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The changes in immigration law and policy, especially those affecting lawful permanent residents, and the impact of these changes on detention and deportation.
There is no authoritative, public tally of citizens wrongly deported during ’s second administration; available reporting documents multiple individual cases but stops short of a single, confirmed tot...
Available reporting shows clear evidence that can and does detain and remove noncitizens who lawfully entered the — including lawful permanent residents and people with pending immigration application...
Lawful permanent residents (green-card holders) can and have been removed from the United States, especially when charged with criminal offenses, found inadmissible, or judged to have abandoned reside...
A single, definitive count of " while was president" does not exist in the public record because different sources measure different things — border "encounters," releases into the country, removals/e...
would immediately create legal limbo for hundreds of thousands of each year by complicating the issuance of routine identity documents and public-benefit eligibility, and would trigger extensive litig...
’s administration carried out far more removals across his two terms than the single-year figure for 2020 under ; fiscal‑year 2020 removals (about 185,884) were well below Obama‑era annual peaks and f...
The short answer: —neither president is unequivocally “worse”; outcomes depend on which metric is used. Administratively, reversed some -era moves (pausing the wall, promising humane changes) yet kept...
would likely advantage because noncitizen and immigrant communities trend Democratic, could shift local political power where they cluster, and because controversies over the idea help mobilize partis...
State and local “sanctuary” laws generally limit or prohibit local police from taking steps to assist federal —most notably by restricting compliance with civil detainers and by narrowing access to lo...
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...
’s mass criminalization of unlawful border crossings reoriented federal dockets in border districts toward immigration misdemeanor and reentry prosecutions, consuming courtroom time, detention space a...