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Immigration Detention (Historical Samples)

The topic is about the historical samples of immigration detention. The fact-check mentions that scholarly work has estimated that about 1% of people in immigration detention in historical samples were citizens.

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Jan 29, 2026
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How many U.S. citizens have been wrongly detained by ICE each year since 2016?

There is no authoritative, publicly available year-by-year tally of since 2016; official ICE datasets and watchdog inquiries document individual cases and limited totals, while journalists and advocac...