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Cary Lopez Alvarado

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Oct 17, 2025
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Did Obama wrongfully deport legal citizens

President Obama did not order the wrongful deportation of lawful U.S. citizens; the materials provided show no evidence of Obama administering removals of people who held legal citizenship and instead...

Oct 6, 2025
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What are the grounds for ICE to detain a US citizen?

ICE cannot lawfully detain a U.S. citizen solely because an enforcement operation targets noncitizens; and affords rights to remain silent and to counsel, but multiple recent reports show citizens nev...

Oct 20, 2025
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US citizens deported by ice 2025

A range of investigations and reporting in 2025 documents that U.S. citizens have been detained—and in some reported cases deported or wrongfully processed—by immigration authorities amid an expanded ...

Oct 11, 2025

Is ICE abducting US citizens?

Recent reporting documents multiple instances in September 2025 where U.S. citizens were detained or involved in immigration operations that raise alarms about , including use of family members as a l...

Oct 16, 2025

Can a U.S. citizen be detained by ICE if they don't have their passport?

U.S. citizens can be detained temporarily by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during immigration enforcement actions even if they do not have a passport on them; several recent cases show cit...

Oct 7, 2025

American Citizens being detained by ICE

Multiple news reports from September–November 2025 document incidents where U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents were detained during ICE immigration enforcement actions, raising concerns abou...

Oct 16, 2025

What are the legal protections for US citizens during ICE detention?

Recent reporting and litigation show that US citizens detained during ICE operations face contested protections, with multiple allegations that agents sometimes detain citizens despite proof of status...

Oct 15, 2025

Can ICE arrest and detain US citizens by mistake?

ICE has repeatedly detained U.S. citizens in recent months, with multiple media investigations and personal accounts documenting cases where citizens were arrested and forced to prove their status bef...

Oct 12, 2025

What role does the Department of Homeland Security play in investigating ICE detention of US citizens?

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and , including reviewing incidents, responding to congressional inquiries, and coordinating internal accou...

Oct 5, 2025

Can ICE detain a US citizen based on an immigration database error?

ICE has detained multiple people later identified as U.S. citizens in 2025, with reporting showing contributed to these wrongful detentions. The available coverage and rights guides indicate a pattern...

Oct 11, 2025

How many cases of mistaken deportation of US citizens have been reported since 2020?

Reports do not support a definitive, aggregated count of US citizens mistakenly deported since 2020; available reporting shows , but no single authoritative tally. The most clearly documented case of ...

Oct 8, 2025

How many American citizens have been wrongfully detained by ICE?

Available reporting from September 2025 documents multiple high-profile incidents in which U.S. citizens were , but no single source in the provided material offers a comprehensive tally of all wrongf...

Oct 20, 2025

why would the president of the us support some of the residents of the country he leads and not others?

The core claim is that a president can—and sometimes does—appear to support some residents over others through targeted policies, pardons, visas, enforcement, and funding decisions; the supplied mater...

Oct 18, 2025

American citizens deported by ice

American citizens have been detained by U.S. immigration agents in a noteworthy number of documented cases this year, with investigations identifying and multiple high-profile individual detentions th...

Oct 16, 2025

How many cases of mistaken identity have led to ICE detaining US citizens?

A cluster of recent reporting and academic commentary documents multiple instances in 2025 where U.S. citizens were detained by federal immigration authorities amid allegations of , and advocates and ...

Oct 15, 2025

What are the most common reasons for US citizens to be detained by ICE in 2025?

US citizens are detained by ICE most often because of , with a smaller but important set of cases tied to encounters where ICE exercises broad warrantless arrest powers during interior enforcement. Re...

Oct 12, 2025

Which ICE facilities have the highest rates of detaining US citizens by mistake?

Three recent reporting threads show individual U.S. citizens were detained during ICE enforcement actions but ; available pieces instead document incidents, broader detention trends, and questions abo...

Oct 7, 2025

were us citizen deported

The central claim—“were US citizens deported”—is not supported by the supplied reporting: the documented cases describe , while a handful of U.S. citizens were reportedly detained briefly during enfor...