Your fact-checks will appear here
Classification of expedited removal cases in ICE detainee data
Undocumented immigrants in ICE detention retain core constitutional protections—most notably the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process and access to challenge detention—but those rights are routine...
Yes—constitutional due process protections formally apply to people ICE detains, but multiple recent policies, enforcement practices, and resource gaps have meaningfully narrowed how that right operat...
There is no single, authoritative figure in the supplied reporting that states how many undocumented immigrants "came into the country" during George W. Bush’s two terms (2001–2008); public claims var...
Across the Obama presidency, a very large share of formal removals were carried out through DHS administrative, out‑of‑court processes—primarily expedited removal and reinstatement of prior removal or...
—principally the (IIRAIRA) and companion measures—rewrote removal law by expanding the list of deportable offenses, narrowing relief from removal, and creating faster, more administrative removal proc...
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...
has detained and even processed U.S. citizens in its records across multiple administrations, including during presidencies, but the formal deportation (removal) of a U.S. citizen is illegal under U.S...
Removal, expulsion, and voluntary return/departure are distinct legal mechanisms that result in a noncitizen leaving the United States: "removal" is a formal order of the immigration system typically ...
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...
builds its on transactional records obtained via FOIA and presents categories by conviction status, pending charges, and immigration-only violations using database tools it maintains . analyzes ICE/TR...
Since January 2025, federal courts have produced a mixed but consequential body of rulings on and related detention policies: initially blocked categorical terminations and ordered class protections a...
Immigration courts are civil tribunals that must afford "due process" to noncitizens, but they operate under different rules and practical constraints than criminal courts: there is no guaranteed gove...
Federal courts since 2009 have repeatedly constrained ICE’s use of detainers, treating most detainers as non‑mandatory requests and requiring Fourth Amendment safeguards such as probable cause and not...
Yes — can and does hold people in custody without a criminal trial, and in some cases without a conventional immigration-court hearing, by using civil immigration detention, , and administrative proce...
Once an immigration judge or applicable officer issues a removal (deportation) order, the government moves from adjudication to enforcement: is authorized to carry out the order, notify the person to ...
are administrative, civil processes distinct from : they are initiated by immigration authorities, use different standards of proof, and generally do not carry the full panoply of criminal procedural ...
The labels—expulsion, removal, return, voluntary departure, and self‑deportation—refer to distinct legal mechanisms and political practices that administrations invoke differently: some prioritize for...
Accepted evidence of lawful presence in an ICE encounter centers on federal immigration documents—green cards, passports with visas or admission stamps, Form I-94 arrival/departure records, and Employ...
materially improves ’ chances in immigration court: multiple large-scale analyses find represented detainees are far more likely to avoid removal, secure relief or obtain release, while detained respo...
Noncitizens facing who have minor or no criminal convictions can still access several legal pathways and procedural defenses — from and credible-fear interviews to full removal hearings before an immi...