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As of December 12, 2025, the legislative measures discussed as the “Born in America Act” and related birthright-citizenship bills appear in Congress as drafted bills and proposals but sources in the p...
The claim that “illegals receiving benefits reserved for US citizens” is : federal law bars most undocumented immigrants from federal benefits, yet administrative changes, state programs, emergency ex...
There is documented precedent for large-scale, racially and ethnically targeted deportation campaigns in U.S. history — most notably Operation Wetback in 1954, which swept up possibly hundreds of thou...
—centered on Border Act (S.4361) and companion emergency supplemental proposals—combined expanded enforcement authority, expedited with new summary removal tools and tight review limits, substantial f...
Senator Bernie Moreno (R‑Ohio) is the sole Senate sponsor listed for S.3283, the "Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025," and the legislative record and public trackers show no Senate co‑sponsors (Congres...
Congressional bills called the “Born in the USA Act” (S.646/H.R.3368) and related “Birthright Citizenship Act” proposals were introduced in 2025 to block the federal government from implementing Presi...
ICE-held populations hit unprecedented levels in 2025–early 2026, surpassing prior peaks such as August 2019 and reaching daily and snapshot counts that approached the system’s expanded capacity—recor...
Opposition to the Dignity Act of 2025 clusters into three main camps: immigrant-rights advocates who say the bill leaves out a meaningful path to citizenship and imposes fees, conservative hard‑liners...
Congress’s FY2025 reconciliation package and subsequent reporting dramatically increased funding for immigration enforcement, but the precise “total budget for ICE enforcement in FY2025” depends on wh...
Per-deportee cost estimates vary widely across sources: advocacy and research groups place the 2024 average near $14,000 per removal (National Immigration Forum) while study-aggregations cited by Penn...
A complete, year-by-year comparison of ional appropriations for versus the Obama Administration’s budget requests from 2009–2017 is not available in the supplied reporting; the sources document genera...
has attracted a broad, public coalition of business groups, , and some immigrant-advocacy organizations that the bill’s sponsors prominently cite as supporters, with each coalition framing its backing...
are administrative, civil processes distinct from : they are initiated by immigration authorities, use different standards of proof, and generally do not carry the full panoply of criminal procedural ...
Estimates of the fiscal cost of President Trump’s mass-deportation agenda vary widely, but reporting and independent analyses consistently put the price tag in the tens to hundreds of billions of doll...
Estimates in recent reporting place undocumented immigrants’ aggregate “spending power” in the hundreds of billions: the American Immigration Council reported $299 billion in spending power for undocu...
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 One Big Beautiful Bill packaged large, mandatory, mostly lump‑sum staffing and hiring dollars into reconciliation language that both directed specific new personnel spending for immigration and bo...
The $17,121 figure DHS cites as the "average cost to arrest, detain, and remove an undocumented immigrant" is presented by the agency as a single per‑person average but DHS has not published a detaile...
The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025 was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–SC) as S.304 and in the House by Rep. Brian Babin (R–TX) as H.R.569; the official congressional pages list...
The DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) warned that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot reliably monitor the location and immigration court status of many unaccompanied migrant chi...