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Changes in immigration policy and practice in 2025, including expanded expedited removal rules
The Department of Homeland Security announced it has waived upper age caps for new ICE law‑enforcement applicants — a change Secretary Kristi Noem framed as “ending the age cap” so “qualified candidat...
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia are commonly identified by advocacy groups and some reporting as having statewide “sanctuary” laws, policies, or legal opinions—though the exact list and ...
Precise, authoritative data tallying how many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) ICE has arrested since January 2025 is not available in the reporting provided; government and NGO sources...
Public reporting for 2025 presents conflicting totals: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has publicly claimed more than 605,000 deportations since January 20, 2025 , while independent compilat...
Regional drivers in Venezuela, Haiti, and Central America were major engines of the big swings in U.S. border encounters across administrations: Venezuelan political and economic collapse fueled a sha...
Yes—reporting shows a broad pattern in 2025–2026 of ICE detaining large numbers of people who have no criminal convictions and imposing policies that make release harder, producing outcomes critics ca...
Since January 2025, ICE enforcement priorities shifted from a model that emphasized targeting immigrants with serious criminal convictions toward broad, mandatory detention and mass interior arrests, ...
The most egregious and plausibly corrupt actions of President Trump in 2025, as documented by public trackers and mainstream reporting, center on sweeping executive fiat to punish political opponents ...
Current national polling shows more Americans disapprove than approve of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is doing its job: multiple national surveys from 2025 into late 2025 report disap...