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A policy launched in 2005 under the Bush administration to systematically refer large numbers of people apprehended at the Southwest border into criminal court.
Estimates of children separated from parents at the U.S. border during the Trump administration vary widely because they were compiled from incomplete, inconsistent government records, court filings a...
Criminal prosecutions under 8 U.S.C. §1325 (illegal entry) and §1326 (illegal reentry) have become a large and visible share of federal criminal caseloads in recent years — at times representing more ...
Three distinct federal turns — the launch in 2005, the ’s 2017–2018 prosecutorial push, and more recent surges under both the (as Title 42 unwound) and the 2025 Trump administration — account for the ...
Operation Streamline is a federal program that mass-criminally prosecutes unauthorized border crossers and has been documented to funnel some people who express fear of return into criminal courts rat...
The dominant groups affected by U.S. removals have shifted across administrations: under Obama removals peaked in volume and disproportionately affected long-term migrants including Mexicans and Centr...