GAO confirms ICE deported U.S. citizens due to systemic failures — and the agency still doesn’t know how many more it’s wrongly targeting

Between 2015 and 2020, ICE deported at least 70 people who were U.S. citizens, according to the GAO. That’s not just a bureaucratic mistake — it’s a constitutional violation.

U.S. citizens cannot be deported under civil immigration law. Yet GAO found that ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) lack the records to even know how many people they may have deported in error.

In total, the watchdog found that ICE arrested 674 potential U.S. citizens, detained 121, and deported 70 — all of whom may have been legally untouchable by immigration enforcement.

And the actual number could be much higher.

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Trying to find the illegal immigrants among the population is a difficult, time consuming task.

    A better approach is deporting everyone. The citizens would be able to return eventually ;/

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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      4 days ago

      Hah this is one of those “Robot, solve world suffering” type solutions. “Affirmative. There can be no suffering if there is no life. Proceeding to eradicate all life.”

      Can’t have illegal immigrants if you don’t have any people.