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Nov 22, 2025
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What are the legal limits of ICE agents during traffic stops?

ICE agents do not have a general statutory power to make traffic stops for routine vehicle or moving violations; they may stop or detain people only when they have the requisite federal grounds—such a...

Jan 16, 2026
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How many ice agents have been hurt or killed in action vs civilians and undocumented immigrants in the last 12 months

Available reporting does not show any verified, new deaths of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents caused by civilians or undocumented immigrants in the past 12 months, while the year...

Nov 30, 2025
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percentage of false arrests by ICE

There is no single, authoritative percentage of “false arrests” by ICE in the available reporting; independent trackers show large shares of people arrested or detained have no criminal conviction (fo...

Jan 27, 2026

How many fatal shootings or uses of lethal force by immigration agents were reported under the Trump administration in 2025–2026?

Reporting on immigration agents during the ’s 2025–2026 enforcement surge is inconsistent but converges on a stark picture: multiple shootings by and other officers were documented (16 to at least 28 ...

Nov 28, 2025

Under the Trump administration what are statistics about ICE's progress in stopping violent criminals and drug dealers from operating in the US?

ICE and DHS data and multiple news analyses show the Trump administration dramatically increased arrests, detentions and removals overall but a large share of those detained had no criminal conviction...

Jan 27, 2026

What ICE contracts were awarded through no-bid processes in 2024–2026 and what are their public records?

Reports, watchdog filings and local coverage identify a series of high-profile awards in 2024–2026 that were issued without full competitive procurements — notably a roughly $29.9 million no‑bid task ...

Jan 29, 2026

How many children have been detained in family facilities each year since 2018 and what are the reliable data sources?

Reliable public counts of children held in family detention facilities since 2018 do not exist as a neat year-by-year series; available data must be stitched together from /ORR custody numbers, / dete...

Jan 28, 2026

How many fatal and nonfatal shootings involving ICE or CBP agents were reported in 2010–2016 in open-source news archives and DOJ reports?

The sources supplied do not contain a consolidated, source-verified tally of involving or agents for the period 2010–2016, so a precise count cannot be produced from this reporting alone . Investigati...

Jan 19, 2026

is a state prosicution on rge table for ICE afenr ross

Yes — a state prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross is legally possible, but it faces substantial evidentiary, procedural and political obstacles that make it uncertain whether Minnesota prosecutors ...

Feb 2, 2026

How many officer-involved shootings by CBP and ICE occurred each year from 2015–2025, and how were they recorded?

Public reporting and independent trackers document a by U.S. immigration agents in 2025, but there is no single authoritative, year-by-year public tally for 2015–2025 that can be reconstructed from th...

Jan 30, 2026

What methodologies have fact‑checkers used to debunk claims about large numbers of deaths caused by undocumented immigrants?

Fact-checkers seeking to debunk claims that “large numbers” of people are killed yearly by undocumented immigrants rely on a set of empirical, source‑checking and contextual methodologies: they search...

Jan 23, 2026

Which recorded interviews or rallies feature Trump's comments on Mexican immigrants and what were the exact quotes?

A set of widely reported, recorded remarks by — spanning his 2015 campaign launch, television interviews, campaign press statements, rallies and addresses — contain repeated characterizations of Mexic...

Jan 15, 2026

What do FOIA-released ICE datasets show about trends in convictions among those deported from 2019–2025?

FOIA-released ICE datasets compiled and published by the Deportation Data Project show that a substantial and growing share of people deported or detained between 2019 and mid‑October 2025 had no crim...

Jan 12, 2026

How do news outlets and trackers define and differentiate shootings by ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents?

News outlets and independent trackers distinguish shootings by ICE, U.S. Border Patrol (part of CBP), and other federal agents primarily by agency attribution, geographic role (interior versus border/...

Jan 9, 2026

Why does ice go to places, and seemingly harass, assault, kill, or arrest what appear to be American citizens

ICE conducts interior enforcement operations to identify, arrest and remove noncitizens whom the agency believes are unlawfully present or pose public-safety risks, but expanded directives, poor data ...

Dec 11, 2025

what role does media coverage play in shaping perception on ICE arrests

Media coverage shapes public perception of ICE arrests by selecting which facts and images reach audiences: national analyses show large shares of people arrested had no criminal records — nearly 75,0...

Nov 30, 2025

Have any of Trump’s pardons been legally challenged or led to investigations?

Several of President Trump’s 2025 pardons have already prompted legal fights, court filings and public investigations — including challenges that argue sweeping language could bar prosecutions for 202...

Nov 19, 2025

How many minors has Ice deported through a border state to juarez in 2025

Available reporting and public data in the provided sources do not give a definitive count of how many minors ICE "deported through a border state to Juárez" in 2025; ICE’s public enforcement statisti...