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American immigration law
U.S. federal law defines “alien” simply as “any person not a citizen or national of the United States,” a statutory definition found in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and codified in Title ...
The U.S. Constitution never expressly barred Muslims from holding federal office; and was adopted to prevent exactly that kind of exclusion . Historical records show debates in the 1780s acknowledged ...
The short answer: absent a valid exception, ’s jurisprudence has long required a judicially issued warrant to physically enter a private home to make an arrest, and an internal memo asserting that adm...
Interfering with ICE (a federal agency) and interfering with local police carry different legal risks, practical consequences, and political meanings: federal law treats obstruction of federal officer...
and together create a patchwork of protections intended to limit how children are held when detained with parents and to prioritize family unity and sanitary, least-restrictive settings, but implement...
ICE’s ability to ask for identification during encounters traces to its immigration enforcement authority under federal law and agency practice; ICE says officers must identify themselves and show cre...
U.S. law does not use a single plain‑English definition for “illegal immigrant”; federal statutes define categories of alien presence and conduct—such as unlawful entry, unauthorized presence, and vis...
Federal immigration officers generally cannot force entry into the nonpublic areas of a private home in Minnesota without a judicially issued warrant; ICE’s so‑called “administrative” or agency-issued...
ICE’s statutory authority to arrest and detain flows primarily from the Immigration and Nationality Act and related DHS policies, giving the agency broad administrative power over “aliens” believed re...
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...
Federal law gives ICE statutory authority to arrest people without a judicial warrant in many circumstances, but the Fourth Amendment and court rulings limit when agents may enter private homes or non...
The Biden administration’s border and asylum policies have faced a steady stream of from states, advocacy groups, and federal judges, resulting in a mix of rulings that both reinstated and struck down...
Removal, expulsion, and voluntary return/departure are distinct legal mechanisms that result in a noncitizen leaving the United States: "removal" is a formal order of the immigration system typically ...
distinguish three related but legally and operationally distinct outcomes: removals (formal orders of deportation with penalties), returns (movements out without an order and typically no administrati...
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) focuses on administrative arrests of people it believes are removable and also can execute criminal warrants; historically many arrested have convictions...
is justified by officials as a tool to ensure people appear for or to secure removal when statutorily required, and to hold those judged a public-safety or flight risk while their cases proceed . Crit...
is the popular label for family-based or family‑reunification immigration—when a person admitted to the sponsors relatives who may in turn sponsor others—and U.S. law since the 1950s has alternately r...
Green card holders can be placed in removal proceedings for immigration fraud or—much more rarely—on public‑charge grounds, with fraud and misrepresentation being longstanding deportability triggers u...
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) defines “alien” in section 101(a) as “any person not a citizen or national of the United States,” a plain statutory definition repeated across official codifi...
is the statutory process by which issues a formal order requiring a non‑citizen to leave the country; “return” (or “voluntary return/administrative voluntary departure”) generally refers to non‑court ...