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The debate over immigration enforcement and policy in the United States, including the use of data to inform policy decisions.
The clearest, consistent signal across government releases compiled by the and contemporaneous reporting is that the largest raw counts of arrests in 2025 clustered in , and , with and also among the ...
and have publicly offered multiple, sometimes inconsistent arrest tallies tied to : agency statements highlight roughly 3,000 arrests during a recent surge and claim more than 10,000 total arrests in ...
The core question — raids and interior immigration enforcement differ between the and administrations — has a complex answer: and formal deportations and shifted tactics toward targeted, non‑public wo...
State-level research beyond generally aligns with national studies: are not associated with higher overall crime, and in many analyses immigrants—documented and undocumented—have lower arrest and conv...
Barack Obama presided over some of the highest annual deportation totals in recent decades, including a peak year in 2013 of roughly 400,000 removals and an often‑cited cumulative total of about 3 mil...