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No reliable, authoritative tally exists in the public record that counts “ in the U.S. from 2000” because the federal government does not maintain a comprehensive, national dataset linking immigration...
Contemporary reporting and compiled trackers show a involving federal immigration agents since January 2025, with multiple fatal incidents that have driven national protests and political debate; pres...
Yes: within the and its agents exercise law‑enforcement authorities—yet it is not the same as local police in mission, jurisdiction, oversight, or routine public functions, and those differences shape...
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 ...
The available documents show that a Department of Homeland Security product listing identifies a as security products associated with DHS programs, which suggests those weapon types are among the fire...
The narrative of drug bust that involved underground tunnels, large quantities of drugs and 96 arrests is not supported by the reporting provided: the only subterranean narcotics tunnel described in t...
The question as posed is ambiguous — it could mean “ have been committed by people who are undocumented” or “how many undocumented people have themselves been killed” — and there is no single, reliabl...
Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ICE detained two people at the Target in Richfield, Minnesota on January 8, an event captured on video and reported by multiple outlets . Multipl...
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 ...
Construction of the is active but partial: federal agencies report a mix of completed legacy barriers, new “” contracts and ongoing construction in multiple sectors, while states and contractors also ...
between and National Guard is highly unlikely to produce a clear battlefield-style “victor”; instead, any clash would most likely be a political and legal standoff shaped by jurisdiction, rules of eng...
Answer depends on the question’s definition: if the inquiry targets deaths of people while in U.S. federal immigration custody during , reporting based on government records and later FOIA-based inves...
As of late 2025 and early 2026 independent analyses of point-in-time detention counts show that a substantial majority of people in ICE custody had no criminal conviction on record—most sources put th...
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...
By CBP’s public accounting, roughly 400 miles of “new” border wall system had been completed during 2025, while additional projects and contract awards during the year put hundreds more miles into con...
A precise, verifiable count of how many by people without lawful immigration status over the past four years is not available in the reporting provided; the sources include academic reviews, advocacy ...
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...
Since 2024 the largest enforcement deployments reported in U.S. cities have centered on the Twin Cities (–) and , with major activity also documented in and wide state-level surges in , and ; reportin...
DHS and independent analysts show wide variation by year and agency: ICE reported about 142,580 ICE removals in FY2023 and Reuters/ICE reported roughly 271,000 total deportations in FY2024, while Migr...
The most recent authoritative announcements from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) show active, funded expansion of a federally directed “Smart Wal...