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The ongoing legal debate over the limits of U.S. immigration enforcement, including the role of courts and advocates
A “sanctuary state” is not defined in federal law, and state or local policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement sit in a contested but established legal space: generally per...
DuckDuckGo publicly positions itself as a company that has little or no user-search data to hand over and therefore does not receive ordinary search-related law enforcement requests, a stance repeated...
ICE detainers are administrative requests—typically the I-247 form—asking state or local jails to hold an individual for up to 48 hours beyond the time they would otherwise be released so ICE can tran...
The governing Supreme Court precedents are the anti‑commandeering line—principally New York v. United States and Printz v. United States—and more recent applications like Murphy v. NCAA that limit Con...
The principal Supreme Court decision that governs pretextual traffic stops is Whren v. United States, which holds that an officer’s subjective motivation is irrelevant so long as there is an objective...
Enforcement priorities from the federal executive have repeatedly reshaped whether and how local police cooperate with ICE: when Washington prioritized interior removals, it pressured—and sometimes su...
significantly increased the use of expedited, nonjudicial removals—especially at the border—while pairing that operational expansion with internal enforcement-priority memos that aimed to concentrate ...
Counting "" as formal removals versus counting the broader set of returns and expulsions produces dramatically different headline totals and public impressions, because removals carry legal orders and...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can stop, question, detain and arrest people in vehicles when agents have reasonable suspicion or probable cause to believe an immigration law has been violat...
The legal basis for immigration enforcement rests primarily on federal statutes—the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and implementing regulations—and the executive branch’s duty to “faithfully ex...