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The process of identifying, arresting, detaining, and removing noncitizens who have violated immigration law.
Federal civil immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rests on a handful of statutory authorities in the Immigration and Nationality Act and related provisions: most ce...
Two competing narratives exist about what happened to five‑year‑old when federal agents detained him on Jan. 20: U.S. immigration officials say the boy was abandoned in the driveway or vehicle when hi...
"Ice numbers" is a shorthand that collapses two very different subjects: contact and reporting numbers for and the widely used emergency contact convention for phones; both are in public circulation a...
The main arguments that benefit ) center on and public-safety mandates, legal authority to enforce hundreds of statutes, and executive-branch backing to prioritize and rescale interior enforcement — c...
The and framed the using expansive, operational language—primarily labeling new hires as “officers and agents” tasked with deportation, arrests, investigations and removals—while occasional ICE materi...
Short answer: possibly, but not automatically — racial profiling can be investigated by , and some avenues have already been used (lawsuits and internal review), yet no broad, guaranteed non‑partisan ...
’s FY2024 enforcement reporting says Enforcement and Removal Operations () made 113,431 administrative arrests and that 81,312 of those arrests (71.7%) were of noncitizens with criminal convictions or...
policy formally permits case-by-case custody decisions that consider humanitarian factors — including serious medical needs and caregiving responsibilities — and the agency’s public guidance and repor...
Immigration officers operate “outside of the border” because federal law authorizes domestic enforcement of immigration statutes, agencies have missions that extend beyond ports of entry, and the Depa...