More than 170 US Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days
Detained citizens include children, pregnant women, and elected officials, with many cases dropped and no government tracking of these incidents.
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More Than 170 US Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents So Far This Year
When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned. “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” But that is far… Source
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents. They’ve been kicked, dragged and detained for days
ProPublica compiled and reviewed every case it could find of agents holding citizens against their will, whether during immigration raids or protests.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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