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The most widely cited tally for deaths in custody during the presidency is , a figure reported by a coalition report titled and repeated in media and advocacy accounts . That number has become a short...
Yes — immigration agents under ICE and related DHS components fired their weapons and were involved in shootings during the Obama years, but publicly available reporting does not provide a single, ver...
Federal and local reporting show that a claim circulated by — that an /HSI agent’s finger was “bit off” during unrest in — exists and was amplified by several outlets, but major independent reporting ...
There is clear, repeated reporting that multiple federal prosecutors and senior Justice Department civil‑rights officials resigned in protest over how the DOJ handled the ICE shooting in Minneapolis ....
Barack Obama did present a 2015 Presidential Rank Award to Thomas D. Homan — commonly referred to in press as Tom Homan — when Homan, then ICE’s Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Remova...
The best-supported count in the reporting provided is that while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during the , a figure reported by a coalition report based on documents and summar...
Available reporting does not document that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "killed" detainees as a matter of policy; instead, multiple investigations and civil-society reports count people w...
During the Clinton years ICE’s predecessor systems and enforcement tools produced some of the highest deportation counts in modern history, and during the Obama administration ICE shifted toward “prio...
The Department of Homeland Security’s recruitment package for new Immigration and Customs Enforcement hires advertises “up to $50,000” in signing bonuses, and reporting from Fortune explicitly states ...
Photographs and contemporaneous reporting show Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem standing at a One World Trade Center podium bearing the words “ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS” during a Jan. 8, 2026 p...
Data and reporting show that Obama-era ICE removals were higher in raw counts across his two terms, with more than 3.1 million deportations logged during 2009–2016 . But multiple analyses and contempo...
Reporting is conflicted: federal authorities say “approached” agents with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and distributed a photo of a firearm, while multiple bystander videos and at least one independen...
Yes — multiple contemporaneous reports and official notices show that received a 2015 Presidential Rank Award while serving as ’s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, a...
Multiple media outlets report that a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has provided a dataset to the activist site “ICE List” that allegedly contains sensitive personal details for roughly...
The most defensible, widely reported figure for deaths in custody during the first year of ’s second term is — the highest total in more than two decades, according to multiple news organizations trac...
The short answer: multiple reputable reports and advocacy groups have reported that 56 people died while in custody during , but that number is not a single, uncontested official toll — it reflects a ...
The best available reporting in the provided sources counts while in custody during the , a figure cited in the /Detention Watch Network/National Immigrant Justice Center report "Fatal Neglect" (and s...
By the most widely cited counts through 2025, ’s two terms oversaw more total (removals plus ) than ’s presidencies to date, though the gap narrows or reverses depending on which categories—formal rem...
U.S. citizens are not legally required to carry proof of citizenship, and they retain constitutional protections — including the right to remain silent and protection from unreasonable seizure — when ...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Donald J. Trump was arrested today; the news items instead document arrests of other figures and policy moves by the Trump adminis...