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U.S. citizen detentions and deportations

There have been reports of U.S. citizens being caught up in enforcement and deported by mistake, but the scale of this issue is not well-tracked in official datasets.

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Have people legally in the US or US citizens been deported before 2024?

There are documented cases in which people who were legally in the — including U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — were nonetheless detained and in some instances sent abroad; such incident...