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struggle4progress

(127,086 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 12:17 PM Jun 12

ICE detaining US citizens and claiming documents aren't real

Strict Scrutiny
Jun 3, 2026

ICE detained a US citizen for 25 days and called her birth certificate fake. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick explains what these cases reveal about ICE's unchecked power.




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ICE detaining US citizens and claiming documents aren't real (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 12 OP
OMG, is she ever gonna be rich! -misanthroptimist Jun 12 #1
Not if it goes in front of a Trump judge edhopper Jun 12 #2
What is next? that they pick a typical metro area, pick a neighborhood in the usually democratic neighborhoods, SWBTATTReg Jun 12 #3
yep. rampartd Jun 12 #6
Apparently at least one US citizen actually got deported. LisaL Jun 12 #4
that will hapen with voting as well rampartd Jun 12 #5
ICE has more tools to research and verify a person's citizenship than any other agency. This is on purpose. ChicagoTeamster Jun 12 #7

SWBTATTReg

(26,495 posts)
3. What is next? that they pick a typical metro area, pick a neighborhood in the usually democratic neighborhoods,
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 12:37 PM
Jun 12

and then let ICE run wild?

LisaL

(47,958 posts)
4. Apparently at least one US citizen actually got deported.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 12:39 PM
Jun 12

There was a thread on here about that.

ChicagoTeamster

(1,450 posts)
7. ICE has more tools to research and verify a person's citizenship than any other agency. This is on purpose.
Fri Jun 12, 2026, 01:53 PM
Jun 12

ICE was originally created in response to the flood of foreign organized crime elements coming into the US illegally to fill the vacuum left after the FBI worked with local jurisdiction to take down US organized crime in the mid to late 90s. They dismantled the leadership of street gangs and even some mafia families leaving a void of leadership for the mid-layer workers to cater to America's huge market for drugs, prostitution, and low priced stolen goods. Instead of just distributing to the sellers in the retail drug outlets, the cartels came in and ran the operations. Foreign mafia groups moved into auto theft, retail shoplifting, and home burglary crews.

Instead of having to investigate and gather testimony and evidence to convict the foreign organized crime elements in US courts, it was easier to just deport them.

So ICE has the tools. They're using racial profiling as a means of intimidation.

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