Summary

Immigration officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports.

On 8 April, a border patrol official found Hermosillo “without the proper immigration documents” and claimed that the young American had admitted entering the US illegally from Mexico.

On 17 April, a federal judge dismissed his case. “He did say he was a US citizen, but they didn’t believe him.”

“Under the Trump administration’s theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back,” Mark Joseph Stern, a legal analyst for Slate, wrote on Bluesky. “This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?”

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    11 hours ago

    I thought people were bitching about federal workers resigning in protest instead of staying and trying to slow the damage.

    There’s without a doubt good people working for ICE, because the whole department isn’t just enforcers.

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      10 hours ago

      No. There are no good people working for ICE. They are hand picked to be racist and cruel.

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        8 hours ago

        So the mailroom clerk was handpicked to be racist and cruel? I’m sure the custodial staff and maintenance crew were handpicked to be racist and cruel too, right?

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      9 hours ago

      This is the thread for Facebook pitchforks, the thread for reason is that way —>