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The process of deportation and reentry into the United States, including the differences between citizens and non-citizens, and the role of the courts and executive branch in remedying wrongful removals.
The short, evidence-backed answer is: yes—independent government review and multiple documented cases indicate that U.S. citizens have been deported or removed by U.S. immigration authorities, though ...
Removals are formal orders that carry administrative (and potentially criminal) penalties for future reentry, while returns are movements of noncitizens out of the that are not based on an order of re...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports "criminal aliens" as individuals who have been convicted of one or more crimes, whether those convictions occurred in the United States or abroad, and...
A four-year-old U.S. citizen with advanced cancer was deported from the United States to Honduras alongside his undocumented mother during an early‑morning ICE removal operation, and advocates say the...
“Returns” and “removals” are distinct legal categories in U.S. immigration practice: returns generally describe expedited or voluntary departures that do not produce a formal removal order, whereas re...
DHS and ICE distinguish "removals" as compelled departures under immigration law from "returns" or "voluntary returns," which are administrative or non‑judicial dispositions that do not carry the same...