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Expanded use of federal law enforcement and immigration agencies in partisan ways
The simple numeric claim — 2.1 million, 1.6 million, 130,000 — matches reputable state estimates published by Pew and summarized in contemporary fact-checks, but those figures reflect the 2023 unautho...
The claim “ICE is Gestapo” circulates widely in U.S. political debate and media commentary, deployed by critics to denounce aggressive immigration enforcement and by defenders as a reckless slur; elec...
Two different counting methods produce two very different answers: using -style “removals” (formal deportation orders) yields roughly 827,000 people removed during the fiscal years that cover ’s two t...
The record of ’s second-term administration shows a pattern of policies and rhetoric that have actively reduced legal immigration pathways and amplified , creating the appearance—and in many instances...
Barack Obama’s administrations oversaw more formal removals (often called “deportations” in public debate) than earlier presidencies on an annual and per‑year basis, producing a total that many resear...
No: the available reporting does not support labeling a "." Major outlets and policy analyses describe her as broadly aligned with mainstream Democratic priorities, often pragmatic and sometimes moder...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that ICE deported 70 individuals who were potential U.S. citizens between 2015 and 2020 and concluded the agency “does not know the extent” of such enf...
A trove of emails — roughly 900 messages exchanged between Stephen Miller and then-Breitbart writer Katie McHugh in 2015–2016 — has been publicly linked to white nationalist ideas; excerpts were provi...
Raw counts of U.S. visa overstays are dominated by large-source countries in Latin America — especially Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia — while the highest overstay percentages are concentrated among s...
The short answer is: — the historical record shows processed roughly 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1954, while reporting about ’s four-year period (2021–2024) offers competing tallies and interpr...
Public reaction to ’s residences is sharply divided along partisan lines and shaped less by comprehensive nationwide polling than by investigative reporting and watchdog data that highlight risks and ...
Executive orders, presidential memoranda, and proclamations are all written instruments the president uses to direct government activity, but they differ largely in formality, required publication, an...
Barack Obama presided over some of the highest counts of formal removals in recent U.S. history, surpassing the Trump administration in total deportations while also reshaping enforcement by prioritiz...
A definitive, government-sanctioned apportionment based on "citizens only" does not exist for 2020; however, independent analyses that re-run the Huntington–Hill/math-of-equal-proportions apportionmen...
Using available reporting, the short answer is: not provably — the Biden era saw historically high numbers of Border Patrol “encounters” and an increase in the undocumented population, but encounters ...
Multiple actions by , his allies and mobilized supporters that recur across reporting—efforts to subvert or delegitimize elections, public calls to centralize control of voting, expanded use of federa...
A began after missed the January 30 deadline, and the best contemporaneous signals point to a short shutdown measured in days — likely over the weekend and, per leadership, ending by Tuesday when the ...
Federal vetting and intelligence screening for domestic extremist ties combines investigative work by the , , and partners with open‑source collection, automated screening tools, and policy directives...
The most concrete, documented in recent U.S. reporting is concentrated in , where federal prosecutors and local reporting describe large schemes that affected multiple social‑service programs and invo...
names roughly 35 primary authors/editors across 30 chapters and credits hundreds more as contributors; multiple reviewers found that authored most chapters and that several named architects have since...