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The Biden administration's immigration policy and border control efforts, including the use of Title 42 expulsions
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...
became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006, with multiple biographical accounts and contemporary reporting citing July 28, 2006 as the date her citizenship was finalized . Public coverage and instituti...
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...
The island did not call for an “open border” or invite indiscriminate illegal immigration as public policy; what happened on Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022 and afterward was a mix of emergency ho...
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...
“encounters” are an administrative tally that sums Border Patrol apprehensions, inadmissibles, and Title 42 expulsions across ports, land and sea, not a headcount of unique people . Because an “encoun...
on March 14, 2019 voted 59–41 to terminate ’s , with a dozen Republican senators breaking from leadership to join in rebuking the president; the roll call and many outlets reported the defection as an...
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...
formally rescinded the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) on June 15, 2017, a program that had been blocked in court and never took effect, and that decisio...
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...
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...
The balance between people who enter the “without inspection” (illegal border entries) and those who become undocumented by overstaying visas has shifted over the last two decades, with several author...
Other countries’ and historical experiences with legalization programs show that amnesties are neither magic bullets nor simple triggers for mass future migration; their effects depend on program desi...
The epithet “” was coined in the public debate by immigrant‑rights critics and advocacy leaders to condemn ’s deportation record; one widely reported, attributable public instance came when , then pre...
States and localities can and do use their own funds and legal authority to provide benefits to in ways that generally bars, resulting in a patchwork of programs that range from full ‑style coverage i...
Available reporting shows vigorous and continuing federal activity on the – border barrier — contracts awarded, miles of barrier under construction or planned, and administrative pivots across adminis...
Reporting on emphasizes its origins as a prison-born criminal organization and its transnational spread, but the sources largely do not treat the group as a coherent cultural community maintaining her...
The short answer: not in raw cumulative numbers — the commonly cited period (1892–1954) saw roughly 12 million entries, while reporting assembled around recent -based tallies places net migration duri...
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...
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...