DHS releases year-end enforcement statistics claiming ICE arrested the “worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens” including individuals convicted of heinous crimes. The announcements use inflammatory language describing arrests of people convicted of “raping a child under …
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Washington Post analysis of government data reveals a fundamental shift in ICE enforcement strategy under the Trump administration: federal officers have moved away from arresting immigrants already held in local jails to aggressively tracking them down on streets and in communities across the …
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Following Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, private prison stocks experience their second massive surge after a Trump win. CoreCivic stock jumps 29% and GEO Group vaults 42% in a single trading session as investors bet on profits from Trump’s pledge to carry out “the largest …
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Largest single-state immigration enforcement action in U.S. history with 680 arrests. Raids proceeded with standard agent identification protocols, contradicting later claims about masked operations being historical practice. Occurred on first day of school, causing significant community disruption, …
President Bill Clinton signs the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), dramatically expanding deportation authority and creating new categories of removable offenses. The law increases annual deportations from approximately 50,000 to over 200,000 by the early 2000s, …
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U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell launches Operation Wetback, a mass deportation initiative using military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants. Created by Joseph May Swing, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general heading the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the operation targets …
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