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The need for comprehensive immigration reform in the United States.
The Obama administration oversaw historically high numbers of removals—often cited as more than 2 million across his two terms and record annual peaks such as roughly 438,421 removals in FY2013—prompt...
In 2025 ICE agents serve as the front-line federal force carrying out the administration’s aggressive interior immigration priorities: identifying, arresting, detaining and removing non‑citizens who f...
Under George W. Bush, ICE and predecessor agencies pursued conspicuous, large-scale workplace and interior enforcement—high-profile raids at meatpacking and poultry plants, expanded criminal prosecuti...
Jasmine Crockett is sharply critical of ICE’s conduct and of aggressive deportation practices, repeatedly calling for accountability when enforcement leads to deaths or mass removals and demanding tra...
pursued a two-track approach: reversing many restrictions and expanding legal pathways while also deploying new enforcement tools and emergency authorities to curb record migration at the southern bor...
MAGA-aligned activists and leaders have largely rejected Joe Biden’s immigration reform efforts as insufficiently punitive and politically motivated, while some conservative constituencies remain frac...
Healthcare providers and professional groups have signaled a mix of guarded optimism and concrete worries about the Dignity Act of 2025: supporters in the sector see potential to relieve staffing shor...
Detention and release policies diverge sharply depending on whether an individual has a criminal record: immigration law creates categories of mandatory detention tied to specified criminal conviction...
The Trump administration’s 2018 “zero-tolerance” policy directed federal prosecutors to pursue criminal charges against all adults who crossed the southwestern border unlawfully, a shift grounded in e...
Public sentiment toward President Trump’s immigration agenda and the role of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is sharply divided along partisan lines but has trended negative overall: multipl...
During the Obama administration the expansion of family detention in 2014–2016 prompted a cascade of legal challenges, court rulings that curtailed aspects of the policy, and sustained congressional p...
The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) was introduced in late 2014 as a narrower, priority-focused replacement for the Secure Communities (S‑Comm) data-sharing and detainer system, swapping broad auto...
President Obama’s November 2014 “Immigration Accountability” executive actions packaged a set of administrative directives that expanded temporary deportation relief for specific groups, reshaped enfo...