Category: Dept of Homeland Security
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This CATO Institute article, “ICE is arresting 1100% more noncriminals on the street than it did in 2017“ uses data obtained by FOIA from DeportationData.org, to show the following: Check out the various charts showing arrest types changing over time.
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The CATO Institute reports that data from ICE/DHS shows that one in five ICE arrests are Latinos on the street with no criminal past and no removal order. This means, according to the article, that these people have likely been profiled and randomly picked up instead of their arrests being the result of careful research…
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Watch this 5-minute video about a border celebration in Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona (August, 2025)
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The Tucson Sentinel reports that ICE is managing a little-known detention facility at the Phoenix-Mesa Gatway Airport which holds 157 detainees. The AROCC (Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center) is conveniently located to deportation flights. The Deportation Data Project continues to request government data with an on-going Freedom of Information Act request.
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This policy alert from USCIS (August 19, 2025) clarifies that discretion that can be used to deny US immigration status changes (for example a green card holder who is applying to become a US citizen) if the individual has “support(ed) or promote(d) anti-American ideologies or activities.”
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ICE is asking detainees to sign a stipulation (document) which says they agree to be deported without a judicial hearing. The National Immigration Project provides an ICE Stipulation Explainer which includes this information in both English and Spanish:
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Third-country deportees have already been sent to South Sudan and Eswatini and Rwanda may take up to 250 deportees from third-countries who refuse to take them back. Read more @ Border Report Matsapha Correctional Facility in Eswatini
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The new report explains how the Trump administration is using a longstanding loophole to circumvent sanctuary policies and obscure the full scale of its immigration actions. July 30, 2025 This morning, the Prison Policy Initiative released Hiding in Plain Sight, a report revealing the crucial role that locally-run jails are playing in President Trump’s program of mass…
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WASHINGTON – Today, the Justice Department published a list of states, cities, and counties identified as having policies, laws, or regulations that impede enforcement of federal immigration laws. “Sanctuary policies impede law enforcement and put American citizens at risk by design,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “The Department of Justice will continue bringing litigation against…
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