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Immigration Policy 2025

The Trump administration's expansion of enforcement against noncitizens, visa revocations, and border measures, prompting numerous lawsuits and legal analyses.

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Jan 13, 2026
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Is there an age limit to apply to be an ICE agent

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...

Jan 17, 2026
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Which U.S. states have enacted statewide sanctuary laws and what do those laws require?

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 ...

Jan 19, 2026
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how many green card holders have been arrested by ICE since January 2025?

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...

Jan 25, 2026

ICE kidnapped a child in north Minneapolis just today, was this justified

, identified as , and his father as they returned home in the ; school officials and the family’s lawyer say both were flown to a , while and spokespeople have pushed back saying the agency did not “t...

Jan 6, 2026

What are current U.S. public approval ratings for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)?

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...

Jan 11, 2026

How many ice deportations in 2025

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...

Feb 6, 2026

What legal actions involving Donald Trump occurred in 2025–2026 and how are they documented?

’s return to the presidency in January 2025 triggered an unprecedented wave of — hundreds of lawsuits challenging and agency actions, multiple high‑profile Supreme Court matters, and new litigation he...

Feb 2, 2026

How has the Trump administration's economic policy affected the US job market since 2025?

’s economic policies since 2025 have produced a mixed : private-sector hiring and wage gains for some workers are cited by , while independent analysts and watchdogs point to slower overall job creati...

Feb 2, 2026

Which counties and states have the highest documented ICE arrest counts since January 2025?

arrests since January 2025 have been heavily concentrated in a handful of large states, with , and reported as the three states with the highest documented arrest counts in the first half of 2025 (Jan...

Feb 1, 2026

How has the proportion of criminally charged ICE detainees changed from 2010 to 2025?

The share of detainees who are criminally convicted or charged has fallen sharply by 2025 compared with earlier years, with multiple independent trackers and news outlets reporting that non-criminal d...

Jan 19, 2026

What role did regional migration drivers (Haiti, Venezuela, Central America) play in changing encounter rates under each administration?

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...

Jan 11, 2026

Are people being unfairly detained by icee?

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...

Jan 8, 2026

How have ICE detention priorities and practices changed since January 2025, and what effect did that have on the mix of convictions among detainees?

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, ...

Jan 8, 2026

Trump's most egregious and corrupt actions in 2025

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 ...