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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Two competing sets of legislation and actions are in play: the Born in the USA Act (H.R.3368 / S.646), introduced to block President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, would bar federal funds from enforci...
Available sources do not provide a single year-by-year count of denaturalizations from 2005 onward; reporting and legal briefs instead give multi-year totals and averages — for example, researchers fo...
U.S. law allows the government to revoke a person's naturalized citizenship if it was “illegally procured” or obtained by “concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation,” and the DOJ ...
Dual nationality itself is not newly criminalized, but recent legislation proposals (Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025) would force citizens to choose one nationality or face automatic loss of U.S. ci...
U.S. law allows the government to strip citizenship only in limited circumstances, primarily through denaturalization of naturalized citizens for fraud, concealment, or certain post‑naturalization con...
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...
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...
The reporting available documents how H.R.1 massively increases detention funding and gives ICE multi‑billion dollar line items for detention expansion, and several advocacy groups and policy shops br...
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...