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President Biden’s record on the southern border is contested: Republican officials and conservative organizations say his early policy reversals and enforcement memos loosened deterrence and “fueled” ...
Jeffrey Epstein’s pre-death records show while in custody: medical intake and prison records list conditions such as sleep apnea, hypertension, pre-diabetes, constipation and lower‑back pain, and he r...
The Trump administration’s public statements and DHS materials claim it has “located more than 24,400” unaccompanied migrant children in-person through visits and door knocks, not 62,000 . Reporting a...
Declassified records and longstanding investigations show MKULTRA combined pharmacology (notably LSD) with coercive techniques—electroshock, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, sleep and temperature extrem...
Available sources show multiple partisan, unverified articles claiming Senator John Kennedy read or revealed a report about Representative Ilhan Omar, but none of the provided items identify a specifi...
The Basic Immigration Enforcement Training Program (BIETP) is described by U.S. federal training officials as the entry‑level training delivered at the ICE Academy in Glynco, Georgia, and successful c...
Article 92 of the UCMJ governs failure to obey orders and regulations and is the principal statute used when a service member is accused of disobeying a lawful order (10 U.S.C. §892) . For disobedienc...
Recent reporting and agency materials converge on a consistent set of background-check disqualifiers for prospective ICE agents: . Contemporary news reports from October 2025 document hundreds of recr...
The reviewed sources do not provide a measured or reported *average age* at which ICE law enforcement officers actually retire; instead, they repeatedly state the statutory that allow law enforcement ...
There is in the provided materials for how many ICE detainees reported due process violations in 2024; the available reports and analyses document widespread allegations of rights violations but stop ...
Since January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) rewrote and clarified aspects of its use-of-force and crowd-control posture, adopting explicit prohibitions, new equipment, refresher trainings an...
Public reporting in the provided sources does not document a clear, well‑substantiated pattern of ICE hiring agents who were later publicly confirmed as members of extremist groups; available reportin...
Several public reports and trackers have flagged business dealings and stock trades by members of Nancy Pelosi’s family that involve companies with exposure to China, but there is tied to Chinese busi...
Service members are legally required to obey lawful orders but the UCMJ recognizes limits: orders that are “manifestly unlawful” provide a defense against charges under Article 90 (willfully disobeyin...
U.S. military law treats an order as “lawful” if it is within the issuing officer’s authority, serves a valid military purpose, and does not conflict with the U.S. Constitution, statutes, or internati...
and the courts possess a suite of overlapping tools to that amount to de facto arrest targets: congressional committees can subpoena, hold hearings, threaten contempt and use the power of the purse, w...
MKUltra focused heavily on LSD and “psychedelic drugs,” often at high or experimental doses, and combined drugging with hypnosis, electroshock and sensory deprivation; CIA records and declassified mem...
No single authoritative total for “child trafficking cases reported at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2024” appears in the available reporting. Government datasets and major reports discuss surges in migra...
A service member may refuse an order under the UCMJ only if the order is unlawful — that is, if it directs the commission of a crime, violates the Constitution, federal law, or military regulations — ...
Multiple news outlets report that former and current officials, legal experts and several congressional committees have opened or called for investigations into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s rol...