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Detentions of U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers during enforcement operations.
Independent watchdog reporting does not offer a single, authoritative tally of ICE use‑of‑force incidents since 2024; available investigative outlets and nonprofits have documented a pattern of repeat...
Contemporary reporting suggests anti‑immigration‑enforcement protests since 2025 have featured more frequent, violent clashes with federal agents than the demonstrations that mobilized against deporta...
The principal Supreme Court decision that governs pretextual traffic stops is Whren v. United States, which holds that an officer’s subjective motivation is irrelevant so long as there is an objective...
Multiple recent reports document instances where very young children — including citizens and one child with cancer — were removed from U.S. communities alongside their foreign‑born mothers or fathers...
—there is no universal legal requirement that law enforcement officers must handcuff every arrestee; instead law and policy converge on a standard of discretion and "objective reasonableness," with ma...
Yes — in practice have detained German citizens at ports of entry and held them in custody without a separate judicial arrest warrant; reporting shows multiple recent cases where Germans were taken in...
A substantial and growing body of empirical research finds that are not a disproportionate source of violent crime and in many studies have lower violent-offending and arrest rates than ; nevertheless...
The Biden administration shifted DHS enforcement from broad, categorical removal toward narrower, threat-focused priorities and greater use of prosecutorial discretion, formalized in January–September...