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The protection of U.S. citizens from immigration detention by constitutional rights, statutory and administrative limits on ICE's civil-enforcement powers.
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...
courts have repeatedly recognized that many protections extend to non‑U.S. nationals lawfully present in the country, yet have carved out important limits where , , or asserted national‑security inter...
Contemporary, widely cited estimates place the unauthorized (undocumented or “illegal”) immigrant population in the in 2010 at roughly to 11.5 million people, with Pew’s March‑2010 estimate at 11.2 mi...
without authorization can be unlawful in multiple ways: it can violate criminal statutes that bar improper entry, trigger civil immigration removal proceedings, and run afoul of presidential proclamat...
citizens wrongfully arrested or detained by have legal remedies that include immediate steps to secure release, civil litigation for money damages and injunctive relief, and administrative avenues for...
As of mid‑2025, authoritative estimates place the total unauthorized (undocumented) immigrant population in the low‑to‑mid‑teens of millions; applying the well‑documented age profile of that populatio...