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The process and challenges of immigration detention in the United States.
The Obama administration never produced a single, formal legal definition of “sanctuary cities”; instead it moved federal practice away from blanket local collaboration with immigration detainers towa...
ICE maintains and records some race and ethnicity fields in its detention records, but those fields are unevenly collected, inconsistently coded, and not regularly published in a way that would reliab...
Proving U.S. citizenship to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is primarily documentary: a U.S. passport, a birth certificate, certificate of citizenship, or other government-issued proof are t...
Federal rulings in 2024–2025 have produced a bifurcated landscape: the Supreme Court’s stay and rulings have been read as clearing the way for broader ICE stops in public, while multiple federal distr...
Yes — individual ICE employees have been convicted of felonies, and reporting shows serious instances of agent misconduct and a lethal use of force that raised criminal and civil scrutiny . At the sam...
Locate first, mobilize legal help second: family and advocates should search ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS) using a full name or A-number, and if that fails immediately contact the local ...
Family members who need to prove a ’s U.S. citizenship should assemble authoritative identity and citizenship documents, locate the detainee and the facility, and coordinate with counsel or consular o...
If a U.S. citizen is wrongfully detained by ICE, immediate priorities are to prove citizenship, secure legal representation, and document the encounter while avoiding escalation; ICE must release citi...
ICE officers verify or challenge claimed U.S. citizenship by checking physical documents (passports, birth certificates, certificates of naturalization, green cards, I‑94s and similar papers) and by c...
Yes — a U.S. passport or passport card is widely treated by legal aid groups and ICE guidance as one of the primary documents that can establish U.S. citizenship during an ICE encounter, and presentin...
ICE’s arrest and detention powers derive primarily from the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and implementing federal regulations, which give immigration officers broad administrative authority t...
Federal judges across the country have repeatedly ruled that specific Trump administration actions exceeded constitutional or statutory authority and, in several cases, have issued injunctions barring...