About a week after President Donald Trump took over, Jonathan Herrero was sitting in the Philadelphia car wash, where he was working when immigration agents broke.
The agents did not say why they were there, and did not show their badges, Guerrera reminded. Thus, a 21-year-old guy did not get the opportunity to explain that although his parents were from Mexico, he was born there in Philadelphia.
“They looked at me and made me raise my hands without letting me explain what I was from here,” Guerre said.
The agent directed the gun on Guerrera and handcuffed. Then they brought other car wash workers, including the father Guerre, who is not involved in the documents. When the agents started checking the identity of the person, they finally noticed that Guerrera was a citizen and quickly released him.
“I said,” Listen, man, I don’t know who these guys are and what they are doing, “Guerre said.” I just keep quiet. “
In less than two months, a small but sustainable blow on business such as Guerrera has taken place in Trump’s new Trump administration.
In Utah Agents pull up and detained A 20-year-old American after he relied on them. In New -Mexico, a Member Mescalero Apache Nation was more than two hours from the border interviewed by agents who demanded to see the passport. Earlier this month, Trump’s voter in Virginia tightened And handcuffed immigration agents who possess weapons.
In Texas, a 10-year-old citizen Restore from brain cancer He was detained at a border patrol checkpoint and eventually deported to Mexico with his unregistered parents and other civilian brothers and sisters in February. The family stated that she was committed to emergency checking in Houston when the border patrol agents ignored a letter to the hospital that the family had previously passed through the checkpoints. The agency’s press -secretary said the family account was inaccurate but refused to provide specifics.
It is unclear how many citizens have encountered the Trump administration so far. And while previous administrations mistakenly conducted Americans, there is also no number of these incidents.
The government does not release the figures about the citizens who have carried out the immigration authorities. Neither border patrol nor immigration, and customs execution engaged in immigration immigration would give the propublica number how many Americans were mistakenly detained.
Experts and supporters say it is clear that Trump’s aggressive immigration policy is for example ARREST ARTS For law enforcement agencies, it is likely that more citizens will be caught for immigration disassembly.
“It’s really all – not only disobedient people, or undocumented people who are threatened with violation of their freedom in such a mass deportation car,” said Cody Woffi, deputy director of immigrant rights in the US Union of Civil Liberties.
Answering a question about reports of Americans who are in the administration policy, the ICE press -secretary said in a written statement that the agents are allowed to ask citizens: “Any US immigration employee has the right, without an order, any alien who is believed to be an alien. The agency did not answer questions on specific cases.
The United States has survived the detention and even deportation of a large number of citizens. In the 1930s and 1940s, federal and local authorities forcibly expelled about 1 million Mexican Americans, including hundreds of thousands of children born in America.
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An immigration power that covers both Obama administrations asked the local authorities to detain 700 Americans. Meanwhile, the report on the account of the US government showed that the immigration authorities were asked to hold approximately 600 September citizens during Trump’s first term. Gao also found that Trump actually deported about 70 September citizens.
GAO report did not enter any individual cases. But lawsuits filed against federal immigration agencies tell in detail about cases where the plaintiffs received a settlement.
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When local MPs in Pierce, Washington, arrested Carlos Rios on suspicion of drunk driving in 2019, not even that he had a passport in the United States, can convince deputies – or glaciers who took him to the federal care – that he was a citizen.
Rios, who immigrated from Mexico in the 1980s and became a citizen in 2000, often carried his passport with him when he took the welded work on the coast security ship or the commercial work that took him into international waters. But no one listened to him when Rios repeatedly insisted that he was a citizen and asked the Pierce prison officials and ice officers to check his bag. Rios as a result passed throughout the week. Ice does not comment on the case.
Rios received a $ 125,000 settlement, but still does not rest in his detention.
“I don’t even need to close my eyes,” Rios said. “I remember every second.”
There are other, later cases. In January, in the last days of President Joseph Biden, a border patrol conducted raids in Kern District, California, more than four hours from the border.
Among the detainees was Ernest Compos, US citizen and owner of the Bakersfield landscape company. The agents stopped the compass truck and cut the tires when they refused to hand over the keys.
At this point, the compos began Record on your phone And he protested that he is a US citizen.
In the video, the agents said they were arrested composing for “alien smuggling”. (Its undocumented employee was in a truck with composing.) Border patrol said Local TV Station that agents were also concerned about trafficking in human beings.
Campos is not yet charged. His lawyer said he was spent four hours.
The compass case is mentioned in the recent trial of the Southern California and the united farms, who claim that the agents in the same operation were detained and handcuffed a 56-year-old grandmother, who is a legal permanent resident. The lawsuit states that the border patrol agents “went to a fishing expedition”, which profiled Latin American and agricultural workers.
Asked about the compass and trial, the border patrol said he did not comment on the current lawsuits.
Although there are a number of corrections that the government can make to limit the illegal detention of citizens, the immigration authorities have not spent often.
After a series of lawsuits against Obama administration ice Began Counseling staff with executives before detaining the one who claims to be a citizen, and not arrest anyone if the evidence of citizenship “exceed the evidence”. But the GAO report on the erroneous detention of citizens noted that the ICE is not actually learning the staff to follow the policy. (In response to the GAO ICE report he stated that he had revised his training materials. According to Propublica, the agents still fulfill this policy by defining citizenship)
Border patrols and ice are not even required to track how often they contain immigration citizens, Gao found. While icy agents may note in their database when someone they are investigating is a citizen, Gao has found that this is not required. As a result, the records are often mistaken and not excluded even after the agent has been said about the error. Someone misunderstood the ice database, once can be forced to deal with their citizenship for years.
Peter San Brown, another US citizen born in Philadelphia, was wrong over 20 years ago for Jamaica’s citizenship, who lives in the United States illegally. He was later arrested in 2018 for violating the conditional, immigration officials asked him to hold him despite his own records that documented a mistake, his lawyer said.
Brown has repeatedly insisted that he was a citizen, agents should be considered immediately.
“I am trying to get information concerning the unclean ice content,” Brown wrote on April 19, 2018, and in Monroe County in Florida. “I’m a US citizen … how is it possible?”
The ice eventually released it – after three weeks in custody.
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