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Detention expansion

The topic is about the record detention expansion under the current administration that contributes to the wrongful deportation of U.S. citizens.

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Jan 24, 2026
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How much is trump costing the USA taxpayer daily for ICE and all these ships.

The new “big, beautiful bill” funnels roughly in additional funds for immigration enforcement through September 2029—raising the headline taxpayer burden to about $116 million per day when spread even...

Jan 27, 2026
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How many ICE detainee deaths occurred under the Biden administration and how do they compare?

Official tallies and independent trackers show that roughly two dozen people died in custody over the bulk of , while —about 30–32 deaths—making that single year larger than the deaths recorded across...

Jan 30, 2026
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How has ICE actually spent the $75 billion from the One Big Beautiful Bill through 2025–2026?

The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) authorized roughly in additional funding for to be available through Sept. 30, 2029, but reporting shows that through fiscal years 2025–2026 most of that money remai...

Jan 14, 2026

What specific age and fitness requirements are listed on current ICE vacancies on USAJOBS?

Current ICE vacancy announcements on USAJOBS commonly require medical screening, drug testing, and a pre-employment physical fitness test for frontline law‑enforcement roles, while age restrictions ha...

Jan 16, 2026

How many detained by ICE are legal immigrants?

As of late 2025 and early January 2026, ICE was holding roughly 69,000–70,000 people in custody, a historic high driven largely by the agency’s expanded interior arrests and detention expansion . Avai...

Jan 18, 2026

What key immigration laws has Congress passed affecting ICE?

Congress has shaped ICE primarily through appropriations and targeted statutes: major funding packages and the “One Big Beautiful Bill” dramatically expanded ICE’s budget and detention capacity, while...

Feb 5, 2026

How does ICE prioritize deportations for non-criminal immigrants?

says enforcement is supposed to be targeted at threats to national security and public safety and constrained by agency priorities, funding and capacity , but recent data and multiple independent anal...

Feb 4, 2026

Are legal citizens being deported

Documented instances and court findings show that citizens have been mistakenly detained and in some cases deported in recent years, and reporting from multiple outlets and organizations ties a spike ...

Feb 4, 2026

Which criminals have been recently deported by ICE?

Recent public records and press releases show has deported a mix of convicted violent offenders and lower‑level or non‑convicted migrants: the has foregrounded named “worst of the worst” cases—murdere...

Feb 4, 2026

ICE Hold Rooms

are small processing spaces where people arrested by are kept after arrest and—according to multiple investigations and court filings—are increasingly used for days or weeks despite a prior 12‑hour po...

Jan 24, 2026

We’re any US citizens eported

Yes — multiple reputable reports say citizens have been mistakenly detained and in some instances deported amid the larger mass‑deportation campaign of the ’s second term, and those incidents have bec...

Jan 20, 2026

What percentage of ICE’s post‑H.R.1 bed increases were paid under guaranteed‑minimum clauses versus new fixed‑price contracts?

The reporting available documents how H.R.1 massively increases detention funding and gives ICE multi‑billion dollar line items for detention expansion, and several advocacy groups and policy shops br...