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The protection of civil liberties, including the right to due process, in the context of ICE detentions.
Yes — ICE agents can arrest or temporarily detain U.S. citizens in limited circumstances, most commonly when the citizen is suspected of committing a crime such as obstructing or interfering with an i...
A broad constellation of national and local activist organizations — including Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, 50501 and allied gro...
Recent reporting and freedom-of-information returns show police activity under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 has surged to roughly 1...
Yes — federal law and ICE policy allow agents to detain people who obstruct or interfere with immigration enforcement, and those detentions can be criminal arrests when the conduct amounts to a federa...
Law enforcement typically does not arrest someone “because of an IP address” alone; instead, IP data is used as an investigative lead that, after legal process and corroboration, can produce warrants,...
The most politically explosive ICE enforcement actions during 2015–2016 were large residential and community “fugitive” operations — notably January 2016 roundups that took more than 120 Central Ameri...
The Supreme Court’s martial law decisions form a sparse, old, and sometimes contradictory patchwork: the Court has repeatedly ruled that military rule is permissible only in narrow circumstances, has ...
The October 18, 2025 “No Kings” demonstrations amplified local policy debates about civil liberties, public order, and political accountability while reshaping electoral campaign strategies—especially...
Yes — U.S. citizens are being wrongfully detained and, in multiple documented instances, deported; courts, advocacy groups and journalists have identified dozens of cases where citizenship was ignored...
When National Guard units operate in Title 32 “hybrid” status, the prevailing legal interpretation is that they remain under state control and therefore are not subject to the Posse Comitatus Act’s ba...
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains someone who is a U.S. citizen, the immediate legal remedies are to assert citizenship, invoke the right to counsel and silence, and demand prompt...
ICE field personnel rely on a mix of on-scene document checks, database queries, and investigative steps guided by internal policy to assess whether someone might be a U.S. citizen, but the agency’s o...
DHS and ICE have repeatedly framed enforcement activity using statistics and dataset categories—publishing arrest counts, promoting “high-value” data releases, and packaging program inventories—to cre...
ICE decides whom to arrest through a mix of agency-generated investigative work, data and intelligence-driven leads, and statutory authorities that allow administrative arrests without a judicial warr...
Federal law now contains a narrowly tailored requirement that many federal military and civilian personnel involved in responses to “civil disturbances” display visible identifying information, a chan...
U.S. citizens are not subject to immigration enforcement in the way non‑citizens are: by statute ICE’s mission and arrest/detention authority target people believed to be unlawfully present, and ICE c...
ICE and its investigative components can and do ask people to prove their immigration status and may detain individuals briefly while verifying identity and citizenship claims, but federal policy and ...
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) asks for proof of citizenship, U.S. citizens are not legally required to carry proof of citizenship, but presenting an ID can sometimes speed resolution ...
Yes — a U.S. passport or passport card is widely treated by legal aid groups and ICE guidance as one of the primary documents that can establish U.S. citizenship during an ICE encounter, and presentin...