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The practice of detaining individuals for immigration-related reasons, including the detention of Adrian Conejo Arias and his son.
and publicly say the boy’s father fled on foot and “abandoned” his 5‑year‑old during a in , a claim repeated by and in agency statements . Local school officials, witnesses and the family’s lawyer say...
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...
Federal data that explicitly link criminal activity to immigration status exist, but they are fragmented: agencies (ICE, CBP) and some federal justice bodies (, ) collect and publish citizenship or “c...
The short answer: the for arrests is widely reported in recent media and discussed by critics and former officials, and several outlets and commentators link that target to incentive-driven enforcemen...
are protected from by constitutional rights—most centrally the ’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures—and by statutory and administrative limits on ICE’s civil-enforcement powers, but those prot...
The label “” applied to detention centers is contested: some historians and commentators argue the term accurately captures mass detention of civilians without trial and punitive intent, while others ...
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...
, public reporting and advocacy groups identified multiple repeatedly tied to —Port Isabel, Adelanto, Stewart, and several large contract facilities such as Krome and California City are named in cont...
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...
Across multiple budget cycles asked for modest-to-significant increases in and border-related funding — including specific line items and larger //ICE surge or supplemental requests — while Congress, ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
A searchable federal court docket and multiple court orders, including an emergency habeas petition and a written opinion ordering release, are publicly available in the litigation filed by (filed as ...
transformed from an administrative function into a flashpoint: detainees experienced far higher infection rates and constrained medical care, and the crisis amplified scrutiny from lawyers, advocates,...
When people are held without a timely probable‑cause determination, courts and statutes offer three principal remedies: or habeas-type challenges to unlawful detention, suppression of unlawfully obtai...
A mix of court bottlenecks, congressional or state legislative moves, and administrative changes to together determine whether in 2026; increased , fewer releases, and faster interior arrests have dri...
citizens who are mistakenly or unlawfully detained by retain the right to consult with an attorney and to assert their citizenship, but they are not entitled to a government‑appointed lawyer in becaus...