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The Coast Guard may lawfully use force, including potentially lethal force, under domestic statutes that authorize maritime drug interdiction and the Service’s Surface Use of Force policy, but that au...
Whether Donald Trump will “be made to answer for his bad deeds” depends on multiple, ongoing legal and political processes: criminal cases from previous terms are not mentioned in the provided sources...
ICE agents have been documented wearing masks during operations, drawing scrutiny for both officer safety and public accountability. Multiple reports show the practice occurs and is defended by ICE as...
Republican senators Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Katie Britt introduced S.304 in the Senate; Rep. Brian Babin introduced the companion H.R.569 in the House with multiple GOP co‑sponsors including Rep....
’s policy of officers—documented under the Trump-era surge in visible enforcement and continuing into later enforcement cycles—has no direct, peer-reviewed causal study in the provided reporting linki...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that agents routinely wore identity‑concealing masks during the administration; contemporary coverage and later interviews suggest the practice i...
Presidents have long been accused of turning the unique powers of the chief executive toward partisan, personal, or extra-legal ends; documented examples range from cover-ups to contested uses of pard...
The has been cited repeatedly in recent reporting and institutional analyses as a vector for potential abuse when used to deploy military forces domestically, to advance personal or political aims, or...
Masked ICE operations became a prominent feature of public reporting during the Trump years and surged again under the Trump 2025 administration, with multiple rights groups, news outlets, and legal o...
Yes — U.S. presidents have intervened to spare or relieve military personnel accused or convicted of battlefield offenses, but the most direct, full pardons of service members found by military juries...
A suite of diplomatic alternatives to sanctions exists—multilateral pressure through treaty bodies, targeted legal and bureaucratic remedies, negotiated confidence‑building measures, and strategic pub...
President Trump and his administration have announced sweeping steps to sharply curtail both legal and humanitarian immigration, including a vow to “permanently pause” migration from broad groups of c...
Current U.S. law generally grants citizenship at birth to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil under the Fourteenth Amendment, with narrow historical exceptions; courts and legal organizations have said ...
The U.S. military has conducted repeated strikes on small vessels it says were narcotics-running or operated by the Tren de Aragua gang, killing dozens since September 2025; Pentagon figures and press...
Multiple Trump directives in 2025 — including an executive order seeking to narrow the legal understanding of sex for federal documents, an order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, a suite of imm...
President Trump’s second-term actions and proposals have emphasized sharp limits on both illegal and legal immigration: his administration has ordered stronger enforcement, curtailed humanitarian prog...
The phrase “ICE masks” aggregates three distinct claims: that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wear masks during operations for privacy and safety; that criminals have impersonated ICE using...