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> I am reading “potential citizen” as “a detainee who claims to be an American citizen whose citizenship status was not ascertained.” That's not what it means
by papercrane 1y ago
> I am reading “potential citizen” as “a detainee who claims to be an American citizen whose citizenship status was not ascertained.”
That's not what it means in this context. The GAO report is based on ICE's own database records, they found 70 deportees that records indicated they were potentially citizens.
> Law enforcement can get things wrong, but I haven’t read of any documented instances of this happening.
Wikipedia has an article that lists documented instances of citizens being removed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Americans_from_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Americans_from_...
- lurk2 1y ago> Wikipedia has an article that lists documented instances of citizens being removed. Thanks. It looks like the article lists 8 instances where deportation occurred. In 3 of those instances, the deportee sued and successfully returned, and in 2 they appear to have failed to return after their deportation. This is more like 3 / 5 though as the examples involving children were not technically deportations of the children but of the parents, who were not US citizens. So it’s more than 0, but so far as I can tell none of the counted deportations occurred when Trump was in office; the last one was in 2008.