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The comparison of immigration policies and numbers between different time periods in the US
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
The second Trump administration presents demonstrable risks to particular groups and institutions through aggressive policy rollbacks, hostile rhetoric, and institutional reshaping that critics say un...
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 clear numeric rivalry exists in public debate: most reputable analyses of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data conclude Barack Obama’s administrations oversaw more removals (deportations and r...
Yes — the incident of Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian migrants in Del Rio became a major media story: images and videos circulated widely, prompted rapid political condemnation a...
President Barack Obama oversaw among the highest counts of federal “removals” and returns in modern U.S. history, with commonly reported totals around 3 million deportations during his eight years in ...