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Nonprofit organizations and coalitions provide hotlines, phone funds, pro bono and low‑cost legal representation, detention monitoring and post‑release services to people in ICE custody; examples incl...
No credible source in the provided reporting documents an event described as an “ against illegals” in which a specific number of people were shot; reporting instead documents a pattern of high-volume...
The claim that “ created the first detention centers for children in ” is inaccurate: detention of immigrant children and families predates the Obama presidency, but the Obama administration significa...
Yes — the Obama administration expanded and used family detention to hold asylum-seeking mothers and children beginning especially in 2014, operating and opening large family residential centers while...
You have constitutional protections but enforcement on the ground is uneven: ICE agents may approach and briefly question people in public without a warrant, and courts recently allowed broader “brief...
and shifts in enforcement were central levers in effort to reshape who entered and how, with parole creating limited legal channels for certain nationalities while an expanded or retained Title 42 ser...
launched a series of detention-reform initiatives beginning in 2009 that centralized oversight inside , created new inspection and death‑review processes, and established to inspect facilities and inv...
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 ...
Federal statutes, agency directives and constitutional protections form the spine of legal safeguards for children during ICE actions: the Homeland Security Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection ...
— federal immigration agents under the umbrella of did shoot people during the Obama years, and deaths in ICE custody were documented under his administration, though the record is incomplete and cont...
A review of the reporting provided shows that while dozens of people died in custody during the Obama administration, the sources do not document any instance in which shot and killed an American citi...
Federal immigration authorities, notably and related units, are the subject of vigorous calls for following deadly and controversial enforcement actions in and elsewhere, and watchdogs have documented...
Federal courts across multiple jurisdictions weighed in during 2025 on legal disputes tied to , and several of those decisions directly implicated citizens or the treatment of people detained alongsid...
and independent audits from repeatedly flagged two intertwined failings: persistent substandard medical and mental-health care that likely contributed directly to multiple deaths, and a fragmented, in...
Federal courts and a barrage of lawsuits repeatedly slowed, blocked, or narrowed the drive to restrict —striking down several signature rules and orders while leaving other provisions intact or subjec...
The public record does not support a single, definitive count of all people who have died while ever in custody because agencies, advocacy groups and reporters use different definitions and datasets; ...
The bona fide determination () is a preliminary review that checks whether a pending U‑visa petition appears filed in good faith, includes required initial evidence, and raises no national‑security or...
The most direct, verifiable figure in the supplied reporting is that while in custody over the course of — a tally given by multiple sources summarizing deaths in detention during those years . Availa...
The sources supplied do not provide a definitive count of “shootings by ” during ’s presidency; investigative reporting indicates records exist and have been obtained for portions of recent years, but...
A straightforward reading of the available reporting shows that was involved in lethal incidents and deaths during , and investigative reporters have obtained agency shooting logs that include the end...