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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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...