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Jan 16, 2026
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How did policy decisions during Obama's presidency affect immigrant detention and deportation rates?

Policy choices made under President Obama produced an enforcement regime that sharply increased removals early in his tenure, refocused enforcement priorities toward criminality in later years, expand...

Nov 15, 2025
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Do Africans have smaller brains than Europeans

Multiple historical and modern studies report average differences in cranial capacity or brain volume across broad, socially defined groups—many large compilations put East Asian averages above Europe...

Feb 3, 2026

How did the Morton memos define enforcement tiers and how were they interpreted by field offices?

The memos established a tiered prioritization for that focused resources on national-security, border-security, and serious public-safety threats while encouraging the exercise of in lower-priority ca...

Jan 9, 2026

How do ICE detention and prosecutorial referrals differ for criminal vs civil cases?

Immigration enforcement is formally a civil administrative system while criminal prosecution is a separate federal process, and that split drives how detention and referrals are handled: ICE uses civi...

Dec 12, 2025

What role did prosecutorial discretion and ICE's enforcement priorities memos play in shaping raid aggressiveness?

Prosecutorial discretion and ICE/DHS enforcement-priority memos set formal selection rules and tools that can narrow who agents pursue and how aggressively they act; ICE memos and court guidance have ...