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U.S. citizens approached by ICE should assert their rights calmly: remain silent, ask if they are free to leave, and — if safe — show proof of citizenship rather than volunteering details; do not cons...
A plurality of U.S. states have some form of “stop-and-identify” statute that allows police who have reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity to require a stopped person to identify them...
U.S. law already allows revocation of naturalized citizenship primarily when the citizenship was “illegally procured” — most commonly by fraud or willful misrepresentation — but limited statutory path...
ICE coordinates with local police, Customs and Border Protection (including Border Patrol), state National Guard units and other federal agencies through formal deputization programs, memoranda of agr...
The states that appeared to show the lowest cooperation with ICE enforcement in 2025 were those that have enacted broad “sanctuary” limits or persistent local policies restricting jail access and deta...
U.S. courts have long treated denaturalization as a narrow, judicially constrained remedy for fraud or concealment in the naturalization process, and courts have recognized that children or spouses wh...
The 287(g) program deputizes state and local law enforcement to perform defined federal immigration functions under written agreements with ICE, using several enforcement “models” (jail, task force/pa...
Households facing suspected unlawful entries by ICE should prioritize safety while preserving evidence: refuse entry without a judicial warrant, document the encounter carefully, and contact legal and...
You have a First Amendment right to protest and to record ICE and other federal officers in public so long as you don’t physically interfere with their duties; legal groups and civil-rights orgs say I...
Available sources do not provide a single year-by-year count of denaturalizations from 2005 onward; reporting and legal briefs instead give multi-year totals and averages — for example, researchers fo...
Acquisition and derivation of U.S. citizenship are routes that give people citizenship by operation of law—typically through a parent or by being born in the U.S.—whereas naturalization is a voluntary...
Immigration and advocacy reporting shows —ranging from misrepresenting identity to staged scenarios designed to obtain voluntary consent to enter homes—and a recent internal memo authorizes forcible e...
State and local “sanctuary” policies have demonstrably narrowed one of ICE’s traditional pipelines — transfers from local jails via detainers and 287(g)-style cooperation — reducing some jail-origin a...
School employees retain core constitutional and statutory protections during encounters with federal immigration authorities: the right to remain silent and to request an attorney, limits on ICE’s aut...
Independent, FOIA-based verification of ICE removals and arrests is possible using agency FOIA portals and public releases, intermediary project datasets that post original individual-level records ob...
Community members can provide meaningful, legal assistance to immigrants during ICE actions by focusing on preparedness, documentation, rapid legal referrals, and non-obstructive accompaniment—steps t...
Federal constitutional protections—the Fourth Amendment’s bar on unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee—form the core legal shield against raciall...
Individuals in the United States retain core constitutional protections when confronted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): the right to remain silent, the right to refuse consent to searche...
ICE "detainers" are administrative requests that ask local jails to notify ICE of a person's release and hold them up to 48 hours for transfer; they carry no independent arrest warrant power, and cour...
Civil‑rights organizations have, in the past five years, recorded a steady stream of concrete outcomes against ICE—class settlements that release detainees or restrict detainers, court judgments affir...