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The policies and procedures surrounding the detention and removal of individuals.
’s formal civil immigration authority does not extend to detaining U.S. citizens for immigration violations—agency policy and multiple legal guides state that ICE “cannot assert its to arrest and/or d...
Yes — ICE is funded by taxpayer dollars appropriated by Congress: its budgets and large new reconciliation appropriations are federal spending paid from public funds, and recent legislation massively ...
agents face a mix of statutory duties, organizational performance pressures, explicit financial and career incentives, and political and industry-driven incentives that together shape why and how arre...
NGO trackers such as , , and civil‑rights groups including the routinely produce counts and breakdowns of immigration detention that differ from ’s published statistics because they use different snap...
Federal law and interagency policy create a multi-step framework for conducts arrests: unaccompanied children are, by statute, supposed to be transferred to ’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) und...
The decision to detain a noncitizen or place them in an Alternatives to Detention () program is governed by statutory detention authority and agency policy, but in practice hinges on eligibility rules...
Immigration enforcement is formally a civil administrative system while criminal prosecution is a separate federal process, and that split drives how detention and referrals are handled: ICE uses civi...