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The topic revolves around the issues of mistaken deportations and wrongful detentions in the U.S., highlighting the limitations and challenges in the current federal and administrative systems, including the lack of access to counsel, restricted judicial review, and the risks associated with expedited removal processes.
The short answer: available reporting in the provided sources does not support the claim that ; independent advocacy groups and journalistic counts most commonly put the number of during the Obama yea...
ICE’s statutory mandate and published policies make clear that the agency’s routine authority is to arrest and detain non-citizens for immigration proceedings or removal, not to deport lawful U.S. cit...
The history of ICE arrests across the Clinton and Obama eras shows shifting priorities and tools rather than a simple rise-or-fall story: Clinton-era enforcement established high-volume deportation ba...
The short answer is: it depends on which dataset and timeframe is used. For in recent years, a large majority of deportees had , but detention and recent-deportation data from 2025–2026 show that a su...
presided over a major shift in in the 1990s: he signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act () and other laws that expanded deportation grounds, created faster removal mecha...
and third‑country return agreements are operationally attractive to governments seeking rapid removals, but they collide with entrenched legal limits, , , and the weak capacity of many receiving state...
A U.S. passport (book or passport card) is widely recognized as one of the strongest, if not the strongest, single documents to establish U.S. citizenship and identity when interacting with Immigratio...
Federal and administrative systems offer a narrow set of remedies for mistaken deportations and wrongful detentions—primarily expedited administrative reviews, limited immigration-court hearings in so...