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The enforcement of immigration laws within the U.S.
President Barack Obama directed and used U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the principal interior enforcement arm to remove unauthorized immigrants during his administration, producing...
is a career immigration enforcement official who held senior ICE roles during the administration and then served as acting director of in the early administration; he was executive associate director ...
Multiple reputable outlets report that federal immigration personnel deployed to since late 2025 and into January 2026 number in the low thousands, but counts vary by source and by which agencies are ...
Yes — ICE agents can arrest or temporarily detain U.S. citizens in limited circumstances, most commonly when the citizen is suspected of committing a crime such as obstructing or interfering with an i...
, died after roughly a month-long hospitalization; his family says his condition worsened after following a routine check-in Oct. 28, 2025 . The family publicly blames ICE for separating the pair and ...
There are documented cases in which people who were legally in the — including U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — were nonetheless detained and in some instances sent abroad; such incident...
Proponents of abolishing argue the agency is institutionally abusive, unnecessary in its current form, fiscally wasteful, and politically incapable of —so dismantling it is the only way to stop ongoin...
, a five-year-old from was taken into with his father on Jan. 20 and transferred to the where . The arrest and transfer have prompted protests inside and outside the Dilley facility, sharp criticism f...
The core, legally defined job of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is to enforce federal laws that protect homeland security and public safety by investigating cross‑border crime, enforci...
Official guidance authorizes confiscation and retention of identity documents from noncitizens in the course of removal or criminal proceedings, and civil-society reporting and recent news show U.S. c...
and city leaders have publicly rejected federal accounts of multiple shootings and demanded that state investigators lead inquiries, while state law enforcement officials say they were blocked from cr...
A simple one-to-one connection between the counties with the highest pre‑raid and the counties where recent raids concentrate cannot be established from the available reporting: the detailed trac anal...
is not exclusively a in the narrow sense; deliberately endowed it with both civil and criminal authorities, and it operates as a federal law‑enforcement agency inside the that carries out and removal ...
The most defensible synthesis of available reporting is that roughly people were removed or repatriated during ’s first presidential term (2017–2021), with one widely cited figure being 2,001,280 remo...
’s public reporting and agency messaging treat “criminal” in multiple, overlapping ways: sometimes meaning people with , sometimes including people with pending criminal charges, and sometimes groupin...
Multiple federal actors have either explicitly pushed for more systematic in criminal contexts or developed programs that functionally collect immigration-related data, while other federal programs, a...
does train for operations in built environments: agency documents and reporting show investments in “hyper‑realistic” urban simulation facilities and (SRT) training that replicate homes, hotels and co...
Reporting shows a identified by school officials as was detained by in the area and transported with his father to the family detention facility in . Available public reporting identifies the child as...
The Obama administration institutionalized prosecutorial discretion to focus removals on recent border crossers, national-security threats, and convicted serious criminals—reducing interior removals a...
ICE’s statutory role is to enforce immigration laws — including detaining and removing people without lawful status — but its policies and practices are supposed to protect children and accommodate pa...