
ICE can’t legally detain citizens at all. And yet they do. And they’ll hold you without due process until the statute of limitations is up so you can’t even sue them for it! (this has happened many times before the current gestapo style rein we have now so god knows how often it’s happening now too)
No! They cannot actually! They can only detain people who have been identified under an administrative warrant, or may detain non-citizen who have failed to follow section 262 of the INA (non citizens must carry required documentation) only for questioning (not arrest). Now the issue here is. Citizens are not required to carry documentation. So when asked by ice to display it, they don’t have it, because they don’t have to, and ice illegally detains them
We aren’t talking about what population makes up the most amount of illegal immigrants, we’re talking about who ICE deems flight risks. And shockingly, only deem brown people flight risks (even the ones that are “racially white” on paper, but just don’t look white enough, like people from Yemen and Türkiye. Oh a black immigrants make up 25% of all abuse claims despite only being 4% of the population in detention. But yeah no racist undertones there