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The impact of policy changes, enforcement operations, and seasonal migration patterns on border security and the count of undocumented immigrants.
are counted in because the Census counts all residents regardless of immigration status () and therefore they do affect headline population totals used for and many statistics . That effect is real bu...
’s immigration agenda in the 1990s—culminating in the 1994 Crime Bill initiatives and the —laid structural and political groundwork that expanded enforcement tools, broadened deportable offenses, and ...
The record compiled by human-rights groups, congressional investigators and major reporting shows that the -era “zero tolerance” family separation policy produced thousands of separations and that a n...
Different administrations since 2000 have shifted enforcement of criminal immigration statutes through changing priorities, staffing and resources, use of prosecutorial discretion, and executive actio...
Independent advocacy groups and watchdogs tallied dozens of immigration enforcement during the years, but the totals depend on what is counted: a prominent FOIA‑based analysis found 56 people died in ...
Independent analyses reach different but complementary conclusions: ’s deep dive argues did not reduce and in many metrics increased arrests, detentions, and removals , while documents a system under ...
The was a sharp rise in arrivals—especially and families—from the countries of , and to the southern border, overwhelming U.S. border and child-welfare systems . The surge was driven by a mix of extre...
is still admitting immigrants, but admission channels are narrower and more conditional than before: many visa categories continue to operate while broad new proclamations and agency actions have susp...
Federal appellate courts—most prominently the Ninth and the Seventh Circuits—have in recent years reversed or curtailed district-court orders attacking ICE detainer practices, doing so on a mix of pro...
The public debate often seeks a single tally of "how many illegals entered the US under Biden," but the federal reporting and expert estimates do not support a single, definitive figure; Border Patrol...
Frederick (Friedrich) Trump arrived in the United States as a teenage emigrant in 1885, settling in New York after disembarking at Castle Garden and quickly entering the workforce as a barber’s appren...