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The issue of racial profiling in the context of ICE's use of warrantless arrests and vehicle stops.
Kristi Noem told reporters that Americans should be prepared to prove their citizenship during Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, a comment that has prompted immediate legal and political...
A recent Supreme Court stay lifted a lower-court order that had barred certain ICE tactics, effectively allowing immigration agents to resume stops that may consider appearance, language, workplace or...
Available reporting shows clear evidence that some recent recruitment materials and rhetoric have nods to white‑supremacist language and imagery that appeal to extremists, and lawmakers and civil‑righ...
ICE does not have carte blanche to arrest U.S. citizens on immigration grounds, and tribal members born in the United States are U.S. citizens under federal law — a point emphasized repeatedly by trib...
Federal courts, state officials, civil-rights groups and watchdogs have cataloged a pattern of tied to recent —allegations range from warrantless home entries that courts have found unlawful to repeat...
Publicly available reporting and agency pages make clear that precise, up-to-date race and ethnicity breakdowns for the full ICE workforce are not centrally published in the sources provided, but thir...
are a mixed professional corps drawn from law‑enforcement recruits and career civil servants whose motivations include economic incentives and law‑enforcement identity, and whose demographic makeup in...
Recent reporting documents multiple incidents in which ICE agents detained or questioned Native American tribal members during enforcement actions—most prominently in Minneapolis—prompting tribal lead...
The question “ICE violate what constitution?” is shorthand for asking which constitutional protections ICE’s tactics have been accused of breaching; reporting and litigation point primarily to alleged...
Tribal identification cards can serve as official documentary evidence in some federal and state programs—but they are not universally sufficient to prove U.S. citizenship on their own, and acceptance...
are protected from by constitutional rights—most centrally the ’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures—and by statutory and administrative limits on ICE’s civil-enforcement powers, but those prot...
287(g) agreements deputize local officers to perform federal immigration functions, producing measurable shifts in enforcement—larger churn of identifications, detentions and removals in jurisdictions...
The 287(g) program is a federal mechanism that deputizes selected state, local, and tribal officers to perform defined immigration-enforcement functions under ICE supervision, and it has shifted incen...
ICE can lawfully prolong a traffic stop or detain vehicle occupants without a judicial warrant only when federal statutory authority and the Fourth Amendment’s standards are met — most critically, whe...
holds that an officer’s subjective motive is irrelevant to “reasonableness” when there is an objectively justifiable basis for a seizure, a ruling courts have repeatedly applied to allow pretextual tr...
The Supreme Court’s September 2025 emergency order paused a federal court’s restraining order that had barred ICE and DHS from using apparent race, language, workplace, or location as bases for immigr...
Since January 2025, federal policy has driven a rapid nationwide revival and expansion of delegations that deputize state and local officers for immigration enforcement, producing roughly a four‑ to f...
delegate specified federal immigration authorities to state and local officers, changing routine local policing by embedding immigration enforcement into local jails, patrols, and task forces and expa...
A string of reported incidents has produced multiple lawsuits and settlements after U.S. citizens were arrested or held at the direction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including a $125,...
Multiple independent news reports, community accounts and legal filings say in and were physically removed, detained or otherwise impacted during — including video-circulated incidents of people being...