Basics
This U.S. government agency was created in 2003, after the September 11th attacks, to enforce immigration laws.
What is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)?
This is the name of the 2018 policy that led to the mass separation of families caught crossing the border illegally.
What is the Zero Tolerance policy?
The 2024 National Immigrant Justice Center report found this many people died in ICE custody since the Biden administration began.
What is more than 23?
ICE operates under this cabinet-level federal department.
What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
This U.S. president created a specific Task Force in 2021 to locate and reunite the separated families.
Who is Joe Biden?
This percentage of deaths between 2017 and 2021 could have been prevented with proper medical care.
What is 95%?
ICE runs these facilities where people are brought.
What are detention centers?
Children separated from their parents are placed into government shelters run by this specific office.
What is the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)?
Detainees have reported being denied for this.
What is medication (or medical treatment)?
the specific term ICE uses for human beings in detention
What are "aliens"?
This is the specific constitutional amendment that guarantees the citizenship of the children born in the U.S.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects people from this, which occurs in detention centers.
What is torture or cruel treatment?
This is the minimum number of immigrants per day that a 2025 directive from the White House Chief of Staff aimed to have ICE agents arrest
What is 3,000?
The separation of U.S. citizen children from their parents, fundamentally violates Article 15, which is the right to this.
What is the right to nationality?
This article number protects freedom from arbitrary detention.
What is Article 9?