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Federal courts and settlements have repeatedly held that unlawfully detained citizens in specific cases and contexts, producing a patchwork of wins for plaintiffs and doctrinal rulings limiting detain...
Documented instances of citizens by immigration authorities span decades and include high-profile litigated cases, settlements, and alarming administrative failures; scholars and advocates estimate hu...
Yes — U.S. citizens have been wrongfully detained and, in documented instances, deported or nearly deported by federal immigration authorities; a growing body of investigative reporting, congressional...
A small but growing body of federal court rulings has produced enforceable remedies and injunctions against ICE practices that have led to the wrongful detention of U.S. citizens, most prominently the...
A string of reported incidents has produced multiple lawsuits and settlements after U.S. citizens were arrested or held at the direction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including a $125,...
Federal courts have repeatedly found that ICE and local partners sometimes unlawfully detained people — including U.S. citizens or individuals with strong citizenship claims — and have ordered remedie...
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 ...
by are a documented, recurring problem rather than isolated anomalies: newsroom investigations and watchdog reports have identified dozens to hundreds of cases, and officials and lawyers say systemic ...
There is no definitive public tally in the provided reporting that answers how many confirmed cases of U.S. citizens were deported and then litigated to final judgment since 2000; the sources document...
Federal and lower courts in recent years have repeatedly found that and allied local law enforcement violated constitutional and statutory protections when detaining people later shown to be U.S. citi...
U.S. citizens wrongfully detained or deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have several legal remedies—immediate administrative steps, constitutional and statutory claims in federal co...
There is no single, definitive count provided in the assembled materials for how many reported cases of ICE detaining U.S. citizens occurred in 2024; the documents include specific 2024 instances and ...