Citizen Detainment
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
U.S. citizen detained by ICE questions vote for Trump: ‘Just following Hispanic people’
A Virginia man said he was driving to work Wednesday with two other men near his home in Virginia when he was stopped by ICE agents with guns in their hands.
Jackie Bensen, NBC4 Washington
US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake
Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming arrests of his co-workers in Alabama when officers arrested him
José Olivares
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
Suzanne Gamboa
Immigration agents mistakenly detain deputy U.S. marshal in Tucson, feds confirm
A deputy U.S. marshal was mistakenly detained by immigration agents inside the federal building that houses Tucson’s immigration court, U.S. Marshals Service officials confirmed on Thursday.
Emily Bregel
Trump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It
The collateral damage increasingly appears to be lawful U.S. citizens.
Adrian Carrasquillo
U.S. citizen detained for 10 days by immigration officials may not have known what he was signing
A 19-year-old man who was held by immigration officials for ten days may not have been aware of what he was doing, when he allegedly signed a paper provided by authorities, admitting to having entered the country illegally.
Danyelle Khmara
Federal Court Rules in Favor of U.S. Citizen Illegally Detained for Deportation by Florida Sheriff | American Civil Liberties Union
Decision affirms that U.S. citizen Peter Sean Brown was illegally detained in violation of Fourth Amendment rights
Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries
Confrontations with judges are grabbing attention, but more quietly a pattern of questionable arrests shows the extent to which the administration is willing to test norms and laws.
Annie Waldman
"Julio Noriega,
Held by ICE for more than 10 hours, according to his attorneys.
Noriega, a 54-year-old man born and raised in Chicago, said in court documents that he had just finished handing out résumés when ICE officers grabbed him from behind, handcuffed him and put him in a van with other detainees. Officers confiscated his phone and wallet, which held his Social Security card and driver’s license — documents proving his citizenship.
Noriega alleges that he spent the next several hours in ICE custody — first in the van and then in a processing center, handcuffed and without food, water or access to a bathroom. After midnight, he said in the court documents, officers checked his wallet, realized he was a citizen and let him go."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration
Held by ICE for more than 10 hours, according to his attorneys.
Noriega, a 54-year-old man born and raised in Chicago, said in court documents that he had just finished handing out résumés when ICE officers grabbed him from behind, handcuffed him and put him in a van with other detainees. Officers confiscated his phone and wallet, which held his Social Security card and driver’s license — documents proving his citizenship.
Noriega alleges that he spent the next several hours in ICE custody — first in the van and then in a processing center, handcuffed and without food, water or access to a bathroom. After midnight, he said in the court documents, officers checked his wallet, realized he was a citizen and let him go."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration
"In Texas, a family with mixed immigration statuses ran into trouble at a Border Patrol checkpoint, where they were detained while rushing their 10-year-old daughter — a U.S. citizen — to the hospital.
When the girl woke up with a headache and dizziness on Feb. 3, her undocumented parents — who were in the process of applying for T visas, which are granted to victims of human trafficking — packed her and her four siblings into the car. They brought birth certificates for their five U.S.-born children, medical records, and letters from doctors and lawyers.
They were held at the Border Patrol checkpoint for six hours and then transported to a detention center.
One of the first things [Customs and Border Protection] did was call the hospital, and a social worker confirmed everything and made it pretty clear that they needed to be let through because of the nature of her condition, But rather than do anything to make sure that this U.S. citizen child got treatment she needed, they detained the whole family and took away the girl’s medication."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration
When the girl woke up with a headache and dizziness on Feb. 3, her undocumented parents — who were in the process of applying for T visas, which are granted to victims of human trafficking — packed her and her four siblings into the car. They brought birth certificates for their five U.S.-born children, medical records, and letters from doctors and lawyers.
They were held at the Border Patrol checkpoint for six hours and then transported to a detention center.
One of the first things [Customs and Border Protection] did was call the hospital, and a social worker confirmed everything and made it pretty clear that they needed to be let through because of the nature of her condition, But rather than do anything to make sure that this U.S. citizen child got treatment she needed, they detained the whole family and took away the girl’s medication."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration/