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The transparency of government agencies, particularly the Department of Homeland Security, in their operations and data.
ICE and DHS maintain that their enforcement systems are designed to avoid arresting or deporting U.S. citizens, and the departments have publicly rejected reporting that citizens were removed . Yet in...
producing and premiering a commercial documentary raises immediate ethical questions about conflicts between public duty and private profit, the use of privileged access for commercial gain, and the i...
The available reporting does not establish a definitive, unambiguous fact that struck the agent with her vehicle; federal officials and some news outlets assert the agent was hit and suffered internal...
Federal immigration agents killing civilians is uncommon in absolute terms but poorly measured: the federal government and long-standing national databases do not publish a clear, regular count of hom...
There is no publicly available, government-tracked tally of deported since returned to office, and investigative reporting rather than federal datasets provides the only evidence of citizens being det...
Taxpayers paid for the official components of ’s travel — notably presidential aircraft flights, protection, logistics and other support — and watchdogs and reporters have tallied specific trip bills ...
Debate in the Congressional Record framed the objections of members who voted against creating the Department of Homeland Security largely around a handful of consistent themes: that the bill concentr...
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the Attorney General to make publicly available, in a searchable and downloadable format, all unclassified Department of Justice records, documents, communi...
has publicly released a series of high-profile statements and curated “worst of the worst” lists and counts touting hundreds-to-thousands of arrests in , naming categories (murderers, rapists, pedophi...
The newly released comprise millions of pages, images and videos that mention a wide swath of public figures — politicians, royals, business leaders, academics and entertainers — but most appearances ...
The authoritative sources for official hearing transcripts are the committee websites and the ’s Congress.gov hearing-transcripts list after publication by the . Video recordings are most often posted...
There is no single publicly acknowledged “ collaborators” compiled or labeled as such by the federal government; instead, researchers must piece together official rosters, third‑party databases and me...
The number depends on which source and date are used: the has repeatedly released figures claiming anywhere from roughly 139,000 in the administration’s early months to more than 675,000 deportations ...
News organizations and fact‑checkers have largely treated as a mix of provable evidence, raw investigatory material and unreliable or unverified submissions, reporting prominent names and documents wh...
Journalists and independent archivists have turned millions of pages, court filings and seized media into searchable, consolidated indexes by harvesting , scraping court databases, retaining deleted D...
A body of bystander video, a preliminary congressional “death notification” report from and a medical examiner ruling comprise the principal evidence released so far about the ; that material broadly ...
has published millions of pages under the Files Transparency Act, but the releases are heavily redacted and have prompted outrage from survivors and observers who say the material raises as many quest...
Publicly available official datasets and the reporting assembled here do not provide a clear, sourced count of how many lawful permanent residents (, “green card” holders) were removed by in calendar ...
Social media platforms have alternately amplified, labeled, and allowed the widespread circulation of sensational “ list” claims while relying on a patchwork of content-moderation rules; independent f...
Across the reporting supplied, the most concrete figure is that — the deadliest year for ICE in two decades — and additional deaths tied to ICE activity continued into early 2026; however, the sources...