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The violation of students' constitutional rights during the Kent State shootings.
Texas is a focal point for ICE enforcement: available reporting shows the state accounts for a disproportionately large share of recent arrests and detention capacity, a reality tied to explicit state...
Federal immigration officers have statutory authority to arrest, detain and remove noncitizens and to use force under and guidelines, but those powers are not unlimited; courts, civil-rights advocates...
American citizens retain constitutional protections during encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): the right to remain silent, protections against unreasonable searches and seizures...
and have publicly offered multiple, sometimes inconsistent arrest tallies tied to : agency statements highlight roughly 3,000 arrests during a recent surge and claim more than 10,000 total arrests in ...
The criminal prosecution of eight Ohio National Guardsmen for the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings ended in acquittal when U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti ordered acquittals in November 1974, f...
When ICE wrongfully detains a person who is actually a U.S. citizen and disputes their documentation, the immediate remedies are administrative (assert citizenship, present documents, insist on counse...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has no statutory authority to remove or deport U.S. citizens and its official policy asserts it does not arrest or detain citizens for immigration violations,...
U.S. citizens are sometimes swept up in ICE and CBP operations through a mix of operational practices—detainers, “at‑large” arrests, appearance‑based profiling, and mistaken records—that lead to tempo...
The Guardsmen’s defenses in the legal fallout from the May 4, 1970 centered on claims of self-defense — including assertions that they had been fired upon by a sniper — and on procedural and evidentia...
policy requires officers to assess potential U.S. citizenship when they encounter someone, and federal guidance lists indicia and probative evidence officers should use to confirm status ; however, st...
arrests or detains someone after asking for ID, immediate legal steps include asserting the right to remain silent, asking whether one is being detained or free to go, requesting an attorney and conta...
Documented wrongful detentions and, in some analyses, deportations of U.S. citizens by immigration authorities have occurred and prompted lawsuits, congressional letters, and government reports; remed...