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The status of individuals who have received TPS and their potential to become undocumented if their TPS is terminated.
ICE officers in public encounters commonly ask for identification and immigration papers, but what they can legally compel depends on the context: routine public stops do not automatically give ICE th...
Federal law and the Constitution set both bright-line and situational limits on arrests and detentions: the ’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to , while statutes like 8 ...
“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...
Secondary inspection is a layered CBP procedure applied to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (LPRs), and visa holders but it is implemented with different legal consequences and discretionary ...
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program is an online, fee-based service run by USCIS that lets registered federal, state, tribal and local agencies check an applicant’s immig...
The provided reporting does not include or verify the specific figure “,” so it is impossible from these sources alone to say whether that number does or does not include (TPS) holders (limit of repor...
The regime sets federal minimum standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards and requires applicants to present , but the card itself does not definitively prove citizenship because compl...
in the can sometimes obtain lawful status through a mix of long-standing immigration forms (family petitions, asylum, humanitarian visas), special statutory mechanisms (registry, section 245(i)), reli...
are people residing without current lawful immigration status, a condition and legal dictionaries describe as “unauthorized” or “undocumented” rather than a categorical personal criminality . Whether ...
The mainstream way and policy analysts divide “types” of immigrants centers on the pathways that lead to lawful permanent residency: family‑based, employment‑based, humanitarian (refugees and asylees)...
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) approaches someone in public, the practical sequence is: stay calm, ask “Am I free to go?”, invoke the right to remain silent, avoid presenting false doc...