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Federal law does not create a general obligation for U.S. citizens to carry or show proof of citizenship in public, and ICE (a federal immigration agency) has statutory authority to question, detain o...
ICE’s official posture and federal law make a clear legal line: immigration authorities do not have the civil power to arrest and detain lawful U.S. citizens as part of removal proceedings . Neverthel...
Project 2025 is a sprawling conservative blueprint published and coordinated by the Heritage Foundation that packages policy recommendations, personnel lists, training programs and a playbook intended...
ICE agents have statutory authority to make warrantless arrests for immigration violations and, in limited circumstances, for certain criminal offenses—especially when the offense occurs in the office...
ICE may detain a person in public when officers have statutory authority and either a warrant or probable cause that the individual is removable or has committed a federal offense, but the agency’s po...
Federal immigration law requires many noncitizens to register with the U.S. government and—if they are subject to the carry rule—to carry proof of that registration or their alien-registration documen...
Yes — ICE agents can and have physically detained people who are U.S. citizens when agents believe those people are not citizens, and such detention can be prolonged until citizenship is proved or a c...
and have repeatedly framed as targeting the “worst of the worst,” and their releases list examples of murderers, rapists, pedophiles and gang members arrested during the campaign, but the available re...
The most common probable cause ICE cites to detain someone is that the person is "subject to removal"—frequently grounded in criminal convictions or immigration-related final orders—but in practice th...
#GrabYourWallet began in October 2016 as a Twitter-driven boycott list targeting retailers tied to the Trump family and quickly shifted from hashtag activism to sustained consumer pressure and a publi...
The 287(g) program deputizes state and local law enforcement to perform defined federal immigration functions under written agreements with ICE, using several enforcement “models” (jail, task force/pa...
A short list of Malcolm X’s most famous, frequently reprinted lines captures his evolution from Nation of Islam minister to global human-rights advocate; these include aphorisms about conviction (“A m...
The short answer: in practice some Black people and segments of culture treat "" as a reclaimed, intra-group term distinct in meaning and function from the slur "nigger," but many individuals and inst...
Communities, lawyers and some state officials have mounted a patchwork of responses to the raids that range from criminal and civil investigations to mass organizing, litigation and policy fights — ef...
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE begins detaining someone who has presented a U.S. passport card, the immediate priorities are to assert and document citizenship, avoid statements or sign...
Passengers and witnesses at an ICE car stop should prioritize physical safety, invoke constitutional protections (notably the right to remain silent), avoid consenting to searches, and document the en...
Somali leaders and community organizations have overwhelmingly condemned President Trump’s derogatory remarks as xenophobic and dehumanizing, while mobilizing legal, civic and grassroots responses to ...
Two very different senators named Kennedy appear in the provided reporting, and each has registered notable clashes with colleagues or witnesses: John F. Kennedy’s Senate years included public interro...
Jasmine Crockett appears on multiple recorded platforms — broadcast interviews, podcasts and C-SPAN clips — and several of those outlets provide video and machine- or human-generated transcripts tied ...
Post–Civil War legal thinkers designed the Fourteenth Amendment to curb state power that had protected slavery and racial hierarchy, and some modern legal scholars warn that its expansive reading—espe...