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Policy and operational changes in immigration enforcement in 2025-2026
There is no single, authoritative count in the public record that answers “how many came to during ’s first presidency (2017–2021),” because the government does not publish a net inflow figure for peo...
Federal and DHS statements assert ICE has arrested “murderers, rapists, pedophiles and gang members” across the country and have named several cases tied to the Memphis area, including an individual w...
(2017–2020) the administration sharply curtailed legal immigration—reducing green cards and non‑immigrant visas—and pursued that raised arrests but did not produce a sustained increase in removals com...
The number of immigrants deported under President Trump’s second term is contested: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has publicly claimed more than 600,000 removals since January 20, 2025 , i...
A federal judge has allowed the / to resume sharing limited — basic biographical, contact and location information — with , and reporting and court testimony indicate ICE is using tools that ingest th...
custody has surged to record levels since the start of fiscal year 2026, with single‑day counts reported around 68,990–69,000 detainees and national tallies cited as high as roughly 73,000 in mid‑Janu...
’s guidance emphasized targeted enforcement: focusing on national-security threats, serious criminals and recent border crossers and embedding supervisory review and prosecutorial discretion that redu...
No — independent datasets and multiple fact-checkers show that a large and growing share of people arrested and detained by in 2025–2026 did not have a U.S. criminal conviction, and several analyses p...
Yes — but with important nuance: multiple national trackers and recent polls show a modest but detectable slide in ’s approval since late 2025, especially on and several issue areas, yet absolute leve...
Available reporting does not supply a clean, single-source tally for every death tied to across ’s two presidencies, but the best reconstruction from the provided sources is that roughly 47 people die...
Federal courts have repeatedly checked the ’s attempts to end (TPS) for and , finding multiple agency actions unlawful under the and beyond the Secretary’s statutory authority, even as interim stays a...
and presided over large-scale removals, but “as bad as” depends on metric: Obama oversaw higher totals in his two terms and is often called the “deporter‑in‑chief,” while Trump’s approach narrowed leg...
has detained American citizens in a wave of high-profile and routine encounters across 2025–2026, from mistaken arrests on the street to violent takedowns at workplaces; reporting and alongside a . Wh...
The recorded far fewer apprehensions during ’s first year in office than the averaged, with DHS and CBP materials reporting monthly and daily encounter rates under Trump that are roughly an order of m...