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The lawsuits and litigation filed against ICE regarding wrongful detention and deportation of U.S. citizens.
Reporting from multiple outlets shows that removed at least one 10-year-old American girl with from the and sent her to in March 2025, and separately that deported three U.S. citizen children — includ...
, civil‑society reporting and advocacy groups conclude a large share of removals were carried out through expedited administrative processes that deprived people of individualized hearings before an —...
Two sworn affidavits filed in federal court dispute the ’s account that brandished a gun before he was shot, with bystanders saying they did not see him hold or reach for a weapon and that agents tack...
’s federal lawsuit filed in the hours after Alex accuses and its agents of deploying intimidating, unlawful tactics in that chilled constitutional protest and obstructed local investigations; it seeks...
There is no authoritative, up‑to‑date tally of citizens wrongfully detained or deported since 2020 that is corroborated end‑to‑end by legal filings or court records; the found agencies do not systemat...
Federal and private litigants mounted multiple high-profile challenges to Obama-era summary deportation practices: the most consequential binding rulings attacked executive actions expanding deferred ...
Across the dominant trend was a shift toward nonjudicial, border-focused removals: in key years cited by DHS and analyzed by advocacy and research groups, accounted for roughly four in ten formal remo...
Cities confronted large, visible federal and deployments by counting direct operational impacts—overtime, arrests, shootings and agent headcounts—and by deploying legal, political and public-safety re...
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...
The reporting reviewed shows multiple news outlets, civil‑rights groups and local advocates alleging that ICE agents have engaged in racial profiling during recent enforcement operations, and some pie...
Documented legal records do not produce a single definitive tally of U.S. citizens wrongfully detained or deported by ICE since 2000, but available government and watchdog analyses establish a floor: ...
Multiple recent news investigations, local police complaints, and an lawsuit document numerous incidents in which and agents stopped, detained or confronted Black, Latino and Somali people—sometimes i...
Reporting compiled here does not identify verified instances of during ; instead the record assembled by journalists, researchers and rights groups focuses on large-scale removals of , stories of trau...
U.S. citizens who are detained by ICE despite presenting passports, birth certificates, or other proof of citizenship have a suite of legal remedies—immediate on-the-scene steps, prompt litigation opt...