single unambiguous, final number in the public datasets provided by ICE and DHS; independent anal...
The 2026 “No Kings Day” is not the product of a single group but of a national coalition centered on the No Kings movement and a broad alliance of progressive organizations—Indivisible, 50501 and scor...
Several measurable policies from 2024–2025 critics say have harmed the U.S. economy and democratic institutions center on large, across‑the‑board tariffs and an agenda dubbed “Project 2025.” Independe...
Available reporting does not provide a definitive state-by-state ranking of “white supremacist–linked violent incidents per capita”; national data sets show right‑wing and white‑supremacist violence o...
The Obama administration repeatedly relied on the 2001 AUMF as a broad statutory basis for counterterrorism strikes, expanding its application beyond the original 9/11 perpetrators to groups such as I...