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The detention of U.S. citizens by ICE.
Available reporting documents that under carried out large-scale interior enforcement, including targeted raids, detainers and many “” of people encountered during operations , but the sources provide...
has detained and even processed U.S. citizens in its records across multiple administrations, including during presidencies, but the formal deportation (removal) of a U.S. citizen is illegal under U.S...
If an ICE agent detains someone who presents U.S. government ID, the immediate priorities are to show valid proof of citizenship, calmly but firmly assert that one is a U.S. citizen, and invoke the ri...
As of late 2025 and early January 2026, ICE was holding roughly 69,000–70,000 people in custody, a historic high driven largely by the agency’s expanded interior arrests and detention expansion . Avai...
possess constitutional and statutory protections—most notably the ’s due process guarantee and the ability to seek habeas corpus review—but those rights are constrained in practice by immigration stat...
Documented instances of and related agencies range from short-term arrests during sweeps to a small but significant number of wrongful removals; watchdogs and advocates estimate hundreds of misidentif...
There is no public, sourced roster in the reporting provided that traces “each of the ” to a specific post‑detention destination, and the available official and advocacy records do not enumerate those...
When are formally “cleared,” the standard procedural pathway described in agency guidance and watchdog reports is verification of citizenship followed by administrative release, though practices on th...
Official U.S. government data do not provide a reliable, single-number answer to how many people held by are U.S. citizens; independent investigations and news compilations put the count of documented...