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An authoritative, year-by-year tally of people “killed by ICE” beginning in 2005 cannot be produced from the set of documents provided because neither a single consolidated table of annual deaths sinc...
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...
Available government and investigative data show that a large share of people ICE has arrested or detained under the second Trump administration had no criminal convictions — often reported between ab...
“Deportation” in public DHS and ICE reporting is not a single, simple tally but a family of overlapping categories — removals (also called deportations), returns/voluntary returns, expulsions/repatria...
Between 2020 and December 2025, U.S. removals and expulsions moved through three distinct phases—near‑shutdown of regular deportation channels during the pandemic and Title 42 expulsions (2020–2022), ...
For annual ICE detention datasets, primary public sources include ICE’s own Enforcement & Removal Operations statistics and the OHSS (DHS) Key Homeland Security Measures detentions pages; independent ...
ICE removals in 2025 showed a marked shift in scale and destination mix compared with prior years: reporting and independent trackers describe a large surge in deportation flights and removals since J...
DHS’s notion of “self‑deportation” centers on voluntary departures facilitated or incentivized by programs such as the CBP Home app and related Project Homecoming initiatives, and the department repor...
Federal data show the United States granted roughly 54,350 people asylum in 2023 (total asylees, including 22,300 affirmative grants) while asylum applications and backlogs remained far larger—over 1....
Deportations in 2025 show a sharp uptick in overall removals and a contested picture on the share tied to felony convictions: DHS/White House statements claim about 70% of arrests are of people "charg...
The bulk of ICE removals and arrests in fiscal year 2024 were concentrated among nationals of Mexico and northern Central American countries, with Mexico far outpacing other nationalities in ICE stati...
There is no clear, authoritative figure in the provided reporting that isolates how many lawful (legal) immigrants were deported in the past year; federal releases and independent trackers report tota...
Over the past decade the United States has admitted roughly 7.9 million people as new naturalized citizens while the share of the foreign‑born who are naturalized has remained near about one‑half, eve...
Official U.S. government counts distinguish “removals” (ordered deportations) from “returns” (expulsions or departures not based on a removal order); the Department of Homeland Security’s Yearbook and...
Since 2000 U.S. deportation reporting separates "removals" (formal orders) from "returns" or voluntary departures (no formal removal order); DHS/OHSS yearbook tables and briefs define returns as movem...
The original claim requests a "breakdown of 2025 US deportations by country of origin," but the reviewed materials do not supply a country-by-country breakdown for 2025; they offer high-level totals, ...
U.S. government sources distinguish "removals" as formal, ordered expulsions and "returns" as departures not based on removal orders, while "voluntary departures" and "withdrawals" are specific non‑or...
Title 42, invoked March 21, 2020 and terminated May 11, 2023, transformed how U.S. authorities recorded and resolved border encounters by creating a parallel category—“expulsions” under a public‑healt...
ICE’s own and independent analyses show that a majority of people booked into ICE custody are arrested after being identified in local jails and prisons (the so‑called Criminal Alien Program) rather t...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) distinguishes "removals" as departures under an order of removal with legal and administrative consequences, while "returns" are confirmed departures not base...