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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...
The most consequential recent Supreme Court action affecting through November 2025 was the court’s September 2025 order staying a district judge’s injunction that had limited ICE’s ability to stop and...
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...
detainers are administrative requests—commonly Form I‑247—that ask local jails to notify ICE of an inmate’s release and/or hold the person up to 48 extra hours so ICE can assume custody . Many localit...
Teachers who urge students to join protests operate in a legally fraught zone: school employees acting "within the scope of their job duties" can face limits on First Amendment protections and distric...
of the Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes the to delegate certain federal functions to trained state, local, and tribal officers through written memoranda of agreement (MOAs), which exist in d...
limit or condition local cooperation with federal —most often by refusing detainer requests, limiting information-sharing, or barring local arrests for civil immigration violations—which can reduce th...
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...
cannot "shut down" in the sense of abolishing the agency or cutting its funding — those powers lie with and the President — but the Court can decisively constrain, expand, or pause ICE’s authority by ...
Public records from and mapping projects show the has exploded since 2020, with well over 1,000 memoranda of agreement covering agencies in —but the available reporting and datasets describe the progr...
A constellation of nonprofit law firms, national advocacy groups, regional legal services, and youth- and community-led networks drive and advocacy in , with private foundations, community foundations...
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...
Twenty‑six U.S. states had some form of “stop‑and‑identify” or “must‑identify” statute as of recent surveys, but the exact scope and penalties vary widely from state to state and depend on whether an ...
If ICE asks to see documentation at your home, you generally do not have to let agents in without a judicial search warrant; ICE “administrative” forms aren’t the same as a warrant signed by a judge (...
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...
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...
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...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that any sitting member of the Congress has been -of-us-congress-members">denaturalized or prosecuted specifically for immigration-related fraud; the sou...
The principal legal framework governing what happens to children when arrests a parent is (Directive 11064.4), issued in July 2025, which sets internal agency protocols intended to protect parental ri...