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U.S. Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Since 2018

The topic is about the number of U.S. citizens wrongfully detained by ICE since 2018, and the lack of a single, authoritative count of such incidents.

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Jan 12, 2026
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How many ICE detainees are U.S. citizens, and how are they identified in ICE datasets?

Available federal and third‑party reviews show that at least some people whom ICE arrested or detained in recent years were U.S. citizens, but public ICE datasets do not publish a clean, authoritative...

Jan 9, 2026

How many documented cases exist of U.S. citizens wrongfully detained by ICE since 2018?

There is no single, authoritative count of U.S. citizens wrongfully detained by ICE since 2018 because neither ICE nor DHS maintain public, comprehensive statistics that track confirmed wrongful deten...