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U.S. citizen detentions by immigration agents

Investigations and reports on the number of U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents in 2025, with varying counts from different sources

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Jan 11, 2026
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How many American citizens have been wrongly detained by ICE in 2025?

ProPublica’s investigative tally — compiled and reported by outlets including OPB and cited by legal blogs — identifies “more than 170” U.S. citizens who were held by immigration agents in 2025 . That...

Jan 29, 2026

How many U.S. citizens have been wrongfully detained or deported by ICE since 2012 according to GAO and ProPublica investigations?

that in the period it examined (2015–2020) and that ICE’s own data show hundreds of investigations, arrests and some detentions of people later determined to be citizens (ICE: ~674 arrests, 121 detent...