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Policies and practices related to immigration in the United States.
The count depends on the metric: using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fiscal‑year data for formal removals (what many sources call “deportations”), the Obama administration oversaw more than 3 ...
Official Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tallies and administration statements put the number of people removed, deported or otherwise “left” the United States under President Trump’s second ter...
There is no single, verifiable figure in the documents provided that counts “how many” people President Obama’s administration deported “without due process of law”; official and advocacy sources offe...
ICE is being followed, confronted and filmed in unprecedented numbers now because the agency’s operations under the current administration are more public, more numerous, and explicitly politicized — ...
Research across federal datasets and independent scholars shows that immigrants — including those in the country without authorization — are not more likely to commit crime than U.S.-born residents; m...
Across multiple government and research tallies, the Trump administration oversaw roughly 1.4–1.6 million “deportation” events (a sweep of removals, returns and expulsions) over its first four years i...
Sanctuary jurisdictions reacted to the Obama-era Secure Communities program by refusing to cooperate with ICE detainer requests, passing local and state limits on cooperation, pursuing legal and polit...
The balance of rigorous, peer‑reviewed research shows that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens: multiple studies using arrest and incarceration records—most no...
Nineteen U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, currently permit some or all undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses or driving privilege cards, according to multiple ...
Official administration tallies and independent trackers provide sharply different answers: the Department of Homeland Security and allied White House releases say the Trump administration has deporte...
A side‑by‑side "chart" comparison of Joe Biden and Donald Trump must separate measurable economic outcomes (GDP, jobs, inflation) from policy choices (taxes, trade, immigration) and from claims that h...
Donald J. Trump’s presidency produced a mix of durable policy changes and high-profile controversies: his administration pushed large tax cuts, aggressive deregulation, reshaped the federal judiciary,...
ICE detention levels fell sharply during the COVID-19 period and then climbed unevenly from 2019 through 2025: a 2019 peak near 50,500 was followed by pandemic-era reductions, a gradual rise through F...
ICE publicly reports detainees in three mutually reported buckets — those with U.S. criminal convictions, those with pending criminal charges in the U.S., and those with no convictions or pending char...
A definitive, year-by-year tally from Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 through FY2019 is not available in a single, easily citable table in the public record supplied here; ICE maintains FOIA lists and began rou...
Calling a public figure “stupid” is a crude shorthand that confuses raw intellect with political judgment, truthfulness and leadership style; a review of Kristi Noem’s record shows a mix of ideologica...
Senator Bernie Moreno (R‑Ohio) is the sole Senate sponsor listed for S.3283, the "Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025," and the legislative record and public trackers show no Senate co‑sponsors (Congres...
Multiple independent data pulls and media analyses indicate that a substantial majority of people in ICE custody during late 2025 and into early 2026 had no criminal convictions; published tallies pla...
Documented cases show that U.S. citizens have been mistakenly detained and, in a smaller number of confirmed instances, deported—one watchdog analysis found 70 deportations among cases it examined—whi...
Guantánamo Bay is a U.S. naval base site that has housed a military detention facility since January 11, 2002, becoming the signature locus of post‑9/11 indefinite detention, rendition and torture all...