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Broader political initiatives that enable mass deportations and reduced due process.
Two leading, recent estimates put ’s undocumented (unauthorized) population between roughly 95,000 and 130,000 people, with analysts and advocates citing older or narrower estimates as low as about 81...
A precise, verifiable count of how many people died “” between 2001 and 2008 cannot be produced from the supplied reporting because the sources do not contain a comprehensive, authoritative tally for ...
“” are raw, event-based counts of interactions between migrants and U.S. authorities at ports of entry, land borders and other points, while net changes in the unauthorized immigrant population measur...
The best available empirical evidence shows that undocumented (illegal) immigrants do not commit more crime than native-born citizens and, in many high-quality studies, commit substantially less: arre...
Between 2020 and 2025, syntheses of the academic literature and multiple prominent reviews converge on a clear headline: does not increase crime and in many studies is associated with equal or lower r...
A credible one-time of the roughly 11–13 million undocumented people in would carry direct in the hundreds of billions and broader in the trillions; conservative operational estimates put a single‑ope...
The question “ immigrants” requires distinguishing fiscal impacts, enforcement costs, and the direct costs borne by migrants themselves; across reputable analyses, immigrants on net raise federal reve...
Estimates of the to vary dramatically depending on methodology and scope: place the annual net cost at roughly $151 billion (about $1,156 per U.S. taxpayer), while academic and policy analyses emphasi...
Recent government and research estimates put the unauthorized (commonly called “illegal”) immigrant population in the in the low‑to‑mid tens of millions, meaning that roughly one in four to one in fiv...
The —principally a new ICE “Detained Parent Directive” and related shifts in enforcement—has, according to multiple watchdogs and legal advocates, weakened protections that previously facilitated reun...
Noncitizens in the face two very different legal tracks: removal (immigration) proceedings are civil administrative hearings run by the , while play out in Article III courts with constitutional crimi...
found in possession of firearms without proper authorization face overlapping criminal and : federal prosecution under statutes like 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) can result in felony charges, while immigration ...
Reactions to the CBS Border Report story about the rapid expansion of immigration detention and enforcement are sharply polarized: many civic leaders, immigrant-rights groups and segments of the publi...
Undocumented immigrants are net contributors to the U.S. economy overall: most mainstream analyses find their tax payments and labor-market participation reduce long‑run federal budget deficits and bo...