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The role of independent reviews and oversight in ensuring accountability for deaths in custody, including the work of the DHS OIG and Congress.
Congress funded the 2025 ICE hiring surge primarily through the FY2025 reconciliation package dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (signed July 4, 2025), which poured unprecedented sums into homeland s...
ICE operates under the same constitutional rules limiting deadly force as other police — deadly force is lawful only to stop an imminent threat of death or serious injury — but in practice ICE’s polic...
has legal tools left unused after passage of the Transparency Act — but experts and lawmakers say the statute’s lack of enforcement mechanisms means expansion of will require creative use of existing ...
The (ADA) has been the legal linchpin that forces agencies to halt non- operations during funding lapses, and its practical enforcement over the past half-century has been carried out almost entirely ...
and maintain separate death-reporting streams: ICE publishes a dedicated “” reporting system and policy for deaths that occur while individuals are in ICE custody, while CBP’s reporting is folded into...
Taxpayer exposure for migrant and asylum accommodation rose sharply between 2021 and 2024, driven by heavy use of hotels and emergency “large sites,” mounting case backlogs and contracts that produced...