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Current policies and laws regarding immigration in the United States
The answer depends on which metric is used: DHS and tout that roughly are of people with criminal charges or convictions (their “criminal illegal aliens” framing) while independent data-tracking and r...
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...
The Obama administration presided over historically high numbers of removals and instituted expedited, administrative pathways that critics say prioritized speed over individualized hearings—practices...
The legal bottom line: simply being present in the United States without valid immigration status is not, by itself, a federal crime—unlawful presence is generally treated as a civil immigration viola...
administration did not have a formal, systemwide "" policy like the -era "" directive that intentionally prosecuted all adults crossing the border and thereby produced widespread, systematic separatio...
There is no reliable, authoritative figure in the open reporting that states how many Americans are “permanently separated from their families annually by the illegal aliens who murder them”; public s...
The administration carried out deportation actions numbering in the low millions over its eight years in office; mainstream DHS-based analyses count roughly removals through FY2009–FY2014, while other...
Multiple data streams and policy signals from 2025 indicate that increased coincided with measurable rises in people voluntarily, but the scale is contested: estimate 210,000–405,000 additional in 202...
The administration drew intense criticism for deportations from both the left—who called him the “” and protested rushed removals—and the right—who argued he was too lax on —reflecting a mixed, centri...
Joe Biden’s term has recorded the largest raw number of repatriations and returns when counting expulsions and administrative returns, but those totals reflect a different mix of “returns/expulsions” ...
Research that directly compares citizens, legal non‑citizens, and undocumented -rates">immigrants—most comprehensively the study using state arrest records—finds that immigrants overall, and undocumen...
When the comparison is restricted to ’s “removals” metric — formal orders expelling noncitizens from the — ’s presidency produced far fewer removals than his headline imply: reporting ties Clinton to ...
was created in 2003 when the Homeland Security Act folded investigative and interior-enforcement functions of the and parts of the Customs Service into the new , recasting immigration enforcement as a...
A constellation of nonprofit law firms, national advocacy groups, regional legal services, and youth- and community-led networks drive and advocacy in , with private foundations, community foundations...
No authoritative reporting or legal commentary in the supplied sources shows that citizenship has been revoked solely because a naturalized person previously worked without authorization; -of-citizens...
The statutory text courts parse when assessing is concentrated in 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a), which authorizes immigration officers “power without warrant” to interrogate aliens and to arrest aliens under spe...
The short answer: no single presidential decision “let millions cross” the border, but during President Biden’s term U.S. agencies recorded more than 10 million border “encounters” and millions of peo...
Before her marriage to , ’s modeling career was covered in two overlapping beats: straightforward fashion- and biography-style profiles that treated her as an international model who moved from to and...
The best available empirical evidence shows that undocumented (illegal) immigrants do not commit more crime than native-born citizens and, in many high-quality studies, commit substantially less: arre...
’s immigration lawyer, publicly laid out a timeline saying she first entered the in late August 1996 on a B-1/B-2 visitor visa, obtained H‑1B work authorization in October 1996, and later acquired per...