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President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly announced that he does not keep the official presidential salary and instead donates it to federal causes or agencies, often taking a nominal $1 paycheck, a pr...
ICE is a federal law‑enforcement component of the Department of Homeland Security with broad civil‑and‑criminal immigration authorities: it conducts arrests and removals, runs detention facilities, an...
There are about 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens residing in the United States as of 2024, which Congress Research Service reports as “approximately 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens” and that ...
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) was enacted in 1986 as part of broader congressional action on narcotics (the Anti‑Drug Abuse Act / Drug Enforcement Act packages) and is codified at 46 U...
U.S. federal law defines “alien” simply as “any person not a citizen or national of the United States,” a statutory definition found in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and codified in Title ...
U.S. law does not use a single plain‑English definition for “illegal immigrant”; federal statutes define categories of alien presence and conduct—such as unlawful entry, unauthorized presence, and vis...
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) creates federal criminal jurisdiction over drug trafficking on “vessels” on the high seas and other vessels “subject to the jurisdiction of the United Sta...
Federal law texts and online repositories show how to find and read statutes, but the provided sources do not identify any specific federal criminal statute that plainly criminalizes merely "viewing" ...
The U.S. Code defines "domestic terrorism" as activities that involve acts dangerous to human life, violate criminal law, appear intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence gov...
Current U.S. Senators do not receive a standalone ; the $96 figure appears in historical GSA lodging benchmarks and not as a meals-only Senatorary allowance. Congress delegates per diem ceilings for S...
The materials you provided do not contain substantive descriptions of how U.S. presidents may accept gifts; the documents are titled after federal ethics regulations but the supplied analyses report n...
Employers who hire unauthorized workers or pay employees “off the books” can face civil fines under immigration law up to several thousand dollars per worker and higher for repeat violations, plus cri...
The authority to order and direct U.S. military forces flows from the President as Commander‑in‑Chief through the Secretary of Defense to combatant commanders; the Joint Chiefs of Staff are senior adv...
If a U.S. citizen is found to have lost citizenship, consequences vary: naturalized citizens can be denaturalized in civil or criminal proceedings and potentially deported if citizenship is revoked . ...
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) defines “alien” in section 101(a) as “any person not a citizen or national of the United States,” a plain statutory definition repeated across official codifi...
Federal law defines child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as any visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct and makes producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing such material...
Federal reporting and legal-aid guidance consistently state that adults with lawful immigration status are required by federal law to carry their immigration documents and that ICE may ask to see such...
Retirees can be ordered back to active duty under federal law and service regulations, but eligibility depends on category (regular-component retiree vs. reserve/Fleet Reserve/IRR), statutory authorit...
Donald Trump’s official U.S. presidential base salary is $400,000 per year, a figure set by federal law and unchanged since 2001 . Multiple outlets note he has publicly said he will take a symbolic $1...
Federal law makes it a crime to produce, distribute, receive, transport, advertise, access with intent to view, and possess child sexual abuse material (CSAM), primarily through statutes codified in T...