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Available reporting shows multiple, documented incidents in 2025 where federal immigration agents detained people later identified as U.S. citizens — including high-profile cases in Minneapolis and Ch...
ICE booking and detention data show a large majority of people in ICE custody during late 2025 had no prior criminal conviction—multiple analyses put the share without convictions at roughly 70–74% (f...
Yes — U.S. authorities have carried out large numbers of removals in 2024–2025: government and research counts put removals/deportations in the hundreds of thousands (ICE/MPI estimate ~340,000 for FY2...
ICE reported 277,686 arrests for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, an average of about 310 arrests per day according to ICE-published figures cited by Newsweek . Independent trackers and news analyses show a mar...
Available reporting identifies multiple Republican officeholders and political figures who faced criminal charges for sex-related crimes during 2020–2025, including a South Carolina state representati...
Recent public analyses and ICE snapshots place the share of people in ICE custody who have convictions for violent crimes at roughly 5–7 percent, with several trackers finding “less than 5%” by late 2...
As of the incoming 119th Congress (Jan. 2025–Jan. 2027), available reporting identifies four Muslim members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Ilhan Omar (Minnesota’s 5th), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan’...
As of 2025, ten states have not adopted the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, leaving roughly 1.4–1.6 million people in the “coverage gap” who are ineligible for both Medicaid and marketplace ...
Available reporting does not provide a definitive, up‑to‑date count that answers “which party has had more politicians convicted of sex crimes.” National counts typically track accusations or miscondu...
Available reporting shows a wide range of ways to count “ICE arrests.” Multiple data analyses find that a majority of people booked into ICE custody in 2025 had no violent convictions — one analysis s...
Available reporting does not provide a single, up-to-date tally that cleanly counts “how many Democrats versus how many Republicans have been charged with sexual misconduct” across all levels of U.S. ...
Available mid‑2025 reporting shows serious violent crimes declined in many U.S. cities: homicides were down about 14–21% in the first half of 2025 compared with earlier baselines in multiple analyses,...
Publicly available reporting and datasets from late 2025–early 2026 show a large and growing share of people arrested and detained by ICE had no U.S. criminal conviction or only minor offenses, with m...
Recent public reporting and analyses converge on the conclusion that fewer than one-third of people currently held in ICE detention have criminal convictions: independent analyses put the share of con...
Available reporting shows disagreement about how many people deported under Trump II had felony or other criminal convictions. News outlets and researchers report that a large share of recent ICE deta...
Reporting from national outlets and state-focused investigations shows numerous sexual‑misconduct allegations involving politicians of both parties during the 2024 election cycle, with many accusation...
Research shows sanctuary policies tend to reduce how often local jails honor ICE detainer requests and are associated with fewer deportations, while most empirical studies find no measurable increase ...
No single authoritative list in the provided reporting labels particular U.S. states as uniformly “soft on felony crimes”; instead, coverage highlights shifting policies at both federal and state leve...
Since 2023, a patchwork of state actions—ranging from new statutes to administrative rules and contract terminations—has produced targeted limits on automated license‑plate readers (ALPRs) and, in som...
Short-term effects of mass deportations on housing are mixed but the preponderance of recent studies and reporting finds deportations would not lower prices overall and are more likely to raise them b...