Index/Topics/Immigration policy and border control

Immigration policy and border control

The Biden administration's immigration policy and border control efforts, including the use of Title 42 expulsions

Fact-Checks

11 results
Jan 11, 2026
Most Viewed

Is illegally entering the US a criminal, a civil matter or both?

Illegally entering the United States is treated as both a civil and a criminal matter under U.S. law: unauthorized presence and overstaying are principally civil immigration violations that can trigge...

Jan 15, 2026
Most Viewed

Has Mr Trump been arrested this evening

No authoritative reporting in the provided sources confirms that Donald Trump "has been arrested this evening"; sources in the packet record past arrests, indictments and a recent criminal matter tied...

Jan 21, 2026

Can ICE be abolished as easy as people claim

is politically and legally possible but far from easy: it would require congressional legislation, a clear plan to reassign or eliminate enforcement functions, and sustained political momentum amid fi...

Jan 21, 2026

How do deportation rates and procedures under Obama compare quantitatively to the Bush and Trump administrations?

presided over higher recorded than and (by most datasets used by ) higher annual removal rates than , but comparisons are complicated by shifting definitions—“removals” versus “returns/expulsions”—and...

Jan 20, 2026

How did Title 42 expulsions function during the Biden years and what impact did they have on migrant flows?

Title 42 was a pandemic-era public health authority used to expel migrants at the U.S. land borders without asylum screening; the Biden administration maintained and then ended the practice in 2023, p...

Jan 19, 2026

What do state-level studies (like Texas) reveal about arrest and conviction rates by immigration status?

State-level studies centered on Texas—the only state that systematically links arrest and conviction records to DHS immigration-status responses—consistently find that undocumented immigrants are arre...

Jan 10, 2026

Which senators and representatives cosponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act (S.304/H.R.569) in 2025?

The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025 was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–SC) as S.304 and in the House by Rep. Brian Babin (R–TX) as H.R.569; the official congressional pages list...

Jan 10, 2026

Were any Trump-era immigration policies modeled on or inspired by Nazi-era policies?

The record shows vigorous and repeated comparisons between Trump-era immigration policies and Nazi-era practices—especially from commentators, advocacy outlets and some scholars who point to shared fe...

Jan 10, 2026

How many illegal immigrants voluntarily left us in 2025

The best contemporaneous accounting comes from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which reported at multiple points in 2025 that roughly between 1.6 million and 1.9 million people “voluntarily...

Jan 9, 2026

Have there been credible investigations or legal challenges about Melania Trump's immigration status?

Credible news organizations have investigated Melania Trump’s immigration history and reported evidence that she was paid for U.S. modeling work before she had formal work authorization, but those inv...

Jan 8, 2026

How did deportation numbers under Obama compare to those under Trump?

Aggregate figures reported by government and think‑tank sources generally show that Barack Obama’s two terms produced more formal removals than Donald Trump’s single term, with widely cited estimates ...