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US border control and immigration enforcement at the border
Federal immigration officers operate under statutory authority and constitutional constraints that shape what they may do in states; but cannot lawfully commandeer state officials to enforce federal l...
L’ICE a opéré sous des logiques comparables — et expulsions nombreuses — mais la nature, l’étendue et la visibilité de ses actions ont changé entre les administrations Obama et Trump : sous Obama l’ag...
“Removals” are formal, court‑based expulsions that carry legal consequences and a removal order; “returns” are non‑order movements out of the country—often voluntary or administrative at the border—an...
Immigration is, on balance, good for the United States economically and demographically, but the gains are uneven, policy-sensitive, and politically contested; aggregate research finds net positive ef...
The legal default at U.S. borders permits warrantless searches of people and their belongings—including electronic devices—under the longstanding "border search" exception to the Fourth Amendment, a p...
Yes — did send (formally “remove” or “deport”) people back to their countries of origin in large numbers: data and contemporary reporting record hundreds of thousands of removals annually under Obama ...
Available government and research reporting does not provide a single, definitive count of how many distinct countries people who enter the without authorization have come from; the unauthorized popul...
The United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a large, domestically focused enforcement agency whose stated mission is to protect national security and public safety by enforcing mor...