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Most ViewedWilliam Sacha Riley
A search of the provided reporting turned up multiple public figures named William Riley across academia, healthcare leadership, government enforcement, entertainment, music and private industry, but ...
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17 resultsNov 9, 2025
Most ViewedHow many immigrants benefited from the amnesty program during George H W Bush's presidency?
The claim that “1.5 million immigrants benefited from an amnesty under President George H.W. Bush” mixes distinct policies and disputed estimates; the most reliable contemporaneous data indicate . Con...
Nov 8, 2025
Most ViewedWhat Supreme Court cases have addressed presidential unilateral tariff authority?
The materials show that the Supreme Court has long grappled with whether and when Congress may delegate tariff‑setting or trade‑restricting powers to the President, and that the Court’s prior preceden...
Jan 31, 2026
How did the ICE budget change after the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003?
’s budget started small at its creation in 2003—roughly $3.3 billion by most accounts—and has grown substantially in two phases: a steady climb over the first two decades to roughly $7–9 billion annua...
Jan 12, 2026
Historical timeline of ICE detention policy shifts since 2003
Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, responsibility for immigration detention has moved into a distinct federal agency and evolved from a framework of national standards ...
Nov 16, 2025
What is the role of the Fourth Amendment in deportation proceedings?
The Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures does apply to noncitizens in the United States, but courts have limited the remedy of excluding evidence in deportation (ci...
Oct 31, 2025
How many removals did the Trump administration record each year 2017 2018 2019 2020?
The available sources provide for removals during the Trump administration: ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) reports and DHS compilations yield different annual series. The most consistent...
Oct 10, 2025
How did Clinton's immigration policy address asylum seeker claims?
The three provided analyses contain no substantive information about immigration policies or how his administration addressed asylum seeker claims; each piece instead focuses on more recent asylum top...
Feb 3, 2026
What are historical per‑bed construction and retrofit costs for prison and large institutional conversions in the U.S. since 2000?
Across available reporting, for building new prisons in the since 2000 have varied widely—from low tens of thousands of dollars in older estimates to well over $100,000 per bed in recent large project...
Feb 2, 2026
What was the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and its amnesty provisions?
was that combined legalization for long‑term undocumented residents with new aimed at curbing future illegal immigration; roughly 2.7–3 million people ultimately gained legal status through its while ...
Jan 29, 2026
What primary documents would conclusively prove a Member of Congress’s naturalization and how are those records accessed?
The single most direct primary document proving a Member of was naturalized is the or Certificate of Citizenship issued by a court or the /; complementary primary records that corroborate that certifi...
Jan 17, 2026
How have federal courts distinguished between consensual encounters and detentions in immigration-stop cases since INS v. Delgado?
Federal courts have treated INS v. Delgado as a pivot point: the Supreme Court held that workplace questioning by immigration agents was, on the facts, a “classic consensual encounter” and not a Fourt...
Jan 14, 2026
How has ICE's role in anti-smuggling evolved since 2003?
Since its creation in 2003, ICE inherited and fused investigative customs work with interior immigration enforcement, turning anti-smuggling into a core but contested part of a dual mission: Homeland ...
Jan 8, 2026
What Supreme Court cases define ICE powers at roadside encounters?
Three strands of Supreme Court precedent most directly shape ICE’s power at roadside or street encounters: immigration-specific limits on remedies and evidence anchored in INS v. Lopez‑Mendoza , the C...
Oct 10, 2025
What are the procedures for verifying ICE agent identities?
Federal sources and news analyses show for members of the public to verify that someone is an ICE or immigration enforcement agent; reporting highlights gaps, confusion, and scam risks that advocates ...
Oct 7, 2025
What was the average annual deportation rate during Bill Clinton's presidency?
Available materials in the provided dataset do not supply a direct, authoritative figure for the during President Bill Clinton’s 1993–2001 tenure. The clearest historical datapoint in the set is a 199...
Oct 5, 2025
What were the key provisions of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act under President Ronald Reagan?
None of the supplied articles or analyses address the or its provisions; the materials focus on contemporary immigration enforcement, visa fees, and citizenship changes, so they cannot verify claims a...