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U.S. Citizenship

The rights and status of US citizens, including their potential detention by immigration authorities.

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Jan 18, 2026
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What specific documents are listed as “probative evidence” in ICE Directive 16001.2?

The ICE Directive 16001.2 contains a dedicated section titled “Probative Evidence of U.S. Citizenship,” but the reporting snippets supplied here do not reproduce the directive’s enumerated list of doc...

Jan 19, 2026

Which documented cases since 2024 involved ICE detaining people who later proved U.S. citizenship and what were the outcomes?

Congressional inquiries, advocacy groups and legal scholars say that since 2024 ICE and allied border agencies have detained a non‑trivial number of people who later proved U.S. citizenship, prompting...