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Salvadoran man illegally deported from the United States in 2025 to El Salvador
Public records and recent reporting show no authoritative, single-count confirmation that ICE deported any U.S. citizens in 2024; federal statements assert ICE does not deport citizens while investiga...
Reporting and public records show multiple instances in 2025 where U.S. government removal operations produced cases that courts and advocates have called “wrongful deportations,” including at least f...
Yes — reporting and court records show that during Donald Trump’s presidential terms ICE operations resulted in the wrongful detention and, in at least some documented cases, the removal of people who...
Available reporting and government reviews establish that U.S. citizens have been arrested, detained and — in at least 70 documented cases between 2015 and 2020 — deported in error; watchdogs and news...
Multiple investigations and lawsuits document instances where immigration agents detained or deported people who were U.S. citizens or had protected status, revealing systemic errors, at least dozens ...
Multiple mainstream outlets and court records document instances in 2025 where people the government later acknowledged or courts found were removed improperly — including U.S. citizens and lawful res...
Major news organizations have not produced a single, authoritative post‑2020 tally of U.S. citizens wrongfully detained or deported by immigration authorities; the most concrete government figure wide...
There have been multiple lawsuits challenging ICE arrests and detention practices — including class actions over courthouse arrests and suits over unlawful holding conditions — and courts have at time...
Documented instances of U.S. citizens being wrongfully detained or even removed span both domestic immigration enforcement and overseas hostage/wrongful detention cases; oversight reports and investig...
The best available analyses in the packet conclude that U.S. immigration authorities , while hundreds more were , indicating systemic verification failures . Individual cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia...
Reporting and agency data show multiple documented cases in 2025 where people with U.S. ties were detained and, in some instances, removed — including at least a handful of cases that courts or the go...
The available reports document and dozens more detained or arrested in error, while investigative outlets and a GAO review highlight broader, unresolved systemic failures that make the true total sinc...
The claim that "the U.S. government now intends to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia by Oct. 31" is supported by multiple mainstream reports describing a Department of Homeland Security court filing say...
Kilmar Ábrego García has publicly said he worked in construction and as a sheet‑metal worker and that he sometimes transported groups of workers between sites; unions and his lawyers have described hi...
The Constitution’s Due Process Clauses and longstanding legal doctrine say U.S. citizens cannot be deprived of liberty without due process, and advocacy groups and legal filings assert DHS is not supp...
Donald Trump and his administration have been accused of in several recent instances, but the record in the materials provided shows claims are focused on executive-branch noncompliance with lower-cou...
Dual citizens can be detained by ICE when there is an enforceable final order of removal or ongoing removal proceedings; litigation and recent cases show . Reporting and court actions from mid- to lat...
Reporting from major outlets and monitoring groups documents numerous instances in 2025 of U.S. citizens being detained, questioned, handcuffed and in some cases held for hours or days by ICE during l...
Available reporting and government data reviewed contain no verified count of U.S. citizens deported by ICE since January 20, 2025; the public record and ICE’s own categorization of removals treat “ci...
At least two U.S. citizens were reported by multiple outlets as wrongfully deported in 2025: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, deported to El Salvador in March and ordered returned by a federal judge, and Faustin...