"The Department of Homeland Security says it’s not detaining Americans.
In written statements, it has said that “allegations that ICE is arresting and deporting U.S. citizens is FALSE.”
It has said that “when individuals are briefly questioned under ‘reasonable suspicion’ and are found to be U.S. citizens, they are immediately released.” And it has said that “U.S. citizen agitators are only held while they actively remain a safety threat to our officers and the public.”
But ProPublica has identified more than 500 citizens detained since President Donald Trump returned to office.
They are not just numbers.
Among them is an elderly car wash owner whom agents repeatedly knocked to the ground as they detained several of his workers. A 6-year-old whose mother says still has nightmares after agents pointed guns at him and his siblings. A high school senior who was detained after she tried to stop officers from questioning her autistic younger brother. A dad who was held for several days and missed his daughter’s third birthday.
Over the past year, several of these people shared the lingering effects of what happened to them with ProPublica."
https://projects.propublica.org/us-citizens-detained-immigration-photo-essay/
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