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The process and rules surrounding deportation in the United States, including grounds for removal and available relief.
Undocumented noncitizens on soil are legally entitled to core due process protections—because the Constitution’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect “persons,” not just citizens—but those protecti...
Legally, non-citizens present —including people without authorization—are entitled to constitutional protections, but the form and extent of those protections vary by status and setting; in practice m...
Yes — non‑citizens can be deported without a formal immigration‑court hearing in specific, legally defined ways, most prominently through and related administrative pathways, but for many people the l...
law limits deportation—also called removal—to noncitizens; the statutory framework, federal agencies, and government guidance describe deportation as a process for aliens, not U.S. citizens . In pract...
The legal distinction between for families with pending asylum cases hinges on process and authority: detention is an administrative custody decision ICE can use while proceedings or screenings are pe...
U.S. government sources distinguish "removals" as formal, ordered expulsions and "returns" as departures not based on removal orders, while "voluntary departures" and "withdrawals" are specific non‑or...
Interior deportations are removals of noncitizens arrested or processed inside —predominantly handled by ICE—while border deportations are returns or removals of people encountered at or near the U.S....
No reliable count can be produced from the provided reporting of “how many individual federal court orders were issued in 2024 specifically requiring the return of deported persons” because none of th...