List the names of 10 US citizens deported by ICE
Executive summary
Reporting and government reviews confirm that U.S. citizens have been arrested, detained and in some instances removed in immigration enforcement actions, but the public record assembled in the provided sources does not supply ten named, verifiable U.S. citizens whom ICE definitively deported; only a small number of individual names appear with clear claims of removal in the reporting (Chanthila Souvannarath is the clearest documented example) while oversight reports and advocacy groups point to dozens or scores of potential wrongful removals without always naming victims [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. One clearly documented case: Chanthila Souvannarath
Civil-rights groups and litigation-focused reporting say ICE deported Chanthila Souvannarath to Laos despite a federal court order recognizing his substantial claim to U.S. citizenship and temporarily blocking removal; the National Immigration Project described the removal as a violation of a court order and says Souvannarath had derivative citizenship acquired as a child, but was nonetheless sent abroad [1].
2. Multiple reported deportations, few publicly named victims
Advocacy organizations and watchdogs report that ICE and related agencies have removed people who later claimed U.S. citizenship — the American Immigration Council summarized government data showing ICE deported as many as 70 people who were potential U.S. citizens in a recent review period, and GAO found inconsistent tracking that makes it difficult to determine the full scope of such errors [2] [3].
3. Cases described by civil liberties groups: three U.S. citizen children deported (names not specified in the source)
The ACLU reported that ICE deported families that included three U.S. citizen children and described deeply troubling circumstances — including one child with metastatic cancer who was deported without medication — but the press release does not provide the children's names in the material supplied here [4].
4. Broader tallies and uncertainty: numbers vs. named individuals
Federal and independent analyses paint a picture of systemic under‑tracking: the GAO found gaps in ICE training and recordkeeping and noted at least some removals of people later claimed as U.S. citizens, while datasets and watchdog tallies (cited by the American Immigration Council and media) give counts — including arrests, detainers and a limited number of removals — but they rarely translate into published lists of ten named, confirmed U.S. citizens deported by ICE in the supplied reporting [3] [2].
5. High-profile detentions and contested identities without clear removal names
Numerous news and congressional summaries recount high-profile detentions and litigation — including cases like Lopez‑Gomez and others prompting congressional scrutiny — but the documents provided here (Congressional summary, news snippets, and Wikipedia synthesis) mix allegations, ongoing litigation and disputed agency accounts, meaning many named individuals appear in the public record as detained or litigating, not clearly as final deportations ordered and executed by ICE in the sources at hand [5] [6].
6. DHS and ICE pushback and alternative framing
The Department of Homeland Security has publicly insisted that ICE does not deport U.S. citizens and published rebuttals to some media accounts, arguing in specific instances that individuals arrested were not U.S. citizens or that the agency followed proper procedures; that institutional denial and case-by-case disputes complicate efforts to assemble an authoritative list of ten confirmed U.S. citizens deported by ICE from the provided materials [7].
7. Why the record is fragmented: practices, data gaps and legal secrecy
Oversight reports and advocacy filings underscore systemic problems — inconsistent training about citizenship claims, failure to systematically track encounters involving potential citizenship and rapid, sometimes incommunicado removals — which together produce reliable counts of potential errors but leave many individual identities unreported or legally contested in the public sources offered here [3] [8].
8. Conclusion: what can be established from the provided reporting
From the supplied documents, one named individual — Chanthila Souvannarath — is documented as having been deported despite claims to U.S. citizenship [1]; advocacy groups and oversight bodies describe additional deportations involving U.S. citizen children and dozens more potential citizen arrests/removals but do not provide ten fully corroborated names in the material given, and DHS/ICE dispute some reported cases [4] [2] [7].