ICE sometimes detains and deports US citizens

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... more than 1,500 U.S. citizens spent time in immigration detention between 2007 and 2015 before the government acknowledged the mistake, federal records indicate. Northwestern University political scientist Jacqueline Stevens estimated that approximately 1% of all immigration detainees from more than 8,000 cases between 2006 and 2008 that she studied were U.S. citizens ...

The Supreme Court made it clear in 1920 with a ruling related to .. curbs on Chinese immigrants that it is illegal for immigration authorities to deliberately detain or deport U.S. citizens. The case resolved a dispute between Kwock Jan Fat, a man born in California who was denied permission to return to the United States after a trip to China, and the immigration authorities.

The unanimous ruling included a warning about the risks of accidentally deporting citizens. “It is better that many Chinese immigrants should be improperly admitted than that one natural born citizen of the United States should be permanently excluded from his country,” Justice John Hessin Clarke wrote in the court’s opinion ...

ICE .. detained for more than three weeks a man named Peter Brown who was born in Philadelphia and lived in the Florida Keys in 2018 because the agency confused him with an undocumented Jamaican immigrant – who was also named Peter Brown ...

https://citizentruth.org/long-running-immigration-problem-ice-sometimes-detains-and-deports-us-citizens/

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1. ICE to deport Irish father-of-three after a decade in Montco (PA)

By Laura Benshoff
July 12, 2019

... The 37-year-old Springfield Township man, an Irish national, expects to be deported any day now as he sits in detention. His family said his arrest is a reminder that amid the Trump administration’s impending plans to detain and deport recently arrived Central American families, less publicized enforcement is already having a broad impact on immigrants residing in the United States.

“We just didn’t think it would happen to us,” said Keren Byrne, Keith’s wife.

He arrived in 2007 through the popular “visa waiver program,” which allows visitors from certain countries to travel to the United States easily, but closes avenues to fight to stay if they violate the terms of that agreement. In 2009, he married Keren, a U.S. citizen who grew up in Northwest Philadelphia.

Byrne was arrested while heading to work Wednesday morning, while his wife was getting their 4, 6 and 13-year-old kids ready to go to a waterpark. Then, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer knocked on their door and delivered the news to Keren ...

https://whyy.org/articles/ice-to-deport-irish-father-of-three-after-a-decade-in-montco/

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2. Deported airman's mother inspires bill to protect 'patriot parents'

By BRITTNY MEJIA
JUL 11, 2019 | 5:00 AM
| GOLETA

Every day, Caesar Flores, a senior airman in the Air Force, thinks about his mother.

She supported his decision to enlist at 19 and was there to cheer him on when he graduated from basic training in September 2016.

Now, as he goes about his day-to-day work as a medical technician, the 22-year old’s mind is weighed down by the fact that Juana Flores, who was in the country illegally, won’t be around to celebrate other milestones.

The cause was a fateful decision Flores made decades ago: to leave California to visit her ailing mother in Mexico. She was arrested when she tried to cross back into the U.S. illegally ...

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-air-force-military-deportation-20190628-story.html

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3. Plan To Scale Back Program That Protects Military Families From Deportation

July 11, 2019 4:57 PM ET

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FRANCO ORDOÑEZ, BYLINE: Thirty-year-old Enoch Orona is in the Navy and could be deployed at any time. But he's less worried about combat than returning home and his mother not being there. President Trump promised major immigration sweeps would soon start if Congress can't tighten asylum rules. Orona worries about men with guns surrounding his parents' home, looking for his mother. She entered the country illegally 35 years ago.

ENOCH ORONA: It'd be like my world crashing down, you know, if I come back home to find out that, you know, my mother has been deported. You know, she's been pretty much my support this entire time. She supported my dream of going into the military when I was younger. She supported me when I was on deployment.

ORDOÑEZ: Orona, who is a citizen, is a U.S. Navy petty officer. He hoped his military status would protect his mother. His lawyer told him she qualifies for a program designed to protect the families of service members and veterans from being deported. But now, as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, the program is under threat. Margaret Stock is Orona's immigration attorney.

MARGARET STOCK: I think most people can imagine what it would feel like if you were fighting for your country overseas and at the same time, the government that's employing you in battle is trying to deport your family.

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https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/740871324/concern-grows-over-plan-to-scale-back-program-that-protects-military-families-fr

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4. I'm waiting to find out how many Muslims they are grabbing now

They know that we are focused on Hispanic arrests,

We know that they planned on grabbing Muslims, 2 years ago, before trump's plan was stopped by court order.

Wwe also pretty much know when they raid a place, a home. etc. they will also grab anyone else who is in the house if that person looks ..."illegal"..that's the term they use.
and that is why we are hearing of legal citizens being jammed into their detention cages.

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5. Planned deportations mainly for show (WaPo)

By Editorial Board
July 13 at 6:50 PM

AGENTS FROM Immigration and Customs Enforcement are launching major raids in a dozen cities this weekend aimed at deporting some 2,000 undocumented immigrants. And in case you credited President Trump when he said it’s foolish to telegraph a major operation by announcing it in advance, never mind. Mr. Trump himself did the telegraphing.

“There’s nothing to be secret about,” said the president, who called Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf a “disgrace” when she gave advance notice about raids in her city a few months ago. “If the word gets out, it gets out,” he said ...

Mr. Trump suggested the raids would be “focused on criminals as much as we can,” which would be fine if it were true. In fact, Homeland Security officials who confirmed the planned operation to the New York Times said the roundups would mainly target migrant families ...

... nativists in Mr. Trump’s political base .. may have noticed that despite his huffing and puffing — and very likely partly because of it — undocumented migrants are entering the country at a rate unseen in more than a decade. That has evidently left the president in need of an ostentatious way to show he is turning the tide ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-planned-deportations-are-mainly-for-show-thats-all/2019/07/13/f805e70e-a4e5-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html?utm_term=.839e71d90e3a