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The impact of policy and enforcement changes on the population of unauthorized immigrants, including increased interior arrests and intensified enforcement.
There is no single, unambiguous tally of “how many illegal immigrants came to the U.S. during the Biden administration”; available government encounter counts, removals, releases and population estima...
Available reporting in the packet does not provide a single, authoritative total count of people who crossed the during ’s first term (Jan 2017–Jan 2021); instead, the sources describe trends — notabl...
enforces federal immigration statutes and says it targets threats to national security and public safety, not people of any particular race . Yet multiple watchdogs, legal groups and reporting documen...
Three kinds of independent datasets are being used in 2025–2026 to track U.S. deportations: cleaned, public-facing government extractions and FOIA-based compilations like the Deportation Data Project ...
’s undocumented workforce is concentrated in a handful of industries—primarily agriculture, meat and food processing, and segments of the care and construction economies—and in certain counties in sou...
The best available estimates place the number of unauthorized (undocumented) immigrants in between roughly 1.7 million and about 2.1 million people, with most prominent research centers clustering nea...
Major incidents—high‑profile raids and fatal shootings—produce rapid, measurable shifts in in the weeks that follow: unfavorable ratings for ICE rise, support for sweeping reforms or even abolition in...
The main arguments that benefit ) center on and public-safety mandates, legal authority to enforce hundreds of statutes, and executive-branch backing to prioritize and rescale interior enforcement — c...
Media on the right and the left constructed competing narratives about -era totals: conservatives highlighted large aggregate numbers to argue Obama was deceptively harsh and to normalize later tough ...
played a central operational role in carrying out deportations under both the Obama and , but the character of that role shifted: the emphasized formal removals and targeted even as it delivered histo...
centralizes individual-level U.S. datasets obtained via and government releases and provides documentation and codebooks to help users navigate them . The team performs structured processing and limit...