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Companies with large immigrant workforces sometimes speak out about immigration policy due to economic concerns.
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...
Official and watchdog reporting indicates died while in custody over the four years of , with 12 deaths recorded in fiscal year 2024; reporting practices, lags, and differing tallies mean that exact a...
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...
Official and public estimates of how many immigrants were deported during ’s most recent presidency vary widely: the and statements tout figures in the hundreds of thousands — including specific talli...
ICE locates and arrests undocumented immigrants through a mix of data-driven identification, criminal-justice referrals, targeted field surveillance and cooperative partnerships with local and federal...
— , , , , , and — joined to pass the amid outrage over ; their public explanations ranged from explicitly citing the need to avert a to invoking incremental s included in the measure, while many membe...
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...
The reporting reviewed consistently identifies as deeply aligned with white‑nationalist and ultra‑nativist ideas, citing leaked emails, policy choices, and condemnations by civil‑rights groups and law...
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...
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...
The vast majority of documented cases of migrant children separated from their parents occurred under the ’s “” policies, which legal challenges and government counts put in the multiple-thousands and...
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...
The short answer: absent a valid exception, ’s jurisprudence has long required a judicially issued warrant to physically enter a private home to make an arrest, and an internal memo asserting that adm...
The short answer is no: (SSNs) are not reserved only for citizens; the issues SSNs to U.S. citizens and to certain noncitizens who meet eligibility and documentation rules—most commonly noncitizens wh...
) documents and verifies deployments in the metro area by operating a bilingual, 24/7 hotline that funnels reports to trained volunteer “dispatchers” and on-the-ground “confirmers,” who observe, recor...
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 ...
are a mixed professional corps drawn from law‑enforcement recruits and career civil servants whose motivations include economic incentives and law‑enforcement identity, and whose demographic makeup in...