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Pattern of immigration enforcement actions in 2025, resulting in detentions and potential removals of U.S. citizens.
Current official figures and independent trackers show that the United States is holding historically high numbers of people in immigration detention — roughly 65,000–72,000 people in ICE custody in l...
Federal agencies and state programs recognize a defined set of primary documents as legally acceptable evidence of citizenship — most commonly a U.S. birth certificate, U.S. passport (book or card), C...
When questioned or detained by ), people — citizens and noncitizens alike — retain core constitutional protections including the ’s guard against unreasonable searches and seizures, the Fifth Amendmen...
Three headline numbers — -style findings, Economist/YouGov figures, and ’s approval/disapproval — diverge because , question wording and metrics, fielding modes and timing, and weighting approaches; t...
The to recent releases of political prisoners combined urgent diplomacy, ad hoc transport and reception operations, and use of existing immigration tools—most notably —followed by resettlement pathway...
Publicly released and statistics count millions of "encounters"—events in which people are apprehended, expelled, or otherwise processed—along from 2020 through 2024: roughly at the Southwest border s...
permits immigration detention of noncitizens—including asylum seekers—under a framework of statutory detention ( and ), judge-supervised bond hearings for many detainees, and discretionary parole; cou...
Federal courts since 2025 have delivered a mixed record on challenges to the renewed : lower courts have blocked specific applications—most notably an order preventing the administration from using th...
Since 2024, coordination between the United States and El Salvador on migrants labeled as gang-affiliated has combined formal agreements, ad hoc operational deals and law-enforcement cooperation — fro...
There is no definitive, source-backed count in the provided reporting for how many "legal immigrants" were deported in the United States in 2025; the available sources report overall removals, removal...
By federal counts and advocacy tallies, immigration detention in FY2023 was large and geographically concentrated: roughly 273,000 people were booked into ICE custody during fiscal year 2023, and ICE ...
The best contemporaneous accounting comes from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which reported at multiple points in 2025 that roughly between 1.6 million and 1.9 million people “voluntarily...
International law has not recognized "ethnic cleansing" as a standalone criminal offence, but the acts commonly described by that term—forced deportation, mass killings, rape, persecution and systemat...
Tax evasion in the United States remains a felony with steep criminal and civil consequences: federal law criminalizes willful attempts to evade tax and authorizes up to five years’ imprisonment and s...
There are no statistics in the provided reporting that measure how many U.S. workers changed their federal withholding status to “exempt” in 2025 in reaction to government actions; the corpus describe...