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The Immigration and Nationality Act, which governs immigration in the United States.
Federal law governing ICE activity on tribal lands is a patchwork of immigration statutes, longstanding treaties, congressional statutes like Public Law 280, executive-branch directives, and Departmen...
Yes — ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol (part of Customs and Border Protection, CBP) are separate agencies under the Department of Homeland Security but they routinely work together and share enforcement...
Federal immigration law requires many noncitizens to register with the U.S. government and—if they are subject to the carry rule—to carry proof of that registration or their alien-registration documen...
The statutory backbone for ICE’s power to arrest and detain noncitizens is found primarily in the Immigration and Nationality Act and its implementing statutes—most notably 8 U.S.C. §§ 1226 and 1357—w...
The U.S. immigration system imposes per-country ceilings that generally limit immigrant visas from any single country to seven percent of certain annual visa pools, with specific percentages and excep...
US immigration authorities apply a heightened evidentiary standard—“substantial and probative evidence”—to find marriage fraud, a threshold courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals describe as more...
in residential raids is governed by a mix of federal statutes that enable cooperation, state and local laws that can restrict it, and written agreements that deputize local officers—most notably 8 U.S...
State laws treat undocumented immigrants differently from federal immigration law by operating in a complementary but sometimes adversarial sphere: federal law governs status, admission, removal, and ...
A web of constitutional protections, statutory rules, and administrative review mechanisms is designed to prevent the deportation of U.S. citizens and to catch government errors before they result in ...
Derivation of citizenship is the statutory mechanism by which a child born abroad or as a minor can automatically acquire U.S. citizenship through the naturalization or status of a parent rather than ...
The ICE Directive 16001.2 is a formal agency policy requiring ICE officers, agents and attorneys to immediately and carefully investigate and analyze any indication that an individual encountered by I...
Federal immigration enforcement rests largely on statutory law enacted by Congress—principally the Immigration and Nationality Act codified in Title 8 of the U.S. Code—and on implementing regulations ...