US citizen detained by ICE in Florida released amid immigration crackdown

Writers on the Range: ICE is eroding the rule of law

“I got lucky,” José told me. “Because they got the wrong person.” José, 28, who did not give his last name for fear of retribution from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, said he was leaving his house in rural southwestern Colorado recently “when two federal SUVs pulled out, blocking my path in both directions.” Jose is not a criminal, though 10 years ago he crossed the border into the United States from Mexico without legal document…

DHS Confirms US Citizens Were Arrested, Says They’re at Fault

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials confirmed on April 21 that two U.S. citizens were recently arrested, but said the men told them they were illegally in the country. Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States, was detained after being stopped by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and telling the trooper he was in the United States illegally, a senior DHS official told The Epoch Times in an email. “Immedia…

Teenage U.S. Citizen Wrongfully Detained For Nearly 10 Days For Allegedly Crossing Into Arizona Unauthorized

Jose Hermosillo, a 19-year-old citizen from New Mexico was recently detained in Arizona for what DHS claims was entering the country unlawfully.

'Mind-boggling': DHS official ripped for saying wrongfully arrested US citizen claimed not to be a citizen

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin faced criticism on social media after stating that a United States citizen, who was wrongfully arrested by border authorities in Arizona earlier this month, was subjected to action because he had claimed not to be a U.S. citizen."The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entere…

Federal immigration authorities wrongfully detain U.S. citizens

Immigration law in the United States is based on the idea that all people, regardless of how they entered the country, have rights. Respecting the fundamental human rights of all people is not a "woke" idea invented by liberals in the last few years. The Refugee Act of 1980, which passed Congress unanimously, gives migrants inside the United States the right to claim asylum based on "a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religio…

U.S. Citizen Detained by Immigration Officials for 10 Days

Arizona Public Media: “Immigration officials in Tucson arrested the 19-year-old man from Albuquerque on April 8, saying he had entered the country illegally, before a judge dismissed his case on April 17.”