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Current policies and laws regarding immigration in the United States
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...
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” ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Former models publicly accused Model Management of and labor abuses—saying they worked in the without proper work authorization, were charged opaque fees and high rents, and in at least one case alleg...
An ICE arrest is carried out under a civil immigration enforcement framework authorized by statutes like 8 U.S.C. §1357 and related administrative warrant and detainer authorities, while criminal kidn...
A person who entered the United States illegally but later became a naturalized U.S. citizen would not be treated by ICE as an "illegal immigrant" for purposes of immigration enforcement, because ICE’...
Across the three presidencies, removals labeled “criminal” versus “noncriminal” shifted with policy and data practices: the Obama-era enforcement emphasized recent border crossers and prioritized crim...