170 U.S. Citizens Detained by ICE

US Citizens have spent days being kicked, dragged, and imprisoned. Justice Brett Kavanaugh stated that Americans shouldn’t be worried when the Supreme Court recently let immigration authorities in the Los Angeles region to consider race while conducting sweeps. According to Kavanaugh, “the officers immediately release the person they stopped if they discover that the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States.”

However, that is not at all the reality that many residents have encountered. Immigration officials have shot, tased, assaulted, tackled, and dragged Americans. Their necks have been kneeled on. They have been kept in their underpants outside in the rain. When the agents arrested the civilians, at least three of them were pregnant. As Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem watched, one of those ladies had already had her home’s door blasted off.

Approximately twenty Americans have reported being detained for almost a day without being able to contact their loved ones or attorneys. Every instance of agents detaining civilians against their will, whether during protests or immigration sweeps, was gathered and examined by ProPublica. They discovered almost 170 similar events in the first nine months of President Donald Trump’s second term, however the number is most likely not comprehensive.

Nearly 20 children, including two with cancer, are among the residents in custody. Until a congresswoman stepped in, four of them were detained for weeks with their illegal mother and without access to the family’s lawyer.