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The topic is about the growth of immigration enforcement under President Trump, including the number of arrests and removals.
ICE and Florida state releases for 2025–early 2026 present two overlapping but not identical pictures: large, publicized sweeps that ICE and the Florida governor characterize as focused on "criminal i...
Official tallies for “” diverge sharply: press releases claim between roughly 527,000 and 675,000 removals and say millions more self‑deported , while independent trackers and agency data compiled by ...
Across multiple independent analyses of ’s 2025 detention and arrest records, roughly 29–35 percent of people detained had a recorded U.S. criminal conviction, while about 65–72 percent had no crimina...
Official DHS and ICE publications and prominent secondary trackers provide headline totals for removals in 2025 and the early part of FY2026, but none of the provided DHS/ICE documents or public data ...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has publicly claimed that between roughly 1.6 million and 1.9 million people “self‑deported” from the United States during 2025 as part of the administration’...
Yes — multiple government statements and reporting indicate that ICE officers and their families have been the targets of threats, doxxing and harassment, and DHS says those incidents have surged sinc...
Government tallies and independent reporting give very different answers to what share of people deported under President Trump’s mass-enforcement campaign were “criminals”: DHS and ICE public stateme...
There is no single authoritative percentage because it depends entirely on which metric and dataset are used: the publicly asserts that roughly 70% of arrests involve people "convicted or charged" wit...
The headline that “5% of people detained by ICE have violent convictions, 73% have no convictions” is grounded in multiple data analyses of ICE’s recent detention snapshots: analyses by Cato and repor...
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” (often shortened to the Big Beautiful Bill or OBBBBA) is a broad, 2025 federal statute that bundles hundreds of tax, spending and policy changes across areas from individu...
Official and independent tallies diverge, but the best reading of public reporting is that deportations (formal removals) in the Trump administration’s second term and calendar/fiscal year 2025 number...
’s second-term signature legislative achievement was the “” (H.R.1), a sweeping reconciliation package combining large tax cuts and targeted investments, which analysts say will raise deficits by roug...
Yes — multiple reputable reports and agency data show ICE has arrested people who held lawful or pending immigration statuses, as well as many detainees without criminal convictions, even while the De...
The and Immigration and Customs Enforcement () entered a memorandum of understanding ( on April 7, 2025) that creates a formal channel for ICE to request certain taxpayer identity and return informati...
U.S. labor markets in 2025–2026 have shown a clear response to stepped-up immigration enforcement and tighter legal flows: labor-force growth slowed or turned negative as net migration fell, producing...
The short answer is: , but not more removals of people convicted of violent crimes; the data show removals and detentions have risen while the share of detainees with violent convictions has fallen sh...
The leading reported offenses cited as the basis for arrests in 2025 clustered into two broad categories: immigration-related violations (including illegal reentry and administrative removability) and...
As of late 2025 and early January 2026, ICE was holding roughly 69,000–70,000 people in custody, a historic high driven largely by the agency’s expanded interior arrests and detention expansion . Avai...
since early 2025 has repeatedly attempted to condition or cut federal grants to jurisdictions it deems “,” targeting and other , but courts have largely blocked those efforts through injunctions and o...
A definitive count of how many ICE raids occurred in U.S. schools since 2020 by year is not available in the sources provided: ICE’s public statistics do not break out enforcement actions by precise l...