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.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I think you should probably edit the title to clarify this, it seems a bit misleading in the light of everything going on right now

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      community rules is not to editorialize titles, just use them verbatim. the problem i see with that is what you’re saying: the titles come pre-editorialized