Questions tagged [immigration-customs-enforcement]
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency in the United States of America.
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Why are national guards in states nowhere near the US Mexico border getting involved in border security with Mexico?
I have seen an article saying that the state national guard of North Dakota is preparing to send troops to the US Mexico border. Other states have done this too, I just pick North Dakota because it is ...
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Is Jeff Sessions’ Zero Tolerance Policy still in effect?
In April 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions implemented a "zero tolerance policy", requiring the Department of Justice to criminally prosecute every single person caught crossing the border ...
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Is it possible to have no customs union and a soft border?
I know that there have been answers to similar questions in the context of Brexit, and the consensus seems to be that it's not possible. But in the question about why the US-Canada border is soft at ...
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Would it be possible for US asylum applicants to be processed in their home countries?
As I understand it, applicants for USA asylum are required to initially processed either in the US or at a US port-of-entry. (Persons seeking refugee status are processed differently- the focus of my ...
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Why can't we just turn back migrants at the US border? [closed]
Asking specifically about migrants that are picked up at the Mexican border. They should be turned back unless we have probable cause to believe they are political asylum seekers.
Border patrol ...
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Available data on persons charged with human trafficking on the Southwest border?
One of the justifications offered to support the child separation policy at the SW border is a humanitarian one of liberating children from persons who are bringing children into the US to "sell" or ...
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What happens if administration doesn't meet the deadline to reunify families?
On June 27 federal judge Dana Sabraw ordered that the Trump administration had to reunify the families that were separated when they tried to enter the US. Children under 5 had to be returned to their ...
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Has ICE suspended criminal referrals of illegal entries by families?
A few months ago, Attorney General Jeff Sessions implemented a "zero tolerance policy", requiring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to criminally prosecute every single person caught crossing the border ...
