Mini-Post: Citizens Rounded Up

ICE doesn't care who they snag... their only requirement is that they look Latino.

As Trump cracks down on immigration, U.S. citizens are among those snared

Recent reports of at least seven alleged cases have alarmed advocates and scholars who say they reveal the dangers of a system accelerating with few safeguards.

The Washington Post

By María Luisa Paúl

April 5, 2025

For one man, it happened when he stepped out of a Chicago pizza shop after an afternoon of job hunting. For a 10-year-old girl and her siblings, it began at a Border Patrol checkpoint in South Texas as their family rushed to the hospital. For a man in Virginia, it started with immigration agents surrounding his truck, guns in hand.

All those people are U.S. citizens who were detained, deported or otherwise swept up in immigration enforcement actions under the Trump administration’s intensifying crackdown.

Although wrongful detentions and deportations of U.S. citizens aren’t unheard-of, recent news reports of at least seven alleged cases have alarmed attorneys, civil rights advocates and immigration scholars who say they reveal the dangers of a system accelerating with few safeguards. As the Trump administration pushes for mass deportations, expands federal enforcement and shutters oversight offices, experts warn citizens are increasingly at risk of getting caught in the dragnet.

ProPublica reported that...

About a week after President Donald Trump took office, Jonathan Guerrero was sitting at the Philadelphia car wash where he works when immigration agents burst in.

The agents didn’t say why they were there and didn’t show their badges, Guerrero recalled. So the 21-year-old didn’t get a chance to explain that although his parents were from Mexico, he had been born right there in Philadelphia.

“They looked at me and made me put my hands up without letting me explain that I’m from here,” Guerrero said.

Yesterday, CBS News reported...

DHS officials have touted that more than 500 arrests have been made and Customs and Border Protection boats with armed agents were seen on the Chicago River, but that has also included detention of U.S. citizens without cause or justification, the fatal shooting of a Mexican immigrant in Franklin Park by ICE agents, arrests of non-criminals like a Back of the Yards tamale vendor and increasingly tense and volatile protests outside the ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois.

ICE agents even shot a pepper ball at a CBS News Chicago reporter unprovoked while she was checking on the situation at the Broadview facility. A criminal investigation has been opened. 

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This comes after two U.S. citizens were among five people arrested in an early morning ICE raid in Elgin, Illinois, on Tuesday, an operation that was shared on social media by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.   

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Video captured the moment ICE agents tried to take a father and his two sons into custody—leaving one man in the hospital, even though he's not in the country illegally.

Family members said that the man was released from the hospital after he said he was tased in the face while being taken into federal custody.

The only problem—he was born in Chicago. 

ICE has become a one big racist club of thugs... beating "foreigners" just like the Grenzpolizei and the Zollgrenzschutz did in Germany in the 1930s!