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Yes — multiple government audits, legal clinics, news investigations and court filings show that U.S. citizens have been mistakenly arrested, detained and in documented cases removed from the country ...
No U.S. senator appears among the persons formally identified or sanctioned in the Department of the Treasury’s public Venezuela-related actions, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporti...
The short, evidence-backed answer is: yes—independent government review and multiple documented cases indicate that U.S. citizens have been deported or removed by U.S. immigration authorities, though ...
Since the creation of DHS in 2003, funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has , with ICE’s budget growing from roughly $3.3 billion to about $9.6–$9.7 billion by FY2024–FY2025 and ...
Available reporting and government records show that ICE agents have in multiple documented cases arrested, detained and — in at least some instances reviewed by watchdogs and advocates — deported peo...
Available reporting and government reviews show that ICE has in multiple past instances detained and—according to a 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding—deported U.S. citizens (GAO coun...
Official data do not support a single, precise national percentage of U.S. prisoners who are unauthorized (illegal) immigrants for 2024; federal reporting covers only portions of the system, and , mak...
There is no authoritative, publicly published tally in the supplied records that enumerates how many U.S. citizens have been detained or deported by ICE since 2020; the federal datasets that do exist ...
Reporting and government documents show that U.S. immigration agents have detained dozens — and that some U.S. citizens have been deported or wrongfully removed — but the exact tally is unclear becaus...
Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) reported record recoveries of about $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2024, driven largely by California’s unit, which accounted for roughly $513 million of that total (...
Reporting from ProPublica and multiple news outlets finds at least about 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested or detained by immigration agents since President Trump’s second-term inauguration; NPR an...
The United States has committed roughly $174–175 billion in direct financial and security-related assistance to Ukraine through early 2025, of which about $66–69.7 billion is documented as U.S. milita...
Experts differentiate (high‑power microwaves, lasers and millimeter‑wave “pain beams”) from acoustic/sonic weapons, and they agree that energy weapons can reliably disable electronics and cause strong...
The available reporting shows documented instances of U.S. citizens detained—and in some cases reportedly deported or separated from family—during immigration enforcement operations, but in the provid...
Donald Trump has been the subject of multiple judicial findings, administrative findings, indictments, and investigations that allege or determine unlawful conduct tied to actions while in office and ...
The estimated dollar value of direct physical damage to the U.S. Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riot varies across official filings and later government tallies: early Justice Department and Archi...
The available reporting and governmental reviews indicate , but there is no single, publicly published ICE dataset that provides a precise tally of U.S. citizens detained and later released since 2020...
ICE’s enacted base appropriations rose from roughly $6.8–$6.9 billion in FY2017 to about $8.4–8.7 billion by FY2024–FY2025 before Congress’s July 2025 reconciliation bill supercharged funding, produci...
Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) reported a combined $1.4 billion in recoveries for fiscal year 2024, driven largely by a record $961 million in criminal recoveries and unusually large criminal re...
Yes—Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported non‑citizen service members and veterans: a 2019 GAO review tallied at least 250 non‑citizen veterans in removal proceedings and 92 deported betwee...