{{Short description|none}} {{Broader|Immigration policy of the second Trump administration|Immigration detention in the second Trump administration|Immigration detention in the United States}} {{Use American English|date=January 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox civil conflict | title = Immigration detentions of U.S. citizens in the second Trump administration | subtitle = Immigration enforcement actions involving U.S. citizens | partof = the deportation in the second Trump administration and immigration policy of the second Trump administration | image = 300px|alt=ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Los Angeles, California, June 12, 2025 | caption = ICE in Los Angeles, California (June 12, 2025) | date = January 20, 2025–present | place = United States (nationwide) | causes = Federal immigration enforcement policies and operations affecting U.S. citizens; mass-deportation drive and reduced safeguards described as leading to U.S. citizens being swept up in enforcement actions; right-wing populism, democratic backsliding in the United States | goals = Increased immigration enforcement and removals; expansion of detention and denaturalization initiatives (as described in reporting and administration statements) | methods = Raids and street detentions; arrests and "collateral arrests"; immigration detention; removal actions; denaturalization proceedings; notices instructing recipients to "self-deport" | status = Civil-rights crisis and congressional challenges; court and independent findings described as identifying legal violations in some enforcement practices; public controversy over proposals related to detaining citizens in foreign prisons and expanded denaturalization; mass violations of court orders by Federal government; mass arrests of protesters and political opposition. | side1 = {{Tree list}} * U.S. Federal government ** U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) *** U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) *** U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ** U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) {{Tree list/end}} | leadfigures1 = {{Tree list}} * '''White House:''' Donald Trump; JD Vance; Stephen Miller; Tom Homan; Marco Rubio ** '''DHS:''' Kristi Noem; Troy Edgar *** '''ICE:''' Todd Lyons; Charles Wall *** '''CBP:''' Rodney S. Scott; Joseph N. Mazzara; Gregory Bovino ** '''DOJ:''' Pam Bondi; Todd Blanche; Stanley Woodward Jr. {{Tree list/end}} | casualties1 = * '''Arrested/detained:''' none * '''Dead:''' none | side2 = U.S. citizens * Communities * Civil-rights advocates * Congressional oversight efforts * Political organizations | leadfigures2 = ''Non-centralized'' (multiple individuals and communities) | casualties2 = * '''Arrested/detained:''' 170+ citizens detained<ref name="ProPublica Foy 2025-10-16" /> * '''Dead:''' 3 U.S. citizens shot and killed by ICE and Border Patrol{{Efn|name=Citizen immigration deaths|U.S. citizen Keith Porter was killed in Los Angeles on December 31, 2025 by an ICE agent.<ref name="Porter Pulliam 2026-01-05">{{cite news |last1=Pulliam |first1=Tim |title=Community demands accountability at vigil for father of 2 killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge |url=https://abc7.com/post/keith-porter-death-community-demands-accountability-vigil-father-2-killed-off-duty-ice-agent-northridge/18353797/ |agency=ABC 7 |date=Jan 5, 2026}}</ref> U.S. citizen and Minneapolis, Minnesota resident Renée Good was shot and killed during an ICE operation on January 7, 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Yee |first1=Curtis |last2=Anderson |first2=Jim |last3=Clark |first3=Nell |last4=Burdette |first4=Sam |title=Hundreds protest in Minneapolis after ICE officer kills Renee Nicole Macklin Good |url=https://apnews.com/live/minneapolis-ice-shooting-updates |access-date=January 8, 2026 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Davis, Baran">{{cite news|title=ICE agent was not in the vehicle's path when he fired the fatal shots, video shows|last1=Davis|first1=Aaron C.|last2=Baran|first2=Jonathan|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 8, 2026|access-date=January 8, 2026|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/08/video-ice-shooting-minneapolis/|archive-date=January 8, 2026|archive-url=https://archive.today/20260108162705/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/08/video-ice-shooting-minneapolis/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Juliana |date=January 7, 2026 |title=What we know so far about the fatal ICE shooting of a Minneapolis woman |url=https://www.kcsm.org/npr-news/2026-01-07/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-fatal-ice-shooting-of-a-minneapolis-woman |access-date=January 8, 2026 |website=KCSM Jazz 91 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pattee |first=Ryan |date=January 7, 2026 |title=ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis |url=https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/ice-agent-shoots-kills-woman-in-minneapolis/ |access-date=January 8, 2026 |website=KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News |language=en-US |archive-date=January 8, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260108000145/https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/ice-agent-shoots-kills-woman-in-minneapolis/ |url-status=live }}</ref> U.S. citizen Alex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis by ICE agents on January 24, 2026.<ref name="Pretti Hildebrandt">{{Cite news |last1=Hildebrandt |first1=Eleanor |last2=Albertson-Grove |first2=Josie |date=January 25, 2026 |title=The day after in Minneapolis: Whittier neighborhood recovers after Pretti killing, protests |url=https://www.startribune.com/whittier-south-minneapolis-community-reacts-to-alex-pretti-killing-ice/601570728 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |work=Minnesota Star Tribune |archive-date=January 27, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260127094911/https://www.startribune.com/whittier-south-minneapolis-community-reacts-to-alex-pretti-killing-ice/601570728 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} }}
'''Immigration detentions of U.S. citizens in the second Trump administration''' were caused by U.S. immigration enforcement actions by agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and involved documented cases in which American citizens were stopped, detained, arrested, or held in custody in connection with immigration operations.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/><ref name="ProPublica Foy 2025-10-16"/> Reporting based on official records and court filings has described incidents in which enforcement personnel detained people without first confirming citizenship status, and in which citizens were allegedly subjected to enforcement actions later challenged as unlawful or unsupported by accurate official narratives.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/><ref name="Queally Mejia Trump 2025-07-23"/><ref name="Levin ICE 2025-07-28"/><ref name="Castle ICE citizens 2025-08-01"/>
Because the federal government did not maintain a comprehensive public count of citizen detentions, totals have largely been reconstructed through investigative reporting and litigation; ''ProPublica'' reported at least 170 citizen detentions through October 2025 and described cases involving alleged force and multi-day detention without access to counsel or communication.<ref name="ProPublica Foy 2025-10-16"/> Commentators and advocacy groups have argued that the pattern of detentions reflects racial profiling and has contributed to some citizens carrying passports or other proof of citizenship within the United States despite there being no general legal requirement to do so.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/><ref name="Montalvo ICE passports 2025-08-03"/><ref name="Tabafunda NWA ICE 2025-08-13"/> Incidents involved public officials and oversight activity. On September 18, 2025, multiple New York City and New York State elected officials were arrested and detained by ICE while seeking access to inspect immigration holding cells described in court proceedings as unsanitary and overcrowded.<ref name="ICE mass arrests elected officials 2025-09-18"/><ref name="ICE 11 - NYT 2025-09-18"/> Other reported cases have involved citizens detained during street encounters, workplace actions, and protests, including military veterans arrested during demonstrations against ICE activity.<ref name="ProPublica Foy 2025-10-16"/><ref name="Glantz Vets 2025-10-13"/><ref name="Tareen ICE 2025-03-17">{{Cite web|date=2025-03-17|title=ICE violated rights of a US citizen and 21 others during arrests, Chicago activists allege|last1=Tareen|first1=Sophia|url=https://apnews.com/article/immigration-arrests-chicago-complaint-bcc80d6aeeed824428431a318e427cd3|url-status=live|website=Associated Press|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318015053/https://apnews.com/article/immigration-arrests-chicago-complaint-bcc80d6aeeed824428431a318e427cd3|archive-date=2025-03-18}}</ref>
==Background== [[File:2025 visit to National Guard soldiers by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller at Union Station in Washington, D.C. on August 20 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Stephen Miller, Trump's Homeland Security Advisor, was cited by the Cato Institute as responsible for a three-fold increase in the targeting of Hispanic Americans for detention by ICE.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/> The Cato Institute reported that Miller urged raids at "Home Depots or 7-Elevens".<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/>]] thumb|US border czar Tom Homan confirmed "many" American citizens have been arrested by ICE under President Trump.<ref name="Homan loser ICE 2025-07-13"/>
Dentention is any form of restriction which prevents an individual from leaving a place, or where a person's liberty is restricted.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=2025 |title=Britannica Dictionary definition of DETAIN |url=https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/detain |encyclopedia=The Britannica Dictionary |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=2025-02-02}}</ref> Detentions can be as minor as a traffic stop. As such, detentions of U.S. citizens by law enforcement are extremely common. Most states do not require law enforcement agencies to document routine detentions. California is an exception. Its Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (RIPA) requires each state and local agency that employs peace officers to annually report every stop to the Attorney General. In 2024, about 5.1 million stops were performed by law enforcement in California alone.<ref>{{cite web |title=2026 RIPA Board Report |publisher=Office of the Attorney General, State of California Department of Justice |url=https://oag.ca.gov/ab953/board/reports |access-date=24 April 2026}}</ref> Nationwide, tens of millions of detentions result in over 10 million arrests.<ref>{{cite web |title=Crime in the United States. 2019 |url=https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/persons-arrested |publisher=FBI |access-date=24 April 2026}}</ref> In contrast, though the U.S. government {{As of|2025|lc=y}} does not track how many citizens have been detained by immigration agents, ''ProPublica'' reported at least 170 U.S. citizen detentions through October 2025. ''ProPublica'' further reports that Immigration agents do have authority to detain U.S. citizens in limited circumstances. Agents can hold people whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. They can also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfere with or assault officers.<ref name="ProPublica Foy 2025-10-16" />
Cato Institute states that U.S. citizens were tackled and arrested by immigration officials. Cato further states, "the Immigration and Nationality Act itself prohibits ICE and Border Patrol from even interrogating anyone about their right to be in the United States without a warrant or reasonable basis to believe that they are an alien."<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05">{{Cite web |last1=Bier |first1=David J. |date=2025-08-05 |title=One in Five ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order |url=https://www.cato.org/blog/1/5-ice-arrests-are-latinos-streets-no-criminal-past-or-removal-order |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807031623/https://www.cato.org/blog/1/5-ice-arrests-are-latinos-streets-no-criminal-past-or-removal-order |archive-date=2025-08-07 |website=Cato Institute}}</ref> The Act seems to state the opposite: "Any officer or employee of the Service authorized under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General shall have power without warrant to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States."<ref>{{cite web |title=8 USC 1357: Powers of immigration officers and employees |url=https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1357&num=0&edition=prelim |publisher=Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives |access-date=25 April 2026}}</ref>
ICE has confirmed in official court records to detaining people without first validating or confirming their citizenship status.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/> The ''Los Angeles Times'' reported three witnesses stated that then-acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli screamed at a prosecutor after members of a grand jury refused to indict U.S. citizens against the wishes of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.<ref name="Queally Mejia Trump 2025-07-23">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-23|title=Trump's top federal prosecutor in L.A. struggles to secure indictments in protest cases|last1=Queally|first1=James|last2=Mejia|first2=Brittny|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/protester-charges-essayli|url-status=live|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250728165257/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/protester-charges-essayli|archive-date=2025-07-28}}</ref> In one example, immigration officials stated Christian Cerna-Camacho, a U.S. citizen, told an immigration official he was going to "shoot him", physically attacked the official, and initiated a multiple-person foot chase, but video evidence revealed the foot chase did not happen, the ''Times'' reported. The DOJ proceeded with prosecuting Cerna-Camacho regardless.<ref name="Queally Mejia Trump 2025-07-23"/> On July 11, 2025, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong found roving immigration patrols were illegal due to violating standards of reasonable suspicion of crimes and that the Trump administration was criminally denying detained United States citizens access to required legal counsel.<ref name="Castle ICE citizens 2025-08-01">{{Cite web|date=2025-08-01|title=Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids|last1=Castle|first1=Cerise|url=https://capitalandmain.com/border-patrol-and-ice-agents-are-arresting-u-s-citizens-in-immigration-raids|url-status=live|website=Capital & Main|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250806144002/https://capitalandmain.com/border-patrol-and-ice-agents-are-arresting-u-s-citizens-in-immigration-raids|archive-date=2025-08-06}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' found most cases and proceedings filed by immigration officials against U.S. citizens to be false and misleading, and many were dismissed.<ref name="Levin ICE 2025-07-28">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-28|title=Justice department drops cases against LA protesters after officers caught making false claims|last1=Levin|first1=Sam|work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250728115446/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims|archive-date=2025-07-28}}</ref>
In August 2025, it was reported that non-white American citizens in California had begun carrying United States passports domestically in fear of ICE contact and detention.<ref name="Montalvo ICE passports 2025-08-03">{{Cite web |last1=Montalvo |first1=Melissa |date=2025-08-03 |title=Some Californians carry passports in fear of ICE. 'We're being racially profiled' |url=https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article311493445.html |url-status=live |website=Fresno Bee |access-date=February 20, 2026 |archive-date=August 4, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250804173312/https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article311493445.html }}</ref> Legal advisors have begun warning citizens in spite of this to consider carrying documents for their own safety, due to documented and ongoing incidents of ICE detaining U.S. citizens.<ref name="Montalvo ICE passports 2025-08-03" /> Naturalized citizens also began to warn each other and their communities to carry paper proof of who they are as self-defense against ICE.<ref name="Tabafunda NWA ICE 2025-08-13">{{Cite web |last1=Tabafunda |first1=James |date=2025-08-13 |title=Proof of belonging: Asian American citizens carry passports amid ICE fears |url=https://nwasianweekly.com/2025/08/proof-of-belonging-asian-american-citizens-carry-passports-amid-ice-fears/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250814143849/https://nwasianweekly.com/2025/08/proof-of-belonging-asian-american-citizens-carry-passports-amid-ice-fears/ |archive-date=2025-08-14 |website=Northwest Asian Weekly}}</ref> One naturalized citizen said she at first dismissed her daughters' advice to carry a passport, believing their family was not at risk, although she had heard about instances of others approached by ICE, taken, detained and deported. She only reconsidered when her white, American-born husband, who works in law enforcement, urged her and their daughters to carry proof.<ref name="Tabafunda NWA ICE 2025-08-13"/> While a Real ID compliant form of identification is required for domestic air travel, there is no law or legal requirement for U.S. citizens to carry proof of citizenship within the country.<ref name="Montalvo ICE passports 2025-08-03"/> A history teacher is reminded of Japanese-Americans being sent to internment camps, such as Manzanar.<ref name="Montalvo ICE passports 2025-08-03"/> ''Northwest Asian Weekly'' reported naturalized citizens, including those of Chinese, Korean, and Indian American heritage, leave their homes less frequently due to fear of contact by ICE agents and carry documents such as passports when they do.<ref name="Tabafunda NWA ICE 2025-08-13"/>
Research by ''ProPublica'' indicated that in the same year, more than 170 incidents of citizens being detained by immigration officials occurred.<ref name="ProPublica Foy 2025-10-16">{{Cite web|date=2025-10-16|title=We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They've Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.|last1=Foy|first1=Nicole|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will|url-status=live|website=ProPublica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251016162303/https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will|archive-date=2025-10-16}}</ref> In 2025, an additional twenty citizens reported being detained for longer than a day by immigration officials without access to a phone call, legal counsel, or in some cases with their family having no information at all of the whereabouts of their disappeared family.<ref name="ProPublica Foy 2025-10-16" /> Citizen military veterans of the United States Armed Forces have been prosecuted or sought damages in 2025. In October 2025, The Guardian identified eight instances in which U.S. military veterans had been detained for protesting ICE detentions and operations and accused them of being "Antifa-aligned terrorists".<ref name="Glantz Vets 2025-10-13" /> One U.S. Marine Corps veteran sued the government for being tackled from behind and beaten by ICE agents, an incident captured on video. A DHS spokesperson said he has been known to throw rocks at people and the building and falsify injuries using fake blood.<ref name="Glantz Vets 2025-10-13">{{cite news |last1=Glantz |first1=Aaron |title=Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/13/us-veterans-protest-ice-raids |access-date=13 October 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=13 October 2025}}</ref>
''ProPublica'' has documented that immigration agents have arrested at least 130 American citizens who have allegedly interfered with immigration operations or have been accused of assaulting officers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maney |first=Nicole Foy and Sarahbeth |date=2025-10-16 |title=More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They've Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will |access-date=2025-12-18 |website=ProPublica |language=en-US |archive-date=October 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251016162303/https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will |url-status=live }}</ref> At least 50 of these cases have yet to yield charges against the individuals or were dismissed outright.
===Quotas and disregard of probable cause or warrant orders=== ====Tom Homan==== Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, confirmed that ICE had made what he described as "collateral arrests" of "many" American citizens.<ref name="Homan loser ICE 2025-07-13"/>
According to Homan, ICE may detain people "based on the location, their occupation, their physical appearance, their actions like... the person walks away."<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/> Homan framed the sharing of the "Know Your Rights" information as "how to escape arrest." Homan said such knowledge was harmful to law enforcement activities.<ref name="BCC Homan 2025-01-29">{{Cite web |last1=Myers |first1=Quinn |last2=Lierderman |first2=Mack |date=2025-01-29 |title=Chicago 'Very Well Educated' In Defying ICE, Border Czar Says As Immigration Crackdown Leads To 100+ Arrests |url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/28/chicago-very-well-educated-in-defying-ice-border-czar-says-after-immigration-crackdown-leads-to-100-arrests/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250128220425/https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/28/chicago-very-well-educated-in-defying-ice-border-czar-says-after-immigration-crackdown-leads-to-100-arrests/ |archive-date=2025-01-28 |website=Block Club Chicago}}</ref>
On August 13, 2025, Homan claimed, "President Trump doesn't have a limitation on his authority to make this country safe. There's no limitation."<ref name="Benen Homan 2025-08-13">{{Cite web|date=2025-08-13|title=Accused of acting like a 'dictator,' Trump offers an unsettling response|last1=Benen|first1=Steve|authorlink1=Steve Benen|url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/accused-acting-dictator-trump-offers-unsettling-response-rcna224982|url-status=live|website=MSNBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250814154114/https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/accused-acting-dictator-trump-offers-unsettling-response-rcna224982|archive-date=2025-08-14}}</ref>
====Stephen Miller==== Stephen Miller, the homeland security advisor to Donald Trump, was reported to have ordered American security forces to arrest at least 3,000 people per day nationwide. According to these reports, ICE agents were directed by Miller to detain anyone they believed to be undocumented, regardless of legal or warrant status. Critics described these directives as racial profiling.<ref name="Rubinstein Retes ICE 2025-07-14">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-14|title=Disabled army veteran and US citizen detained in California ICE raid on farm released|last1=Rubinstein|first1=Peter|url=https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/disabled-army-veteran-citizen-detained-35556083|url-status=live|website=Irish Daily Star|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250715142012/https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/disabled-army-veteran-citizen-detained-35556083|archive-date=2025-07-15}}</ref>
The Cato Institute stated that there was a three-fold increase in the targeting of Hispanic Americans by ICE officials after Miller instructed the agency to stop "develop[ing] target lists of immigrants" and instead "go out on the street" to immediately detain people at "Home Depots or 7-Elevens".<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/>
==Targeted demographics== ===Hispanic and Latino=== ICE and the Federal government have been accused of specifically targeting Hispanic and Latino members of society, regardless of their citizenship or immigration status. as of July 2025, numerous Latino and Hispanic citizens of the United States have been detained, one for ten days.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-07-09|title=ICE accused of racial profiling in detentions of Latino U.S. citizens|last1=Contreras|first1=Russell|url=https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/ice-us-citizens-detention-racial-profiling|url-status=live|website=Axios|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250709103021/https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/ice-us-citizens-detention-racial-profiling|archive-date=2025-07-09}}</ref>
90% of targeted individuals were confirmed to be of Latin American heritage directly from analysis of data obtained from ICE officials.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/>
===Navajo Nation=== All Navajo people born within the United States are U.S. citizens due to the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and the United States Constitution. According to the Navajo Nation, over a dozen indigenous people had been questioned, detained, or asked to provide proof of citizenship by federal law enforcement during immigration raids in January 2025.<ref name="NY Mag 2025-05-04">{{cite news |last1=Danner |first1=Chas |date=2025-05-03 |title=All the U.S. Citizens Who've Been Caught Up in Trump's Immigration Crackdown |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tracking-us-citizens-children-detained-deported-ice-trump-updates.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250429210848/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tracking-us-citizens-children-detained-deported-ice-trump-updates.html |archive-date=2025-04-29 |access-date=2025-05-04 |work=New York Magazine}}</ref> In some cases, ICE officers were not aware that Certificates of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) are proof of citizenship, and one person was detained for nine hours.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rascouët-Paz |first=Anna |date=2025-01-30 |title=We Checked Reports that ICE Is Detaining Native Americans in Deportation Raids |url=https://www.snopes.com//news/2025/01/29/ice-detaining-native-americans-in-raids/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Snopes |language=en |archive-date=February 18, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260218123848/https://www.snopes.com//news/2025/01/29/ice-detaining-native-americans-in-raids/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In another case, eight Native Americans were detained for two hours after their workplace was raided. Their phones were confiscated, and one Navajo woman reported that she was not able to provide proof of citizenship until her phone was returned and she was able to text family, one of whom sent a copy of the woman's CDIB.{{citation needed |date=April 2026}}
Enough Navajos have been stopped by immigration authorities that the nation created a guide with tips about what to do if stopped, encouraging people to always carry identification and that families alert their children about what to do, including having them memorize their Social Security numbers.<ref name="Elassar-2025">{{Cite web |last=Elassar |first=Alaa |date=2025-01-27 |title=Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=CNN |language=en |archive-date=January 27, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260127011009/https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump |url-status=live }}</ref> Other tribes have also issued tips and warnings,<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Alberty |first1=Erin |last2=Contreras |first2=Russell |date=2025-01-29 |title=Native American tribes say ICE harassing members amid raids |url=https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/native-american-immigration-raids-navajo-nation |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Axios |language=en |archive-date=February 4, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260204101301/https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/native-american-immigration-raids-navajo-nation |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''Native News Online'' published an article, "Native Americans and Immigration Enforcement–Know Your Rights."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Native American Rights Fund |date=2025-02-06 |title=Native Americans and Immigration Enforcement – Know Your Rights |url=https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/native-americans-and-immigration-enforcement-know-your-rights |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Native News Online |language=en-GB |archive-date=February 2, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260202092152/https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/native-americans-and-immigration-enforcement-know-your-rights |url-status=live }}</ref> Navajo Arizona state senator Theresa Hatathlie suggested that tribes contact DHS to share what their travel enrollment card and CDIB look like.<ref name="Elassar-2025"/>
===Puerto Ricans=== Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens as established by the Jones-Shafroth Act (1917), which made Puerto Rico a U.S. territory.<ref name="Jones-Shafroth Act">{{Cite web |title=Research Guides: A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil Rights Cases and Events in the United States: 1917: Jones-Shafroth Act |url=https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/jones-shafroth-act |access-date=2025-06-06 |website=Library of Congress |language=en |archive-date=February 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260220025649/https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/jones-shafroth-act |url-status=live }}</ref> In spite of their citizenship, ICE raids detained and arrested Puerto Ricans under the second Trump administration in multiple incidents. In one, a U.S. military veteran from Puerto Rico was detained on January 23, 2025, after an ICE raid at a seafood warehouse in Newark, New Jersey. The veteran worked there as a warehouse manager. The co-owner of the business said that ICE appeared to be targeting people who look Hispanic,<ref name="NY Mag 2025-05-04" /> while ignoring his white employees.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Gamboa |first1=Suzanne |last2=Acevedo |first2=Nicole |date=2025-01-28 |title=Trump immigration raids snag U.S. citizens, including Native Americans, raising racial profiling fears |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-immigration-raids-citizens-profiling-accusations-native-american-rcna189203 |access-date=2025-06-06 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=February 18, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260218055402/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-immigration-raids-citizens-profiling-accusations-native-american-rcna189203 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In another notable incident, three members of a Puerto Rican family were taken to a detention center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on January 27, 2025, after an immigration officer heard one of them speaking Spanish. They were released prior to processing when they provided documentation. ICE claimed the incident did not happen. There have been a significant upswing in passport requests from Puerto Ricans to provide documentation to satisfy immigration officers.<ref name="Bulwark citizens 2025-02-07">{{Cite web |last=Carrasquillo |first=Adrian |title=Trump's Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It |url=https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-deportation-dragnet-widens-catches-puerto-ricans-american-citizens |access-date=2025-06-06 |website=The Bulwark |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207193711/https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-deportation-dragnet-widens-catches-puerto-ricans-american-citizens|archive-date=2025-02-07}}</ref>
==Identified citizens== ===Arrest of 15 New York city and state officials by ICE=== {{multiple image | perrow = 2 | total_width = 300 | align = right | footer = Jumaane Williams,<ref name="ICE mass arrests elected officials 2025-09-18">{{Cite magazine|date=2025-09-18|title=These Are the 15 New York Officials ICE and NYPD Arrested in Manhattan; More than a dozen elected officials were arrested in or around 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions.|last1=Cameron|first1=Dell|url=https://www.wired.com/story/ice-mass-arrests-new-york-officials/|url-status=live|magazine=Wired|quote=Police arrested more than a dozen New York state and city elected officials Thursday at 26 Federal Plaza, the Manhattan immigration court and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, many as they pressed to gain access to the building's 10th-floor lockup, where recent court rulings—including a temporary restraining order—directed ICE not to cram immigrants into overcrowded, unsanitary conditions.<p>The lawmakers and other officials, arrested around 3:45 pm local time, say they were "attempting to conduct oversight" following claims that people appearing for court hearings were being confined for hours or days without proper food, medical care, or contact with attorneys.</p>|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-date=September 18, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250918232507/https://www.wired.com/story/ice-mass-arrests-new-york-officials/}}</ref> Julia Salazar, Jabari Brisport, and Robert Carroll were among New York State elected officials arrested and detained by ICE.<ref name="ICE mass arrests elected officials 2025-09-18" /> | image1 = 142 Jumaane Williams (cropped).jpg | width1 = 150 | image2 = NY State Senator Julia Salazar during Senate Session at the NY State Capitol, Albany NY (cropped).jpg | width2 = 150 | image3 = (12-28-20) Newly Elected NYS Senator Jabari Brisport (cropped).jpg | width3 = 150 | image4 = Robert C Carroll.jpg | width4 = 150 }}
Fifteen elected Democratic Party New York area officials were arrested by ICE in New York City on September 18, 2025. The elected officials went to the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City, which holds detained immigrants. Due to the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at the buildings, courts have ordered ICE not to hold humans there as prisoners, but ICE continued to do so. The elected officials stated that they were "attempting to conduct oversight", and held a sit-in, during which they chanted and unfurled a banner that read "NYers against ICE". They were arrested at around 3:45 p.m.<ref name="ICE mass arrests elected officials 2025-09-18" /><ref name="ICE 11 - NYT 2025-09-18">{{Cite web|date=2025-09-18|title=11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells|last1=Ferré-Sadurní|first1=Luis|last2=Parnell|first2=Wesley|last3=Latson|first3=Samantha|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/elected-officials-arrested-ice-new-york.html|url-status=live|website=New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250918213330/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/elected-officials-arrested-ice-new-york.html|archive-date=2025-09-18|quote=Federal officers arrested 11 Democratic elected officials inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan on Thursday after the officials demanded access to cells used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to detain migrants.<P> The officials, including Brad Lander, the city comptroller, and city and state lawmakers, were arrested after they showed up at 26 Federal Plaza and sought to inspect the 10th-floor holding cells, which are operated by ICE and closed to the public. The cells have drawn scrutiny following complaints of unsanitary and overcrowded conditions, leading a federal judge to order ICE to improve the conditions last month.</p>}}</ref>
The elected officials include New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, New York State Senate members Jabari Brisport, Gustavo Rivera, and Julia Salazar; as well as New York State Assembly members Robert Carroll, Emily Gallagher, Jessica González-Rojas, Marcela Mitaynes, Steven Raga, Tony Simone, Phara Souffrant Forrest, and Claire Valdez; as well as New York City Council members Tiffany Cabán and Sandy Nurse; and Jumaane Williams, the New York City Public Advocate, who is first in line to succeed the mayor of New York City.<ref name="ICE mass arrests elected officials 2025-09-18" /><ref name="ICE 11 - NYT 2025-09-18" />
===Willy Aceituno=== A citizen of the U.S. born in Honduras, Willy Aceituno, stated that he was stopped by U.S. Border Patrol agents in a Charlotte, North Carolina parking lot on November 15, 2025. After a "playful" engagement with federal agents for 15 minutes, which he said he did to distract them from migrants in the vicinity, he confirmed his U.S. citizenship. He entered his truck but was confronted by a second group of agents who banged on and broke his window, removed him from his truck, handcuffed him and placed him in a vehicle for 20 minutes before releasing him.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Medina |first1=Eduardo |last2=Mokam |first2=Bernard |title=U.S. Border Patrol Launches Operation in Charlotte |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/us-border-patrol-charlotte-nc-immigration.html |access-date=16 November 2025 |work=New York Times |date=15 November 2025 |archive-date=January 22, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260122092130/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/us-border-patrol-charlotte-nc-immigration.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Nasra Ahmed=== On January 14, 2026, Somali-American Saint Paul native Nasra Ahmed was leaving her apartment to pick up a prescription when two Somali men ran past her, pursued by federal agents. Despite showing the agents her ID, she was detained and put in a detention cell alongside a Native American woman. During her time in custody, Ahmed suffered a seizure and was hospitalized. She was released after two days in custody.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Melo |first1=Frederick |title=St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention |url=https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/st-paul-woman-a-u-s-citizen-recounts-her-two-days-in-detention/ |website=Twin Cities Pioneer Press |access-date=February 20, 2026 |archive-date=January 18, 2026 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20260118180150/https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/st-paul-woman-a-u-s-citizen-recounts-her-two-days-in-detention/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On January 21, she made a viral speech about her identity at a press conference, explaining: "[Being Somali] is kind of like bananas and rice. People don't think you can eat bananas with rice, but that's what it's like to be Somali and American." On January 28, Ahmed was arrested again for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement, along with 15 others, while participating in an anti-ICE protest.<ref>{{cite news |author=Sohini Sengupta |title=Viral 'bananas and rice' woman arrested as Minneapolis protests turn explosive |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/viral-bananas-and-rice-woman-arrested-as-minneapolis-protests-turn-explosive/ar-AA1VfXHt |work=MSN |date=January 29, 2026 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Shamik Banerjee |title=Who is Nasra Ahmed and why was the viral 'banana and rice' woman arrested in Minneapolis |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/who-is-nasra-ahmed-and-why-was-the-viral-banana-and-rice-woman-arrested-in-minneapolis-101769642518110.html |work=Hindustan Times |date=January 29, 2026 }}</ref>
===Rodrigo Almendarez=== A natural-born citizen of Canoga Park, California, Rodrigo Almendarez, was detained by ICE agents at his place of employment in Simi Valley in August 2025. The agents did not identify themselves to Almendarez as ICE agents, or speak to him before handcuffing and detaining him on sight. The action against Almendarez was so aggressive that ICE agents failed to put their truck into park, leaving it in drive mode with brakes disabled. This caused the agents to have to chase their own vehicle running by foot down the street to catch it as well; the vehicle then impacted, shattering a side mirror. Almendarez was ultimately released without charge after the agents viewed his ID and were challenged by a coworker.<ref name="Silva ICE 2025-08-22">{{Cite web|date=2025-08-22|title=US citizen says he was racially profiled as federal agents detained him outside his job|last1=Silva|first1=Gina|url=https://www.foxla.com/news/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-simi-valley-rodrigo-almendarez|url-status=live|website=KTTV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250823180144/https://www.foxla.com/news/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-simi-valley-rodrigo-almendarez|archive-date=2025-08-23}}</ref>
===Cary López Alvarado=== U.S. citizen Cary López Alvarado was arrested by ICE agents alongside two undocumented immigrants, one of whom was her partner, on June 8, 2025. López Alvarado was born in Los Angeles at Hollywood Hospital along with her cousin Alberto Sandoval, who is also a citizen. She reported experiencing intense pains in her stomach after she was arrested and later went to the hospital to be monitored after her release.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-11 |title=A pregnant U.S. citizen went to the hospital after immigration agents detained her |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/pregnant-us-citizen-went-hospital-immigration-agents-detained-rcna212033 |access-date=2025-12-18 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=February 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260220022914/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/pregnant-us-citizen-went-hospital-immigration-agents-detained-rcna212033 |url-status=live }}</ref> The DHS said that Alvarado was arrested for blocking access to a car containing the undocumented immigrants; Alvarado denied resisting, saying, "I can't fight back; I'm pregnant." Footage shows her telling agents that they needed to leave because they were on private property. Other footage shows her refusing to "move away" upon an agent's request. Alvarado was released from custody not long after her arrest.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rahman |first=Billal |date=June 11, 2025 |title=ICE Detains Heavily Pregnant US Citizen—'Shield My Stomach' |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detain-pregnant-us-citizen-california-woman-cary-lopez-alvarado-2083785 |access-date=June 12, 2025 |website=Newsweek |archive-date=June 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250612052934/https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detain-pregnant-us-citizen-california-woman-cary-lopez-alvarado-2083785 |url-status=live }}</ref>
During the incident with ICE, Alvarado was "violently detained", shackled in chains across her pregnant torso, and went into labor with the baby prematurely due to the attack by federal agents.<ref name="Marnin ICE baby 2025-08-26">{{Cite web|date=2025-08-26|title=Pregnant US citizen arrested by ICE went into labor prematurely in CA, claim says|last1=Marnin|first1=Julia|url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article311854422.html|url-status=live|website=Sacramento Bee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250826232810/https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article311854422.html|archive-date=2025-08-26}}</ref>
===Jairin Anzaldúa-Ervin=== Jairin Anzaldúa-Ervin, age 29, of Gervais, Oregon was arrested by ICE agents who claimed that he threw a water bottle at them during a protest in Portland, Oregon on October 4, 2025. Video online showed ICE agents dog-piling on top of him and placing their knees on his ribs during his arrest. His wife was tracking his phone's location while he was at the protest, and stated that the tracking ceased to show his location around 1:00 a.m. Nearly 20 hours later, she learned what had happened when she saw videos of his arrest online. A federal magistrate allowed Anzaldúa-Ervin to be charged with alleged assault on a federal officer.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2025-10-06|title=Oregon man accused of throwing water bottle at feds during ICE protest; wife claims authorities 'disappeared' him for hours|url=https://www.koin.com/news/protests/oregon-man-accused-of-throwing-water-bottle-at-feds-during-ice-protest-wife-claims-authorities-disappeared-him-for-hours/}}{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> Anzaldúa-Ervin pleaded guilty and was sentenced December 16 to two days time served, a $25 fine, and one year of probation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Poehler |first1=Bill |title=Gervais man sentenced for throwing water bottle at officer in Portland |url=https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2025/12/17/gervais-man-sentenced-throwing-bottle-officer-ice-portland/87812487007/ |access-date=22 April 2026 |publisher=Statesman Journal |date=17 December 2025}}</ref>
===Bachir Atallah=== Naturalized U.S. citizen and Trump supporter Bachir Atallah was detained by the CBP in April 2025 while returning from a family trip to Canada.<ref name="Rahman ICE 2025-04-17">{{Cite web|date=2025-04-17|title=Exclusive: Trump Voter 'Almost Died' After Being Detained by Border Agents|last1=Rahman|first1=Billal|url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-voter-bachir-atallah-detained-border-agents-2060893|url-status=live|website=Newsweek|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250417140237/https://www.newsweek.com/trump-voter-bachir-atallah-detained-border-agents-2060893|archive-date=2025-04-17}}</ref> Atallah confirmed to the officials that he had a Redress Control Number issued by the Department of Homeland Security, which confirms the specific identity of a citizen who has been repeatedly targeted by immigration officials.<ref name="NHPR ICE 2025-04-18">{{Cite web|date=2025-04-18|title=A New England attorney is pursuing legal action after being held at the Vermont-Canadian border|last1=Ganley|first1=Rick|last2=McIntyre|first2=Mary|url=https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-04-18/a-new-england-attorney-is-pursuing-legal-action-after-being-held-at-the-vermont-canadian-border|url-status=live|website=New Hampshire Public Radio|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250419012953/https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-04-18/a-new-england-attorney-is-pursuing-legal-action-after-being-held-at-the-vermont-canadian-border|archive-date=2025-04-19}}</ref> Despite this, Atallah was handcuffed and separated from his wife, also a U.S. citizen, at gunpoint.<ref name="Rahman ICE 2025-04-17" /> The officials refused to grant Atallah access to legal counsel for over three hours,<ref name="NHPR ICE 2025-04-18" /> despite his repeated requests for access to legal representation.<ref name="Tran ICE 2025-04-15" />
Atallah reported to NBC10 Boston that he was forced under medical duress to write a statement that he authorized access to his electronic devices.<ref name="Tran ICE 2025-04-15">{{Cite web|date=2025-04-15|title='Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada|last1=Tran|first1=Jericho|url=https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/treated-like-a-criminal-us-citizen-says-he-was-detained-returning-from-canada/3686188/|url-status=live|website=NBC10 Boston|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250626215032/https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/treated-like-a-criminal-us-citizen-says-he-was-detained-returning-from-canada/3686188/|archive-date=2025-06-26}}</ref> Despite being an attorney and citing attorney-client privilege, the officials coerced Atallah into surrendering access to his computer and email systems.<ref name="Rahman ICE 2025-04-17" /> Emergency medical reports from the time indicated he began to experience medical distress.<ref name="Rahman ICE 2025-04-17" />
===Emerson Ayala=== In Danbury Township, Ohio, U.S. citizen Emerson Ayala was detained by Border Patrol while working at his construction job on June 19, 2025. Ayala was recording the detention of some of his coworkers on his cellphone, and then approached by a Border Patrol agent, who asked, "Are you illegal?" Ayala was wearing a construction safety harness, which a Border Patrol agent grabbed. The agent did not inform Ayala that he was being detained before putting his hands on him. Ayala was transported to Ottawa County Jail and charged with allegedly assaulting a federal agent.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-06-23|title=Did Border Patrol arrest U.S. citizen?|last1=Burton|first1=Terry|url=https://norwalkreflector.com/news/600149/did-border-patrol-arrest-us-citizen/|url-status=live|website=Norwalk Reflector|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250827025248/https://norwalkreflector.com/news/600149/did-border-patrol-arrest-us-citizen/|archive-date=2025-08-27}}</ref>
===Elianne Bahena and Jacqueline Lopez=== On October 22, 2025, ICE detained seven people, including Elianne Bahena and Jacqueline Lopez, two members of alderman Michael Rodriguez's staff who are U.S. citizens, in a raid on the border of Little Village, Chicago, and Cicero, Illinois.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Garcia Hernandez |first1=Francia|last2=Boyle |first2=Colin|date=2025-10-22 |title=Alderperson's Staffers — Both U.S. Citizens — Detained By Border Patrol Amid Little Village Raids|url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/22/border-patrol-agents-descend-on-little-village-sparking-fury-fear-in-neighborhood/|work=Block Club Chicago}}</ref>
===Ras Baraka=== {{main|Newark immigration detention center incident}}
thumb|Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was detained by ICE. Baraka is a U.S. citizen.
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey was detained by ICE. On May 9, 2025, Ras Baraka was arrested by agents outside of the Delaney Hall ICE facility. Interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said Baraka was arrested because he "committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newark Mayor Ras Baraka released after being arrested at ICE detention center |url=https://abc7ny.com/post/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-arrested-ice-detention-center-delaney-hall/16368834/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=abc7ny.com |date=9 May 2025 |archive-date=February 17, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260217212746/https://abc7ny.com/post/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-arrested-ice-detention-center-delaney-hall/16368834/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Baraka attempted to join a congressional delegation conducting oversight, was denied entry by an ICE official, and then Baraka exited the secure area of the facility and returned to stand on public property; however, minutes later, the agents surrounded Baraka, handcuffed him, and brought him inside the facility.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jack |first1=Dominique |last2=Rosoff |first2=Henry |last3=Wassef |first3=Mira |title=Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested at ICE detention facility in NJ |url=https://pix11.com/news/local-news/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-taken-into-custody-by-ice-in-new-jersey/ |access-date=May 10, 2025 |work=pix11.com |date=May 9, 2025 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
In a press conference after the arrest, Democratic House representative Rob Menendez said ICE agents "feel no restraint on what they should be doing, and that was shown in broad daylight today."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tully|last2=Ferré-Sadurní|last3=McFadden|first1=Tracey|first2=Luis|first3=Alyce|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/nyregion/newark-ice-protest-arrest-ras-baraka.html|title=Newark's Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center|website=The New York Times|date=May 9, 2025|access-date=May 9, 2025|archive-date=May 9, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250509200432/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/nyregion/newark-ice-protest-arrest-ras-baraka.html|url-status=live}}</ref> At Baraka's initial court appearance, he was charged with allegedly trespassing and was later released on the same day of his arrest.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Newark, N.J. Mayor Ras Baraka arrested at ICE facility, charged with trespassing |last=Prussin |first=Mark |date=2025-05-10 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mayor-ras-baraka-arrested-new-jersey-ice-facility/ |access-date=2025-05-10 |last2=Reid |first2=Alecia |publisher=WCBS-TV}}</ref> After release, he told waiting supporters, "The reality is this: I didn't do anything wrong."<ref>{{Cite web |agency=Associated Press |date=2025-05-09 |title=Newark mayor released after arrest at immigration facility protest, says, 'I didn't do anything wrong' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/us/new-jersey-mayor-arrested-at-ice-detention-center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250510014328/https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/us/new-jersey-mayor-arrested-at-ice-detention-center|archive-date=2025-05-10|access-date=2025-05-10 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref>
===Arnoldo Bazan=== Immigration agents pulled over 16-year-old Bazan and his undocumented father in Houston on October 23, 2025. Bazan's father fled into a nearby restaurant supply store, with Bazan filming on his phone. Agents restrained Bazan, with one putting their knee on his back and another putting him in a chokehold, against DHS regulations.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Foy |first1=Nicole |last2=Funk |first2=McKenzie |title=We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens |website=ProPublica |access-date=January 19, 2026 |date=January 13, 2026 |archive-date=January 19, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260119085925/https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Joe Botello=== Joe Botello, a citizen born in Texas, was detained by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE agents in Elgin, Illinois, on September 16, 2025.<ref name="Leventis Lourgos ICE 2025-09-17">{{Cite web|date=2025-09-17|title=Local immigration advocates outraged after video of a U.S. citizen briefly detained during an Elgin raid is posted online by DHS Secretary Noem|last1=Leventis Lourgos|first1=Angie|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/17/elgin-ice-raid-noem-video/|url-status=live|website=Chicago Tribune|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250918145639/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/17/elgin-ice-raid-noem-video/|archive-date=2025-09-18}}</ref> Botello informed ICE of his citizenship and birth status with documentation prior to his detention.<ref name="Ríos Morales ICE 2025-09-17">{{Cite web|date=2025-09-17|title=ICE Raid Led by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in Suburban Chicago Results in Five Arrests, Including Two U.S. Citizens|last1=Ríos Morales|first1=Héctos |url=https://www.latintimes.com/ice-raid-led-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-suburban-chicago-results-five-arrests-including-two-us-589670|url-status=live|website=The Latin Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250918150428/https://www.latintimes.com/ice-raid-led-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-suburban-chicago-results-five-arrests-including-two-us-589670|archive-date=2025-09-18}}</ref> Noem herself was personally present at Botello's capture.<ref name="Ríos Morales ICE 2025-09-17" /><ref name="Leventis Lourgos ICE 2025-09-17" /> The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Federal agents forced their way into the citizen's home before 5:30 a.m. local time.<ref name="Ríos Morales ICE 2025-09-17" /> Noem posted a video that included Botello's detention on social media, claiming, "DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI and felony stalking."<ref name="Leventis Lourgos ICE 2025-09-17" /> Botello had not committed a crime and was later released; Noem did not clarify in her posting of his arrest and detention that Botello was an innocent citizen.<ref name="Leventis Lourgos ICE 2025-09-17" /> The Chicago Tribune revealed Federal records proving DHS and ICE had kept Botello under surveillance prior to detaining him.<ref name="Leventis Lourgos ICE 2025-09-17" /> Federal agents also detained another citizen during the raid on Botello's home.<ref name="Ríos Morales ICE 2025-09-17" />
===Debbie Brockman=== Debbie Brockman, a U.S. citizen and an employee of WGN-TV, was detained by federal agents in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago on October 10, 2025. She was detained for seven hours after videotaping agents detaining a Latino man and asking if they had a warrant. DHS alleges that Brockman threw objects at a Border Patrol vehicle.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Flores|first1=Christine|date=2025-10-10|title=WGN employee detained amid ICE activity on Chicago's North Side, later released|url=https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/wgn-employee-detained-amid-ice-activity-on-chicagos-north-side-later-released/|work=WGN 9|archive-date=October 11, 2025|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251011020636/https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/wgn-employee-detained-amid-ice-activity-on-chicagos-north-side-later-released/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Garcia Hernandez|first1=Francia|date=2025-10-10|title=WGN Staffer Detained By Border Patrol Agents In Lincoln Square, Neighbors Say|url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/10/wgn-staffer-detained-by-border-patrol-agents-in-lincoln-square-neighbors-say/|work=Block Club Chicago|archive-date=October 10, 2025|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251010213804/https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/10/wgn-staffer-detained-by-border-patrol-agents-in-lincoln-square-neighbors-say/|url-status=live}}</ref> On October 14, Brockman's attorney released a statement saying that Brockman was pursuing legal action against ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for assault and wrongful arrest.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Castillo |first1=Gabriel|date=2025-10-15 |title=WGN employee 'violently assaulted' by Border Patrol agents, attorneys say|url=https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/wgn-debbie-brockman-border-patrol-statement/|work=News Nation}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Baragona |first1=Justin |last2=Woodward |first2=Alex |title=WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/chicago-ice-wgn-debbie-brockman-b2843486.html |access-date=13 October 2025 |work=The Independent |date=10 October 2025}}</ref> As of April 2026, there is no record of such a lawsuit being filed in federal court.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Channick |first1=Robert |title=New round of WGN-TV layoffs includes producer whose rough ICE detention went viral |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/wgn-tv-layoffs-ice-detainee/ |access-date=6 April 2026 |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=February 26, 2026}}</ref>
===Rev. Kenny Callaghan=== Rev. Kenny Callaghan, a southern California native,<ref>{{cite web |title=Rev. Kenny Callaghan |url=https://www.agcmcc.org/newly-elected-pastor/ |website=www.agcmcc.org |publisher=All God's Children Metropolitan Community Church |access-date=10 January 2026 |archive-date=February 7, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260207184004/https://www.agcmcc.org/newly-elected-pastor/ |url-status=live }}</ref> stated that on January 7, 2026, ICE detained him as he was observing a protest near where ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renée Good. Callaghan observed ICE agents approach a young Hispanic woman, and told them "take me instead of her, I am not afraid of you", as the agents "pointed a gun in [his] face". ICE agents handcuffed him, placed him in an ICE vehicle and asked for his identification and cell phone. When he asked if he was being arrested, they walked away. Callaghan stated ICE agents asked him, "are you afraid yet?" and remarked, "well, you're white, you wouldn't be fun anyway." After about 30 minutes Callaghan was released without charge.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyncB-hBhMo&t=75 |title=Detained pastor says ICE let him go because he's White |date=2026-01-09 |last= |publisher=KARE 11 |access-date=2026-02-18 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wiggins |first1=Christopher |title=Gay Minneapolis pastor says ICE agent pointed gun at his face, blocks from Renee Good's killing |url=https://www.advocate.com/news/detained-pastor-ice-shooting |access-date=10 January 2026 |work=Advocate |date=9 January 2026}}</ref>
===Jose Castillo=== American citizen Jose Castillo was pursued and arrested by U.S. Border Patrol officers in Sacramento, California, during immigration actions on July 17, 2025. Castillo was accused by Border Patrol agents of slashing one of their tires.<ref name="Bernstein Castillo 2025-07-18">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-18|title=Federal officers arrested a US citizen in Sacramento raid — was it legal?|last1=Bernstein|first1=Sharon|url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article310948360.html|url-status=live|website=Sacramento Bee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250722211551/https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article310948360.html|archive-date=2025-07-22}}</ref> Castillo pleaded guilty to the “willful injury and depredation” of U.S. property and sentenced to one year of probation and restitution of $478.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miranda |first1=Mathew |title=No jail time for US citizen arrested in Sacramento immigration raid at Home Depot |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article315401533.html |access-date=22 April 2026 |publisher=The Sacramento Bee |date=14 April 2026}}</ref>
===Jose Castro=== ICE and CBP detained naturalized U.S. citizen Jose Castro, who is originally from Ecuador, on June 18, 2025, in Rochester, New York. During the arrest, recorded by tourists and onlookers, the agents refused identification from Castro and detained him regardless.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-06-19|title=CAUGHT ON CAMERA: U.S. citizen detained during ICE traffic stop|last1=Calzetoni|first1=Natalie|url=https://13wham.com/news/local/rochester-traffic-stop-raises-questions-after-us-citizens-arrest-brown-street-border-patrol-immigration-and-customs-enforcement|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250619010257/https://13wham.com/news/local/rochester-traffic-stop-raises-questions-after-us-citizens-arrest-brown-street-border-patrol-immigration-and-customs-enforcement|archive-date=2025-06-19}}</ref>
===Wilmer Chavarria=== Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of schools for Winooski, Vermont and a U.S. citizen, was detained by CBP officials and interrogated at a Houston airport on July 21, 2025. Chavarria was returning from a visit to Nicaragua with his husband, who was not detained during the incident. Chavarria was born and raised in Nicaragua, but became a U.S. citizen in 2018. Officials told Chavarria that he had no rights, disputed that he was married, and challenged his employment as an educator in Vermont. Afterward, his Global Entry status to travel out of the United States was revoked with no explanation given.<ref name="Tompkins ICE 2025-07-22">{{Cite web |last1=Tompkins |first1=Lucy |date=2025-07-22 |title=Winooski Superintendent Detained, Questioned by Border Officials |url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/winooski-superintendent-detained-questioned-by-border-officials-44054967 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250722191926/https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/winooski-superintendent-detained-questioned-by-border-officials-44054967 |archive-date=2025-07-22 |website=Seven Days}}</ref> Chavarria is a board member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation.<ref name="LANL Chavarria">{{Cite web|title=Wilmer Chavarria - LANL Foundation|url=https://lanlfoundation.org/person/wilmer-chavarria/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810135704/https://lanlfoundation.org/person/wilmer-chavarria/|archive-date=2022-08-10}}</ref> In December 2025, Chavarria filed a lawsuit challenging the warrantless search and seizure of electronic devices at the border.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vermont school superintendent challenges policies permitting warrantless search and seizure of electronic devices at the border |url=https://pacificlegal.org/case/chavarria-border-searches-fourth-amendment/ |website=Pacific Legal Foundation |access-date=22 April 2026}}</ref>
===Jeury Concepcion=== On May 6, 2026, ICE agents tackled and detained 19-year-old U.S. citizen Jeury Concepcion in the Bronx, putting him in a vehicle. Video of his detainment was captured by a bystander. Concepcion said agents realized they had made a mistake after looking at his ID and phone, before dropping him off at a park.<ref>{{cite web |title=Teen claims he was wrongfully detained by ICE agents after bloody takedown in Bronx |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/bronx/teen-wrongfully-detained-ice-bloody-takedown-bronx/6499581/ |website=NBC New York |access-date=May 24, 2026 |date=May 7, 2026}}</ref> Representative Ritchie Torres called for an investigation into Concepcion's detainment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rep. Ritchie Torres Demands Federal Investigation into Violent ICE Incidents in the Bronx |url=https://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/rep-ritchie-torres-demands-federal-investigation-into-violent-ice-incidents-in-the-bronx |website=Office of Ritchie Torres |access-date=May 24, 2026 |language=en |date=May 8, 2026}}</ref>
===Ernesto Diaz=== Ernesto Diaz, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, was handcuffed and threatened with a taser by masked ICE agents in late September 2025 in Chicago, after the start of Operation Midway Blitz. The agents threw his wallet on the ground and drove away after checking his identification. Diaz believes that he was targeted because he is Hispanic and dark-skinned, and began carrying his identification documents daily before the incident because of the uptick in ICE activity nationwide.<ref name="ChiTrib 11-15-25">{{cite news |last1=Rodriguez Presa |first1=Laura |last2=Johnson |first2=Rebecca |last3=Royal Pratt |first3=Gregory|title=Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: 'I felt like a piece of trash' |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/latino-us-citizens-racially-profiled-immigration-chicago/|access-date=15 November 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=15 November 2025}}</ref>
===Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales=== Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was detained by ICE on December 14, 2025, after they pulled her over in Baltimore, Maryland. Diaz Morales' lawyers said they have a birth certificate stating she was born in Laurel, Maryland, as well as other proof of citizenship.<ref name="edition.cnn.com_2025-12-23"/> Diaz Morales claims to have been living in Mexico from the age of 7.<ref name="NBC4 Washington_2026-01-09"/> According to her family<ref name="HuffPost_2025-12-19"/> and lawyers, she moved to the U.S. in 2023 due to threats of cartel violence in Mexico. According to her lawyers, she did not have the proper paperwork when she entered the U.S. and was incorrectly processed as an immigrant.<ref name="The Guardian_2026-01-09">{{Cite news|title=Maryland woman who says she is US citizen finally released from ICE custody|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/maryland-woman-us-citizen-released-ice-custody|work=The Guardian|date=2026-01-09|access-date=2026-01-16|last=Marina Dunbar}}</ref> According to her lawyers, she has never been denaturalized.<ref name="HuffPost_2025-12-19"/>
A DHS representative stated, "[Diaz Morales] did not provide a valid U.S. birth certificate or any evidence in support of her claim that she is a U.S. citizen."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hellgren |first1=Mike |title=Woman detained by ICE in Baltimore claims she's Maryland-born U.S. citizen |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-ice-arrest-viral-tiktok-plea/ |website=CBS News |access-date=December 20, 2025 |date=December 19, 2025 |archive-date=December 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251220012801/https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-ice-arrest-viral-tiktok-plea/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to her lawyers, ICE claims all her documents are forged.<ref name="HuffPost_2025-12-19">{{Cite web|title=Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_693c9355e4b018dc36f254c0|website=HuffPost|date=2025-12-19|access-date=2026-01-16|language=en|first1=Matt|last1=Shuham|first2=Dirce|last2=Toca|archive-date=February 6, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260206131222/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_693c9355e4b018dc36f254c0|url-status=live}}</ref> Her case went viral after Victoria Slatton, one of Diaz Morales' lawyers, shared information about the detention on TikTok.<ref name="www.univision.com_2026-01-08">{{Cite web|title=ICE libera a Dulce Consuelo, madre de Maryland detenido pese a ser ciudadana|url=https://www.univision.com/local/washington-dc-wfdc/ice-libera-dulce-consuelo-madre-maryland-detenido-pese-ser-ciudadana|website=Univision|date=2026-01-08|access-date=2026-01-16|language=es}}</ref><ref name="edition.cnn.com_2025-12-23">{{Citation|title=ICE detains Maryland woman whose lawyer claims she's a US citizen|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/23/us/video/ice-detains-us-citizen-maryland-deportation-legal-attorney-viral-audie-cornish-ctm|date=2025-12-23|access-date=2026-01-16|language=en|first=Kara|last=Harris|website=CNN|archive-date=December 23, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251223225027/https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/23/us/video/ice-detains-us-citizen-maryland-deportation-legal-attorney-viral-audie-cornish-ctm|url-status=live}}</ref>
Diaz Morales told WRC-TV she holds dual citizenship with Mexico and is in the process of applying for a U.S. passport.<ref name="NBC4 Washington_2026-01-09">{{Cite web|title=Maryland mother who says she's a U.S. citizen is released from 25 days in ICE custody|url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/maryland-mother-who-says-shes-a-u-s-citizen-is-released-from-25-days-in-ice-custody/4039780/|website=NBC4 Washington|date=2026-01-09|access-date=2026-01-16|language=en-US|first=Mauricio|last=Casillas}}</ref><ref name="The Guardian_2026-01-09"/> On December 18, 2025, a federal judge issued an order to prohibit the deportation of Diaz Morales.<ref name="NBC4 Washington_2025-12-19">{{Cite web|title=A Maryland mom's family says she was born in the U.S. ICE wants to deport her|url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/a-maryland-moms-family-says-she-was-born-in-the-u-s-ice-wants-to-deport-her/4031546/|website=NBC4 Washington|date=2025-12-19|access-date=2026-01-16|language=en-US|first=Mauricio|last=Casillas}}</ref> Diaz Morales was released on January 7, 2026, after 25 days in detention.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2026-01-08 |title=After 25 days, ICE releases Maryland woman who says she is a U.S. citizen |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/07/diaz-morales-maryland-woman-released-ice/ |access-date=2026-01-08 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286|first=Joe|last=Heim}}</ref> On January 13 she had her first check-in with ICE. She was forced to wait for 8 hours. ICE set the condition that she had to wear an ankle monitor before being allowed to go home. As of January 16, 2026, the government has not dismissed her case.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/16/maryland-woman-ice-detained-25-days/|title=ICE places ankle monitor on Md. woman who provided U.S. birth certificate|date=2026-01-16|access-date=2026-01-18|newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286|first=Joe|last=Heim}}</ref>
===George and Esmeralda Doilez=== U.S. citizens George and Esmeralda Doilez, who both voted for Donald Trump, were detained by U.S. Border Patrol officers on August 6, 2025. They were being followed by an unmarked SUV while en route to the dentist, before pulled over by masked, plainclothes officials with weapons. The Doilezes were told they were detained due to a "known alien out in the area".
The Doilezes stated that they were "exploring the area" and "scoping out campsites on their way to the dentist." The U.S. Border Patrol blamed the couple for the detention, saying, "If you have a dentist appointment, it probably wasn't the best decision to be out in the middle of nowhere." Esmeralda reported to NBC News that she feared the agents might kill George during the encounter. A Border Patrol agent threatened to seize their vehicle and cite them for their possession of legally purchased cannabis. The couple accused the agents of racial profiling and violating their constitutional rights. Both regretted voting for Trump repeatedly, with George saying, "I feel shame, guilt and anger at the same time because of the promises that he made that he lied to us about, going after the worst of the worst. He lied on those and he stole our vote."<ref name="Bremer Border Patrol 2025-08-08">{{Cite web |last1=Bremer |first1=Shelby |date=2025-08-08 |title=Couple alleges racial profiling in Border Patrol stop they recorded on video |url=https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/couple-alleges-racial-profiling-in-border-patrol-stop-they-recorded-on-video/3883679/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250808144435/https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/couple-alleges-racial-profiling-in-border-patrol-stop-they-recorded-on-video/3883679/ |archive-date=2025-08-08 |website=KNSD}}</ref>
===Isaac Dominguez=== Isaac Dominguez, a U.S. citizen, was detained by ICE agents in Anaheim, California in August 2025. The agents initially claimed Dominguez attacked them in a car wash, but then released him without charges. Dominguez, who is "proudly" Black and Mexican, attributed the arrest to racial profiling, saying, "they're just attacking Hispanic people, Hispanic-looking people" regardless of documentation status.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Leong |first1=Tracey |last2=Rendon |first2=Karla |date=2025-08-19 |title=US citizen recounts being detained by federal agents in Anaheim |url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/us-citizen-recounts-being-detained-by-federal-agents-in-anaheim/3766138/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250820014902/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/us-citizen-recounts-being-detained-by-federal-agents-in-anaheim/3766138/ |archive-date=2025-08-20 |website=KTLA}}</ref>
===Darren Eichler, Daniel Greer and Cordell Walls=== Darren Eichler, Daniel Greer, and Cordell Walls, along with one other U.S. citizen, were detained by ICE agents at a cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois where they worked on October 7, 2025. The four citizens were attempting to help two men, whom ICE was attempting to detain, who were struggling in the Des Plaines River near the cemetery's border. ICE agents pepper sprayed them before tackling, zip-tying and shackling them.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Crews|first=Julian|date=2025-10-08|title=ICE agents clash with cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines River|url=https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/video-ice-agents-clash-with-cemetery-workers-attempting-to-help-man-in-des-plaines-river/|work=WGN 9|archive-date=January 3, 2026|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260103123031/https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/video-ice-agents-clash-with-cemetery-workers-attempting-to-help-man-in-des-plaines-river/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kenny |first=Tess|date=2025-10-13 |title=Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ice-forest-park-cemetery-workers/|work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>
===Mahamed Eydarus=== Eydarus, an American of Somali descent, was helping his mother shovel snow from her Minneapolis driveway when agents approached and asked why they were speaking a foreign language. The agents left after the two showed the agents their identification.<ref name="NBCLawsuit"/>
===Dariana Fajardo=== Dariana Fajardo, a U.S. citizen, was detained by ICE agents in Waukegan, Illinois on October 6, 2025. They claimed she was trying to box in ICE vehicles, a claim she and community leaders denied. ICE agents ignored her U.S. passport as proof of citizenship during her arrest, leaving it in her vehicle.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2025-10-07|title='This is un-American': Community leaders condemn ICE arrest of U.S. citizen in Waukegan|url=https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/immigration-arrests-waukegan-illinois/|archive-date=January 2, 2026|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260102052328/https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/immigration-arrests-waukegan-illinois/|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Dayanne Figueroa=== Dayanne Figueroa, a U.S. citizen in Chicago, was dragged out of her car and detained by ICE following a vehicle collision on October 10, 2025. A DHS secretary claimed Figueroa used her vehicle to block agents while honking her horn. According to DHS, when agents drove away, Figueroa used her car to ram the agent's vehicle. Figueroa was arrested for assault on a federal agent. Due to the physical altercation, Figueroa had to return to the hospital where she had recently had kidney surgery.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Loria |first=Michael|date=2025-11-04 |title='Terrified': Video of masked agents hauling woman from car renews outrage in Chicago|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/04/chicago-woman-us-citizen-detained-by-immigration-agents/87074841007/|work=USA Today}}</ref>
===Jessie Fuentes=== Alderwoman Jessie Fuentes of Chicago, a Puerto Rican U.S. citizen, was handcuffed by federal agents inside an ER on October 3, 2025 after she refused to leave. Agents threatened her with arrest before releasing her outside of the hospital.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-10-03|title=Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER|url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/federal-agents-handcuff-chicago-alderperson-who-tried-to-help-immigrant/}}</ref> On October 21, Fuentes filed an administrative claim against the Department of Homeland Security under the Federal Tort Claims Act, seeking $100,000 in personal injury damages.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Parrella-Aureli |first1=Ariel |date=2025-10-21 |title=Chicago Alderperson Demands $100,000 In Damages After ICE Agent Handcuffed Her |url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/21/chicago-alderperson-demands-100000-in-damages-after-ice-agent-handcuffed-her/?utm_content=buffera8844&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwY2xjawNlI8JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhUmwDMF_5-5z35f2lnpYJoVnFDaKRm6ST8OKvhA1ZO67iRdmz3L6tHyIaAE_aem_AlidAEC_Fao3ohCQ6R4-qg |work=Block Club Chicago |archive-date=November 12, 2025 |access-date=February 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251112040828/https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/21/chicago-alderperson-demands-100000-in-damages-after-ice-agent-handcuffed-her/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwY2xjawNlI8JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhUmwDMF_5-5z35f2lnpYJoVnFDaKRm6ST8OKvhA1ZO67iRdmz3L6tHyIaAE_aem_AlidAEC_Fao3ohCQ6R4-qg&utm_content=buffera8844&utm_medium=social |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Job Garcia=== [[File:Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles.jpg|thumb|Job Garcia, a U.S. citizen, was detained by ICE and held in captivity in the Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles.]] Garcia, a graduate student and part-time delivery worker, was swept up during an ICE raid at the Home Depot in Hollywood, Los Angeles on June 18, 2025. Garcia witnessed agents smashing another man's car window and was arrested after he began recording the incident. He was physically beaten by ICE agents, brought to Dodger Stadium alongside 30 other detainees and was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles for 24 hours before being released.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05" /><ref>{{Cite news |title=U.S. citizen detained in Hollywood immigration raid speaks out |url=https://ktla.com/news/local-news/u-s-citizen-detained-in-hollywood-immigration-raid-speaks-out/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250622023151/https://ktla.com/news/local-news/u-s-citizen-detained-in-hollywood-immigration-raid-speaks-out/ |archive-date=June 22, 2025 |access-date=2025-06-23 |work=KTLA |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref> Garcia said that agents considered charging him with assaulting a federal officer but decided against it when video of the arrest became public.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-21 |title=US citizen says his arrest by federal agents was worth it if others got away |url=https://abc7news.com/post/job-garcia-us-citizen-says-arrest-during-hollywood-home-depot-ice-raid-was-worth-others-got-away/16809821/ |access-date=2025-06-23 |website=ABC7 San Francisco |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hirasuna |first=Susan |date=2025-06-20 |title=US citizen speaks out after being detained by ICE in Hollywood |url=https://www.foxla.com/news/us-citizen-speaks-out-detained-by-ice |access-date=2025-06-23 |website=FOX 11 |language=en-US}}</ref>
===Jason Brian Gavidia=== Jason Brian Gavidia, an American citizen, was videotaped being detained in June 2025 in his hometown of Montebello, California by ICE agents who twisted his arm while asking him, "What hospital were you born at?" The mayor of Montebello, Salvador Melendez, said in response to the incident: "This is racial profiling. They're stopping folks because of the way they look...ICE agents are terrorizing our community. They are taking actions and asking questions later. There is absolutely no due process.<ref>{{cite news |last=Levin |first=Sam |title=Ice agents detain US citizen as LA immigration raids continue: 'It's racial profiling' |newspaper=The Guardian |date=June 16, 2025 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/los-angeles-immigration-raids-montebello |access-date=June 19, 2025}}</ref>
In August 2025, Gavidia joined a lawsuit challenging immigration enforcement tactics. Gavidia, a former Trump supporter and voter, accused the President of lying and "brainwashing" the United States, and stated that he regretted supporting Trump.<ref name="Gavidia Trump ICE 2025-08-13">{{Cite web|date=2025-08-13|title=Trump Supporter Detained by ICE Agents Regrets Vote: 'Were All Brainwashed'|last1=Rahman|first1=Billal|url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporter-detained-ice-agents-immigration-2112676|url-status=live|website=Newsweek|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250813154255/https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporter-detained-ice-agents-immigration-2112676|archive-date=2025-08-13}}</ref>
===Edwin Godinez and Yair Napolés=== Godinez and Napolés, stepbrothers and U.S. citizens, were detained by ICE in Salisbury, North Carolina on January 5, 2026. The two had learned that two of their co-workers at their family's construction business had been detained by ICE, so they responded to the scene to pick up a work vehicle that was left behind. ICE agents stopped them nearby and attempted to grab Godinez's phone. After attempting to remove the two from their vehicle and apparently striking Godinez, the ICE agents left.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sánchez-Guerra |first1=Aaron |title='Traumatized': U.S. citizens say ICE officers detained, assaulted them in Salisbury, NC |url=https://www.wunc.org/race-class-communities/2026-01-09/ice-officers-detained-assaulted-citizens-salisbury-nc |website=WUNC |access-date=January 12, 2026 |date=January 9, 2026}}</ref>
===Maria Greeley=== Maria Greeley, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen of Chicago, was detained by ICE in October 2025, who surrounded her on her way home from work, forced her hands behind her back and zip-tied her. They questioned her for an hour, refused to answer questions and accused her of lying when she produced her passport as proof of citizenship, telling her that she "doesn't look like" a Greeley. Greeley attributed the incident to racial profiling, stating, "I am Latina and I am a service worker. I fit the description of what they're looking for now."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-10-13|title=ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: 'It's not fair...I'm a resident'|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ice-fines-chicago-man-for-not-having-papers-on-him/}}</ref>
===Angelica Guerrero=== After allegedly slashing an ICE van's tire,<ref name=probation /> U.S. citizen Angelica Guerrero was detained by ICE agents in San Francisco, California in August 2025, and was denied access to legal representation or a phone call for 24 hours. Guerrero was tackled by a federal agent, not read her rights, and detained outside of an ICE facility during a small protest on San Francisco municipal property. Guerrero was detained in the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California. Guerrero was charged for interfering with federal agents and destruction of property. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund stated that the agents violated "multiple laws" in the detention of Guerrero.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-08-22|title=Federal agents arrest US citizen for 24 hours after ICE protest outside SF immigration building|last1=Pena|first1=Luz|url=https://abc7news.com/post/federal-agents-arrest-us-citizen-24-hours-ice-protest-outside-san-francisco-immigration-building/17609890/|url-status=live|website=KGO-TV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250822154038/https://abc7news.com/post/federal-agents-arrest-us-citizen-24-hours-ice-protest-outside-san-francisco-immigration-building/17609890/|archive-date=2025-08-22}}</ref> Guerrero plead guilty to damaging U.S. government property. She was sentenced to two years of probation and $1,200 restitution.<ref name=probation>{{cite news |last1=Hernandez |first1=David |title=Woman gets probation for slashing ICE van’s tire during S.F. protest |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woman-sentenced-ice-van-slashed-21248726.php |access-date=7 April 2026 |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=December 17, 2025}}</ref>
===Jonathan Guerrero=== Jonathan Guerrero, a 21-year-old Mexican American U.S. citizen born in Philadelphia, was detained by ICE while working at a car wash in January 2025. ICE agents aimed firearms at him and then handcuffed him, along with several of his coworkers. Agents released Guerrero after checking his ID.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-03-18|title=Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump's Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.|last1=Foy|first1=Nicole|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/more-americans-will-be-caught-up-trump-immigration-raids|url-status=live|website=ProPublica|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321063318/https://www.propublica.org/article/more-americans-will-be-caught-up-trump-immigration-raids|archive-date=2025-03-21}}</ref>
===Ernesto Campos Gutierrez=== In Bakersfield, California, U.S. citizen Ernesto Campos Gutierrez was detained by Border Patrol agents in January 2025; the incident was recorded on video.<ref name="Campos BP 2025-01-30">{{Cite web |last1=Medina |first1=Mekahlo |last2=Soto |first2=Missael |date=2025-01-30 |title=Gardener says he was profiled, detained by Border Patrol agents in Bakersfield |url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/gardener-says-he-was-profiled-detained-by-ice-agents-in-bakersfield/3618924/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250130104435/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/gardener-says-he-was-profiled-detained-by-ice-agents-in-bakersfield/3618924/ |archive-date=2025-01-30 |website=NBC News}}</ref> During his detention, agents flattened all the tires on his work truck with knives, arrested Campos Gutierrez for having a non-citizen in the truck, and then released him hours later with no charges.<ref name="Gamboa ICE 2025-03-04">{{Cite web|date=2025-03-04|title=Border Patrol slashed tires, detained legal residents in 'fishing expedition,' lawsuit alleges|last1=Gamboa|first1=Suzanne|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/border-patrol-immigration-detained-legal-residents-kern-county-aclu-rcna194563|url-status=live|website=NBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250305013252/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/border-patrol-immigration-detained-legal-residents-kern-county-aclu-rcna194563|archive-date=2025-03-05}}</ref>
===Jose Hermosillo=== Nineteen-year-old U.S. citizen Jose Hermosillo, a resident of the state of New Mexico, was arrested by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Tucson, Arizona, on April 8, 2025, while visiting his girlfriend's family.{{efn|Court documents incorrectly state that Jose Hermosillo was arrested in Nogales, Arizona; an affidavit posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security correctly states the arrest occurred in Tucson.<ref name="azcentral">{{Cite web |last=Ruelas |first=Richard |title=Homeland Security releases interview with US citizen held after saying he was from Mexico |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2025/04/22/u-s-citizen-jose-hermosillo-arrested-held-immigration-case/83203021007/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=The Arizona Republic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Legum">{{Cite web |last=Legum |first=Judd |title=US citizen wrongly detained by the border patrol says government's account is false |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-wrongly-detained-ice-patrol-governments-account-false/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US |archive-date=January 16, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260116155052/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-wrongly-detained-ice-patrol-governments-account-false/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jose:0">{{Cite web |last=Khmara |first=Danyelle |title=U.S. citizen detained for 10 days by immigration officials may not have known what he was signing – AZPM |url=https://news.azpm.org/s/100806-us-citizen-detained-for-10-days-by-immigration-officials-may-not-have-known-what-he-was-signing/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=news.azpm.org |language=en |archive-date=September 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250919214922/https://news.azpm.org/s/100806-us-citizen-detained-for-10-days-by-immigration-officials-may-not-have-known-what-he-was-signing/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Hermosillo said that he has never been to Nogales.<ref name="Jose:0" />}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-21 |title=U.S. citizen visiting Arizona detained by immigration agents for 10 days, family says |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/new-mexico-teen-visiting-arizona-detained-immigration-agents-family-sa-rcna202102 |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=December 31, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251231094319/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/new-mexico-teen-visiting-arizona-detained-immigration-agents-family-sa-rcna202102 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Khmara">{{Cite web |last=Khmara |first=Danyelle |title=U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days |url=https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=news.azpm.org |language=en |archive-date=January 22, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260122174404/https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Hermosillo was falsely arrested for illegally entering the country while walking near the Border Patrol headquarters.<ref name="Khmara" /><ref name="Begay-2025">{{Cite web |last=Begay |first=Mesha |date=2025-04-23 |title=Albuquerque man talks about being wrongfully detained by Border Patrol |url=https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-man-talks-about-being-wrongfully-detained-by-border-patrol/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=KOB.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Upon learning of his detention in Florence Correctional Center, a privately owned prison in Florence, Arizona, a member of Hermosillo's girlfriend's family drove to the facility with Hermosillo's Social Security card and birth certificate but was not given any information or allowed to effectuate his release.<ref name="Khmara" />
The government claimed that Hermosillo had said that he was a Mexican citizen, said that he had entered the country illegally through Nogales, and said that he was planning to stay for 20 years to work.<ref name="azcentral" /> According to an anonymous United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, Hermosillo then signed a statement with those facts.<ref name="Fisher-2025">{{Cite web |last=Fisher |first=Austin |date=April 21, 2025 |title=Arizona AG queries ICE about arrest of New Mexico man • Source New Mexico |url=https://sourcenm.com/briefs/arizona-ag-queries-ice-about-arrest-of-new-mexico-man/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Source New Mexico |language=en-US}}</ref> Hermosillo's family and girlfriend say that he has a learning disability and is illiterate.<ref name="Begay-2025" /> The charging document states that Hermosillo either read the document or had it read to him, but Hermosillo states that it was never read to him.<ref name="Legum" />
According to Hermosillo, the Border Patrol's version of events is false. He says that he had a seizure and was taken to a hospital by an ambulance without his state ID card. He says that after being released from the hospital, he got lost and went to a police officer for help. The police officer asked where he was from and he said that he was from "New Mexico". The officer, who worked for the Border Patrol, responded "Don't make me [out] like [I'm] stupid. I know you're from Mexico", and arrested him, according to Hermosillo. He says that he told prison staff that he was a U.S. citizen several times, and was told "call your lawyer." He denies that ICE officers read him the document that was signed with his first name.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Rashid |first=Hafiz |title=Detained U.S. Citizen Says Immigration Agents Lied About Everything: Immigration officials detained Jose Hermosillo for over a week. He says their story of what happened is completely inaccurate |magazine=The New Republic |date=April 23, 2025 |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/194303/us-citizen-detained-10-days-dhs-lied |access-date=April 26, 2025}}</ref>
Hermosillo was detained for a total of ten days before being released on April 17.<ref name="azcentral" /> In an interview after his release, Hermosillo stated that, "They were saying I'm from Mexico, but I'm a U.S. citizen."<ref name="Begay-2025" /> Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes investigated Hermosillo's detention by immigration authorities, requesting information about the incident from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<ref name="azcentral" /><ref name="Fisher-2025" /> "It is wholly unacceptable to wrongfully detain U.S. citizens", Mayes said in a statement.<ref name="Fisher-2025" />
===Mubashir Khalif Hussen=== At a press conference on December 9, 2025, a man identifying himself as Mubashir stated ICE agents had chased him, put him in a choke hold and dragged and pushed him into a car even though he told them he was a U.S. citizen; video of the incident also showed bystanders confronting the agents. ICE then drove him to a federal building in Bloomington where they fingerprinted him. After showing ID he was released and told to walk home.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="NBCLawsuit">{{cite web |last1=Lozano |first1=Alicia Victoria |title=Lawsuit accuses federal agents of racial profiling in Minneapolis immigration operation |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawsuit-accuses-federal-agents-racial-profiling-minneapolis-immigratio-rcna254245 |website=NBC News |access-date=January 15, 2026 |date=January 15, 2026 |archive-date=January 16, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260116003220/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawsuit-accuses-federal-agents-racial-profiling-minneapolis-immigratio-rcna254245 |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Christian Jimenez and Isaias Eduardo Soto Elias=== ICE detained U.S. citizen Christian Jimenez, a 17-year-old high school senior, in McMinnville, Oregon on November 22, 2025. Jimenez was driving his father's car when ICE agents stopped him, broke the car window, and arrested him, despite his professions of U.S. citizenship. He was released later that day. His older brother, Cesar Jimenez, stated that authorities may be charging his brother with interference or obstruction of an investigation.<ref>{{cite news |last=Amaro |first=Yesenia |date=November 24, 2025 |title=High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/11/high-school-senior-in-oregon-a-us-citizen-detained-by-ice.html |url-status=live |access-date=25 November 2025 |work=The Oregonian |archive-date=November 25, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251125034438/https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/11/high-school-senior-in-oregon-a-us-citizen-detained-by-ice.html }}</ref> According to the DHS, a Chevy Tahoe driven by U.S. citizen Isaias Eduardo Soto Elias was following border patrol agents for several miles when a Ford F-150 driven by Jimenez "showed up on the scene and colluded with the Chevy Tahoe to barricade the agents, preventing their movement and obstructing them." ICE arrested Soto Elias for impeding federal law enforcement officers. Jimenez left the scene and was tracked down by other officers and arrested for impeding federal law enforcement officers.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zarkhin |first1=Fedor |title=Feds say Oregon 17-year-old used his car to ‘violently attack’ ICE agents |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/feds-say-oregon-17-year-old-used-his-car-to-violently-attack-ice-agents/ar-AA1R4RKz |access-date=22 April 2026 |publisher=Oregon Live/MSN |date=24 November 2025}}</ref>
===Rodrick Johnson=== U.S. citizen and military veteran Rodrick Johnson was detained by federal agents during a late night immigration raid on a building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago on September 30, 2025. He was dragged from his home, zip-tied and detained by federal agents for nearly three hours before being released. Agents ignored his request for an attorney.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-10-01|title=Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'|url=https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated}}</ref>
===Brad Lander=== thumb|Brad Lander, the New York City Comptroller and a U.S. citizen, was detained by ICE. New York City Comptroller and former mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been detained by ICE twice. Lander had begun accompanying defendants to immigration hearings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rivlin-Nadler |first=Max |date=June 5, 2025 |title=NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Walks With Immigrants Outside Court to Shield Them From ICE:'I Would Urge New Yorkers to Do This' |url=https://hellgatenyc.com/lander-accompanies-immigrants-ice/ |access-date=June 17, 2025 |website=Hellgate |language=en-us}}</ref> On June 17, 2025, Lander was arrested and handcuffed by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials at an immigration court while linking arms with a person ICE was trying to detain.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shivonne |first=Adeja |date=June 17, 2025 |title=NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by ICE, spokesperson says |url=https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-mayoral-candidate-arrest-ice-spokesperson-says |access-date=June 17, 2025 |website=FOX 5 NY |language=en-US |archive-date=June 17, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250617164153/https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-mayoral-candidate-arrest-ice-spokesperson-says |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Amatulli |first=Jenna |date=June 17, 2025 |title=New York City comptroller Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearing |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/brad-lander-arrested-new-york-city-comptroller |access-date=June 17, 2025 |website=The Guardian |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 17, 2025 |title=NYC mayoral candidate is arrested at immigration court after linking arms with man being detained |url=https://apnews.com/article/brad-lander-nyc-immigration-court-arrest-6ed341297efab31a08a14421674d8ed8 |access-date=June 17, 2025 |website=Associated Press |language=en}}</ref> The official reason provided for the arrest was "assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer", according to Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, although Lander was later released saying that he "certainly did not" assault an officer.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Amatulli |first=Jenna |date=June 17, 2025 |title=New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested at immigration court |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/brad-lander-arrested-new-york-city-comptroller |access-date=June 17, 2025 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 17, 2025 |title=NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by ICE |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg430dx702o |access-date=June 18, 2025 |website=BBC |language=en-GB |archive-date=June 17, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250617235129/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg430dx702o |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ferré-Sadurní |first=Luis |date=June 17, 2025 |title=Brad Lander, NYC Mayoral Candidate, Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyregion/brad-lander-immigration-ice.html |access-date=June 17, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 17, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250617174200/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyregion/brad-lander-immigration-ice.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The arrest was quickly condemned by an array of Democratic politicians from the state, including New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<ref name="Guardian Lander 2025-06-17">{{Cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Lucy |last2=Dunbar |first2=Marina |last3=Clinton |first3=Jane |date=June 17, 2025 |title=New York politicians condemn mayoral candidate Brad Lander's arrest as 'fascism' and 'political intimidation' – US politics live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/17/donald-trump-g7-iran-israel-ceasefire-us-politics-live-updates |access-date=June 17, 2025 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250730011931/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/17/donald-trump-g7-iran-israel-ceasefire-us-politics-live-updates|archive-date=2025-07-30}}</ref>
On September 18, 2025, Lander was arrested and detained by ICE agents in New York City, along with 14 other elected New York area officials, after being denied access to inspect prisoner holding cells, which courts have ruled unsanitary.<ref name="ICE mass arrests elected officials 2025-09-18" /><ref name="ICE 11 - NYT 2025-09-18" />
===Kenny Laynez=== Kenny Laynez, an 18-year-old U.S.-born citizen, was detained by Florida Highway Patrol and Border Patrol agents on May 2, 2025. The officers dragged Laynez and his coworkers out of their van, pushed Laynez to the pavement, and used a taser on one of his coworkers. His detention was recorded on video. When Laynez stated he was a U.S.-born citizen with the right to talk, a Border Patrol officer replied, "You don't have any rights here. You are a 'Migo', brother." Laynez resisted attempts to get him to surrender his phone and the recording of the arrest, which allowed him to preserve it. Laynez was released six hours later. Officers mentioned a $30,000 bonus, but did not clarify what bonus or why.<ref name="Palm ICE Laynez 2025-07-22">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-22|title=He lived an immigrant's nightmare. One problem: He's a citizen, got his arrest on video|last1=Palm|first1=Valentina|url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/2025/07/22/ice-raids-florida-citizen-lived-immigrants-nightmare-of-being-arrested/84504993007/|url-status=live|website=The Palm Beach Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250722190830/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/2025/07/22/ice-raids-florida-citizen-lived-immigrants-nightmare-of-being-arrested/84504993007/|archive-date=2025-07-22}}</ref>
===Marcos Leao=== On June 13, 2025, 27-year-old Marcos Leao, a U.S. citizen and army veteran, was detained at the Wilshire Federal Building by the United States Marines stationed there under orders from Donald Trump. The detention was confirmed to ''Reuters'' by the military. Leao was on his way to a Veterans Affairs office when he crossed a yellow-tape boundary and was stopped by Marines. Leao said he was treated "very fairly" and "They're just doing their job."<ref name=marinesLA>{{Cite web|date=2025-06-13|title=US marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/13/donald-trump-national-guard-los-angeles-ice-protests-military-parade-us-politics-live-news-updates|url-status=live|website=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250806165017/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/13/donald-trump-national-guard-los-angeles-ice-protests-military-parade-us-politics-live-news-updates|archive-date=2025-08-06}}</ref>
===Elzon Lemus=== Elzon Lemus, a 23-year-old Hispanic New Yorker, was stopped during his commute to his electrician job and detained in Westbury, New York by ICE officials saying they were looking for someone fitting his description in June 2025. Lemus refused to provide identification to the officials until they identified themselves, which they refused to do. Lemus explained that he did not provide the officials ID because they were not dressed as police, he had not broken any laws, and he was just riding in a passenger seat of a vehicle. Lemus was then handcuffed and detained for 20–25 minutes and released after officials found his ID on his person. Lemus's attorney has accused ICE of violating Lemus's civil rights and arguing that Americans should not have to live under this type of harassment.<ref>{{cite news|last= Graziosi |first=Graig |title=US citizen blasts ICE after being detained as he drove to work: 'They're the criminals'|newspaper=The Independent|date=June 13, 2025|url=https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-citizen-detained-ice-criminals-new-york-b2769786.html|access-date=June 19, 2025}}</ref>
===Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez=== Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, an American citizen born in the United States and residing in Georgia, was traveling from his home to Florida for a construction job along with two other people on April 16, 2025.<ref name="guardian">{{Cite news |last=Yang |first=Maya |date=2025-04-18 |title=Florida releases US-born American citizen who was arrested on Ice orders |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/florida-us-born-citizen-released-ice |access-date=2025-04-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="Lopez:2">{{Cite web |last=Llanos |first=Jackie |date=2025-04-18 |title=Federal judge extends block on Florida immigration law that led to arrest of a U.S. citizen • Florida Phoenix |url=https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/18/federal-judge-extends-block-on-florida-immigration-law-that-led-to-arrest-of-a-u-s-citizen/ |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=Florida Phoenix |language=en-US |archive-date=January 27, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260127041721/https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/18/federal-judge-extends-block-on-florida-immigration-law-that-led-to-arrest-of-a-u-s-citizen/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Their car was pulled over for a traffic stop by the Florida Highway Patrol for allegedly speeding. Lopez-Gomez, along with the driver and an additional passenger, were arrested and each charged with allegedly entering Florida as an "unauthorized alien" under Florida law SB 4-C.<ref name="Lopez:0">{{Cite web |last=Llanos |first=Jackie |date=2025-04-17 |title=U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix |url=https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u-s-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/ |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=Florida Phoenix |language=en-US |archive-date=May 9, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250509175532/https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u-s-born-man-held-for-ice-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Lopez-Gomez1">{{Cite web |date=2025-04-18 |title=U.S.-born citizen held by ICE in Florida jail |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-florida-detention-juan-carlos-lopez-gomez-b2735801.html |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=August 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250808212054/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-florida-detention-juan-carlos-lopez-gomez-b2735801.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
The government claims that Lopez-Gomez confessed that he was in the country illegally to authorities, but Lopez-Gomez disputes this claim insisting that he told the official he was an American citizen and provided a Social Security card and Georgia ID.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Llanos |first=Jackie |date=2025-04-21 |title=Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law • Florida Phoenix |url=https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/21/feds-blame-u-s-citizen-for-his-arrest-under-suspended-immigration-law/ |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=Florida Phoenix |language=en-US}}</ref> Both Lopez-Gomez's mother and his community advocate presented Lopez-Gomez's birth certificate to Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans, who deemed the birth certificate authentic. However, the judge said that there was nothing she could do to let him out of jail at that time, despite finding no probable cause to hold Lopez-Gomez.<ref name="Lopez:0" /><ref name="Lopez-Gomez1" />
Lopez-Gomez was detained in the Leon County Jail until he was released on April 17.<ref name="guardian" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-18 |first=Suzanne |last=Gamboa |title=U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida is released |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-american-citizen-ice-hold-florida-released-rcna201854 |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=February 18, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260218054246/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-american-citizen-ice-hold-florida-released-rcna201854 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Lopez:0" /> The Florida Phoenix reported that the driver was being held by ICE.<ref name="Lopez:2" /> Alana Greer of the Community Justice Project—a Florida immigration advocacy group—described the experience as, "A series of horrors", and said that "[n]o one should have been arrested under this law, let alone a U.S. citizen."<ref name="Valdes-2025">{{Cite web |last1=Hassan |first1=Carma |last2=Gallagher |first2=Dianne |last3=Valdes |first3=Gustavo |date=2025-04-18 |title=Mid-commute traffic stop left US citizen detained under an ICE order. Then, a Florida judge verified his US birth certificate |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-gomez-citizen-detained-ice-florida/index.html |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=CNN |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250418013839/https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-gomez-citizen-detained-ice-florida/index.html|archive-date=2025-04-18}}</ref> Lopez-Gomez's attorney stated that this case is "a prime example of why everyone should care, because if it happens to Mr. Lopez-Gomez, a U.S.-born citizen, it can happen to anyone."<ref name="Valdes-2025" />
===Jensy Machado=== Naturalized U.S. citizen Jensy Machado and two other men were stopped and detained by ICE on March 5, 2025, while they were driving to work in Manassas, Virginia. The ICE officers had their guns out and said that they were looking for someone with a different name who had a deportation order and had given Machado's address as his own. Machado explained that he was not the man they were looking for and offered to show them his Real ID driver's license, but was told to keep his hands in the air and was then handcuffed. He was only released after officials viewed his driver's license. Machado said that he had thought ICE was only going to target criminals, but is instead assuming that all Hispanic people are in the country illegally. Machado also stated that he regretted voting for Trump.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bensen |first=Jackie |date=2025-03-06 |title='Just following Hispanic people': Citizen detained by ICE questions vote for Trump |url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/just-following-hispanic-people-citizen-detained-by-ice-questions-vote-for-trump/3861172/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=NBC4 Washington |language=en-US}}</ref>
That month, Virginia senator Mark Warner wrote to DHS, "U.S. citizens interacting with ICE who seek to prove their identity with identification or other documents that would assist ICE in determining their identity and immigration status should be permitted to do so." He also asked the agency to answer several questions, such as whether the ICE officers identified themselves prior to pulling out their guns, and whether they had been "counseled or disciplined" for their actions.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bensen |first=Jackie |date=2025-03-20 |title=Sen. Warner seeks answers on why ICE detained a US citizen in Manassas |url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/president-trump-politics/sen-warner-seeks-answers-about-ice-detaining-us-citizen/3873086/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=NBC4 Washington |language=en-US}}</ref>
===Adrian Andrew Martinez=== Adrian Andrew Martinez is an American citizen born in Los Angeles, who was detained outside of his job at a Wal-Mart by ICE in June 2025.<ref name="Adrian Andrew Martinez Ice 2025-06-18">{{Cite web|date=2025-06-18|title=Mother of U.S. citizen taken by ICE in Pico Rivera speaks out|last1=Zaccarias|first1= Michelle |url=https://www.calonews.com/communities/los-angeles/mother-of-u-s-citizen-taken-by-ice-in-pico-rivera-still-searching-for-son/article_8a1cf328-1533-44fa-8aea-79469c80b3fa.html|url-status=live|website=CaloNews|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250619000548/https://www.calonews.com/communities/los-angeles/mother-of-u-s-citizen-taken-by-ice-in-pico-rivera-still-searching-for-son/article_8a1cf328-1533-44fa-8aea-79469c80b3fa.html|archive-date=2025-06-19}}</ref> Video footage showed "agents in tactical gear restraining Martinez as they wrestle him to the ground."<ref name="Adrian Andrew Martinez Ice 2025-06-18" /> Martinez was held incommunicado after the unidentified individuals abducted him, with officials denying any knowledge of Martinez's whereabouts.<ref name="Adrian Andrew Martinez Ice 2025-06-18" /> After a hearing on June 21, Martinez was released on a $5,000 bond and charged with alleged conspiracy to impede or injure an officer. His lawyers called this "a clearly trumped up charge filed to justify the federal agents' violent treatment of Adrian" and said that "Adrian did nothing wrong, and was standing up for an elderly janitorial worker when he was violently assaulted and abducted."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Silva |first=Gina |date=2025-06-19 |title=Feds say man punched agents at Pico Rivera Walmart - security footage shows no punches |url=https://www.foxla.com/news/pico-rivera-walmart-ice-arrest-us-citizen-adrian-martinez |access-date=2025-06-23 |website=FOX 11 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250622222430/https://www.foxla.com/news/pico-rivera-walmart-ice-arrest-us-citizen-adrian-martinez|archive-date=2025-06-22}}</ref>
===Jose "Joey" Martinez=== On January 5, 2026, Jose "Joey" Martinez and his wife, of Phoenix, Arizona, were sleeping in their room on a Carnival Cruise Line ship docked in Miami when Border Patrol agents entered their room and detained Martinez, taking him to a holding cell. Martinez is a naturalized citizen who was born to a member of the Air Force in Thailand. Martinez's wife, a naturalized citizen from Belgium, attempted to film his detention, but agents took her phone and forced Martinez to delete it. Martinez said agents told him he was flagged for having the same name as someone wanted for a crime.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sanchez |first1=Camryn |title=This Phoenix man was unexpectedly detained by Border Patrol agents on cruise ship in Miami |url=https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2026-01-08/this-phoenix-man-unexpectedly-detained-by-border-patrol-agents-on-cruise-ship-in-miami |website=KJZZ |access-date=January 9, 2026 |date=January 8, 2026 |archive-date=January 9, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260109015403/https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2026-01-08/this-phoenix-man-unexpectedly-detained-by-border-patrol-agents-on-cruise-ship-in-miami |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Marimar Martinez=== {{Main|Shooting of Marimar Martinez}}
Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen of Chicago, was shot five times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago on October 4, 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Korecki |first=Natasha |last2=Guevara |first2=Selina |date=2026-02-06 |title=Border Patrol agent's texts after he shot a Chicago woman five times will be released, judge rules |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/border-patrol-marimar-martinez-shooting-chicago-text-message-release-rcna257765 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> Federal agents claimed that she was armed, had pointed her weapon at them and had attempted to box in their vehicle. According to her lawyer, bodycam footage conflicted with their statement, showing an agent saying "Do something, bitch", before agents ran into her vehicle and one fired at her. The lawyer said she had a gun in her purse in the passenger seat, never in her hand, and a concealed carry license in the state.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Hickman |first1=Renee |date=2025-10-09 |title=Bodycam footage conflicts with DHS account of Chicago woman's shooting by Border Patrol, lawyer says |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bodycam-footage-conflicts-with-dhs-account-chicago-womans-shooting-by-border-2025-10-08/ |access-date=November 26, 2025 |work=Reuters}}</ref> She was not charged with a firearms charge.<ref name="NBC-Martinez">{{cite news |last=Silva |first=Daniella |date=November 21, 2025 |title=Judge dismisses charges against Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-woman-shot-border-patrol-marimar-martinez-charges-dismissed-rcna244979 |work=NBC News |access-date=November 26, 2025 |archive-date=January 7, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260107221545/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-woman-shot-border-patrol-marimar-martinez-charges-dismissed-rcna244979 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Martinez was taken to a local hospital in fair condition and discharged later that day before being charged with allegedly assaulting a federal officer. Protests broke out in the area of the shooting, and federal agents shot pepper balls and tear gas at the protesters.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Schuba |first1=Tom |last2=Hernandez |first2=Cindy |last3=Kuznikov |first3=Selena |last4=Puente |first4=Michael |last5=Norkol |first5=Mary |last6=Oliver |first6=Jesse |date=2025-10-04 |title=Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side |url=https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/04/federal-agents-shoot-woman-they-say-boxed-in-authorities-in-brighton-park |work=WBEZ Chicago |archive-date=January 30, 2026 |access-date=February 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260130160446/https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/04/federal-agents-shoot-woman-they-say-boxed-in-authorities-in-brighton-park |url-status=live }}</ref> During the proceedings, it came out that Charles Exum, the agent who shot her, had bragged to other agents about leaving seven bullet holes in Martinez with five bullets.<ref name="NBC-Martinez" /> After the Department of Homeland Security had called her a terrorist multiple times,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barr |first1=Luke |last2=Arancio |first2=Victoria |last3=Vinick |first3=Gaby |last4=Pereira |first4=Ivan |last5=Hutchinson |first5=Bill |date=October 5, 2025 |title=Protester shot in Chicago by border patrol agents who claim they were 'ambushed' by convoy |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/homeland-security-requests-national-guard-chicago-despite-protests/story?id=126218735 |work=ABC News |access-date=November 26, 2025 |quote=DHS officials referred to Martinez and the other protesters involved in the incident as "domestic terrorists." [...] "We will not allow domestic terrorists to attack our law enforcement. If you lay a hand on law enforcement, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. |archive-date=November 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251114073451/https://abcnews.go.com/US/homeland-security-requests-national-guard-chicago-despite-protests/story?id=126218735 |url-status=live }}</ref> federal prosecutors moved to drop their own case, and the judge dismissed her charges with prejudice.<ref name="NBC-Martinez" />
===Bajun Mavalwalla===
A month after a June 2025 protest against ICE in Spokane, WA, FBI agents arrested US Army veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II on conspiracy charges.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Glantz |first1=Aaron |title=Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest |access-date=20 March 2026 |work=The Guardian |date=2 September 2025}}</ref> The acting US attorney resigned rather than signing the indictment against him.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Glantz |first1=Aaron |title=US veteran charged with ‘conspiracy’ over ICE protest refuses to plead guilty |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-army-veteran-ice-protest-trial |access-date=20 March 2026 |work=The Guardian |date=20 March 2026}}</ref> Mavalwalla's father, also a military veteran, decided to run for Congress after his son's arrest.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaur |first1=Simmerdeep |title=Congressional Candidate Bajun Mavalwalla shares his views on ICE at Walla Walla town hall |url=https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/local/elections/congressional-candidate-bajun-mavalwalla-shares-his-views-on-ice-at-walla-walla-town-hall/article_fe085754-d4df-490e-9773-e2bcf077c094.html |access-date=20 March 2026 |work=Walla Walla (WA) Union-Bulletin |date=14 March 2026}}</ref>
===Sabrina Medina=== U.S. citizen Sabrina Medina's home in Huntington Park, California was raided in June 2025 by ICE agents. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was present at the raid on Medina's home. ICE claimed to be in pursuit of Medina's husband, who is not a U.S. citizen. At the time, Medina's husband was not present at the home. Medina's young daughter, also a U.S. citizen, fled from ICE and escaped detention.<ref name="KNBC ICE HP 2025-08-07">{{Cite web|date=2025-08-07|authorlink1=Robert Kovacik|last1=Kovacik|first1=Robert|title=US citizen released after being detained by ICE agents in search of her husband|url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/on-air/us-citizen-released-after-being-detained-by-ice-agents-in-search-of-her-husband/3760797/|url-status=live|website=KNBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250807154124/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/on-air/us-citizen-released-after-being-detained-by-ice-agents-in-search-of-her-husband/3760797/|archive-date=2025-08-07}}</ref>
On August 6, 2025, ICE agents detained Medina, who was pregnant, for the second time and arrested her on a municipal level shoplifting allegation from 2013 as she left a medical clinic for a pregnancy check-up.<ref name="NBC4 LA ICE 2025-08-07">{{Cite web|date=2025-08-07|title=Pregnant US citizen speaks out after being detained by ICE agents searching for her husband|last1=Medina|first1=Mehahlo|last2=Soto|first2=Missael|url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/pregnant-us-citizen-speaks-out-ice-immigration/3761282/|url-status=live|website=KNBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250808143331/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/pregnant-us-citizen-speaks-out-ice-immigration/3761282/|archive-date=2025-08-08|quote=Medina and her undocumented mother were arrested Wednesday after leaving a clinic for her pregnancy check-up. She says she has already been tracked down by federal agents four times, but this is the first time they arrested her.}}</ref> The agents told Medina she would be released only if she turned in and surrendered her husband.<ref name="KNBC ICE HP 2025-08-07" /> Medina has no contact with her husband, and stated that the agents were using her as bait for him. The agents threatened to arrest other members of Medina's family unless she helped them detain her husband. ICE previously pursued and engaged Medina a total of four times until arresting her for the shoplifting warrant.<ref name="NBC4 LA ICE 2025-08-07" />
===Ramon Menera=== ICE agents detained Menera, an American citizen originally from Mexico, outside his Minneapolis home, accusing him of not being a citizen due to his accent. Menera was zip-tied by agents before being released.<ref>{{cite web |title=Border Patrol agent detains US citizen, tells him it's 'because of your accent' |url=https://www.foxcarolina.com/2026/01/18/border-patrol-agent-detains-us-citizen-tells-him-its-because-your-accent |website=FOX Carolina |publisher=CNN |access-date=January 19, 2026 |date=January 18, 2026 |archive-date=January 19, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260119015520/https://www.foxcarolina.com/2026/01/18/border-patrol-agent-detains-us-citizen-tells-him-its-because-your-accent/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Merlos children=== {{main|Family immigration detention in the United States}}
Four U.S. citizen children in Oregon were held in detention by ICE for several weeks, beginning in June 2025.<ref name="Soumyanath Oregon 2025-07-11">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-11|title=Four U.S. citizen children detained in WA, Oregon lawmaker says | last1=Soumyanath|first1=Sujena|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/four-u-s-citizen-children-detained-in-wa-oregon-rep-says/|url-status=live|website=Seattle Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250716150457/https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/four-u-s-citizen-children-detained-in-wa-oregon-rep-says/|archive-date=2025-07-16}}</ref><ref name="KGW Oregon 2025-07-11">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-11|title='We cannot look away': Oregon congresswoman says mom, 4 children have been held in federal custody for nearly 2 weeks|last1=DePaola|first1=Amy-Xiaoshi|last2=McCarty|first2=Alma|url=https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-mom-4-kids-detained-weeks-customs-and-border-protection-peace-arch-park/283-c1d2b1be-cc4b-4b9c-bb09-97cd5515e7e7|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250714005756/https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-mom-4-kids-detained-weeks-customs-and-border-protection-peace-arch-park/283-c1d2b1be-cc4b-4b9c-bb09-97cd5515e7e7|archive-date=2025-07-14}}</ref><ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-11">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-11|title=Portland family detained at Washington border facility for 2 weeks in apparent violation of immigration policy|last1=Brynelson |first1=Troy|url=https://www.kuow.org/stories/portland-family-detained-at-washington-border-facility-for-2-weeks-in-apparent-violation-of-immigration-policy|url-status=live|website=KUOW|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250716145728/https://www.kuow.org/stories/portland-family-detained-at-washington-border-facility-for-2-weeks-in-apparent-violation-of-immigration-policy|archive-date=2025-07-16}}</ref> Kenia Merlos and her citizen children were detained while visiting Peace Arch State Park in Washington state; her husband was detained days later at their home.<ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-15">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-15|title=Immigration officials release Portland children detained near border|last1=Brynelson|first1=Troy|url=https://www.opb.org/article/2025/07/15/portland-oregon-tacoma-washington-merlos-family-ice-custody/}}</ref> Merlos and family had been near the border to take Merlos's mother, lawfully visiting the U.S. and Canada from Honduras on authorized visas, so she could enter Canada to visit another family member during her trip.<ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-15" /> The children's mother is lawfully permitted to live in the United States through 2029 and was in the U visa application process.<ref name="Soumyanath ICE 2025-07-17">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-17|title=Four U.S. citizen children detained by Border Patrol in WA released|last1=Soumyanath|first1=Sujena|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/four-u-s-citizen-children-detained-by-border-patrol-in-wa-released/|url-status=live|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-date=July 17, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250717183752/https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/four-u-s-citizen-children-detained-by-border-patrol-in-wa-released/}}</ref>
The family was denied access to lawyers by ICE.<ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-11" /> After two weeks of unconstitutional delays, they were allowed access to legal representation.<ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-15" /> Attorneys filed for an emergency judicial ruling on July 13, 2025.<ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-15" /> The U.S.-citizen children were released from custody by ICE after two weeks and given United States passports by the Federal government.<ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-15" /> United States federal judge Tana Lin ordered the U.S. government to stand down on any actions involving the family until she had time to review the case.<ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-15" />
The situation was not known to the public until it was disclosed by U.S. representative Maxine Dexter of Oregon, who became aware of the family's detention after being tipped off by personal contacts.<ref name="Soumyanath Oregon 2025-07-11" /> The parents of the children remained in custody.<ref name="Brynelson Oregon 2025-07-15" />
===Elaine Miles=== Elaine Miles, a Native American actress known for her roles in Northern Exposure and other productions, was stopped by four masked ICE agents who were traveling in a vehicle without front license plates while walking to a bus stop in Redmond, Washington on November 26, 2025. The agents questioned her tribal identification card and, when she attempted to call the number on the card to verify her identity, tried to confiscate her phone.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Uyehara |first1=Kai |title=Indigenous actor Elaine Miles says ICE called her tribal ID 'fake' |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-actress-elaine-miles-says-ice-called-her-tribal-id-fake/ |access-date=29 November 2025 |work=Seattle Times |date=26 November 2025}}</ref>
===Francisco Miranda=== U.S. citizen Francisco Miranda of Milwaukie, Oregon, was detained by ICE after being targeted outside of his workplace on October 2, 2025. Miranda sent a tort claim to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem through his attorney on October 6.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Bartholomew |first1=Holly |date=2025-10-09 |title=US citizen to file suit after targeted ICE arrest in Portland |url=https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/09/milwaukie-man-ice-arrest/ |work=OPB |archive-date=February 1, 2026 |access-date=February 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260201171856/https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/09/milwaukie-man-ice-arrest/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Hugo Monteiro=== Hugo Monteiro, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Brazil, was detained by ICE at the Massachusetts District Court in Medford in May 2025; Monteiro was detained prior to ICE agents identifying him.<ref name="Harvard ICE 2025-05-16">{{Cite web|date=2025-05-16|title=Naturalized U.S. Citizen Briefly Detained by ICE Outside of Cambridge District Courthouse in Medford|last1=Josephy|first1=Matan H.|last2=Shugart|first2=Laurel M.|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/16/hugo-monteiro-ice/|url-status=live|website=The Harvard Crimson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250725034141/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/16/hugo-monteiro-ice/|archive-date=2025-07-25}}</ref>
===Daniel Montenegro=== U.S. citizen Daniel Montenegro was detained by ICE in Van Nuys, California in the summer of 2025 while he was filming a raid. Montenegro stated that he was tackled by several agents, injuring his back. Gregory Bovino later tweeted out his name and the names of three others, accusing them of using homemade tire spikes to disable vehicles, a claim that Montenegro denied. He was later released without charges.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Foy|first1=Nicole|date=2025-10-16|title=We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They've Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will|work=ProPublica|archive-date=October 16, 2025|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251016162303/https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Ruben Morales, Jr. and Jessie Olazaba=== On October 25, 2025 in Aurora, Illinois, U.S. citizens Ruben Morales, Jr. and Jessi Olazaba were detained by ICE after they began filming them outside of an elementary school. Olazaba was cited for impeding arrest. Morales was released without charges.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Leventis |first1=Evangeline|last2=Sheridan |first2=Jake|date=2025-10-30 |title=Chicago-area protesters recount detention by federal agents: 'I'm beat up'|url=https://www.macombdaily.com/2025/10/30/aurora-immigration-protesters-detained-ice/|work=Macomb Daily}}</ref>
===Jennifer Moriarty=== On October 31, 2025, ICE caused a vehicle crash in Evanston, Illinois. They detained three citizens, including Jennifer Moriarty, who an ICE agent tackled to the ground after she started filming the confrontation. An ICE agent also punched a man repeatedly in the face and then knelt on his back as a crowd called for them to stop. A DHS secretary later stated the man assaulted and kicked agents and grabbed an agent's genitals and would not let go. ICE agents also repeatedly pointed their weapons and pepper spray at the crowd, who were unarmed. Moriarty stated that the ICE agents drove her and the other two people who were detained around for several hours, attempting to cause other vehicles to hit theirs and threatening to mace them. She was released in downtown Chicago several hours later without charges. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said that the other two detainees were released.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Perry|first1=Hope|last2=Milwanowski|first2=Margo|last3=Harrison|first3=Alex|date=2025-11-01|title=Community members describe confrontation with federal agents|url=https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/01/evanston-immigration-clash-car-crash/|work=Evanston Round Table|archive-date=December 2, 2025|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251202140633/https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/01/evanston-immigration-clash-car-crash/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Small |first1=Alonzo |title=Evanston community rallies after immigration operation leads to clashes, school closures |url=https://wgntv.com/evanston/evanston-leaders-to-address-recent-federal-agent-activity/ |publisher=WGN9 |access-date=5 November 2025 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
===Abdikadir Noor=== The ACLU of Minnesota alleges in a lawsuit that Abdikadir Noor, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Fridley, Minnesota, had the vehicle he was driving stopped and detained by ICE agents who disparaged his national origin.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Magan |first1=Christoper |title=ACLU of Minnesota sues ICE over alleged mistreatment of observers |url=https://www.startribune.com/aclu-of-minnesota-sues-ice-over-alleged-mistreatment-of-observers/601548112 |access-date=14 January 2026 |work=Minnesota Star Tribune |date=17 December 2025 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
===Julio Noriega=== U.S. citizen and native Chicagoan Julio Noriega,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cardona-Maguigad |first=Adriana |date=2025-03-13 |title=Chicago attorneys accuse federal agents of violating immigrants' rights and take legal action |url=https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/03/13/chicago-attorneys-accuse-federal-agents-of-violating-immigrants-rights-and-take-legal-action |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250313223642/https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/03/13/chicago-attorneys-accuse-federal-agents-of-violating-immigrants-rights-and-take-legal-action |archive-date=2025-03-13 |access-date=2025-06-04 |work=WBEZ |language=en}}</ref> who has a learning disability that affects his comprehension,<ref name="Simons-2025">{{Cite web |last1=Simons |first1=Sasha-Ann |last2=Cardona-Maguigad |first2=Adriana |date=2025-03-17 |title=ICE agents allegedly fill out warrants after an arrest; U.S. citizen among those detained |url=https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/03/17/ice-agents-allegedly-making-arrests-without-warrants |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=WBEZ |language=en}}</ref> was out looking for work, handing out his resume at local businesses in Berwyn, Illinois, on January 31, 2025.<ref name="Malagón-2025">{{Cite web |last=Malagón |first=Elvia |date=2025-03-17 |title=Suburban Chicago family pleads for ICE to release father, a local business owner |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/03/17/immigration-arrest-ice-detention-trump-court |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Chicago Sun-Times |language=en}}</ref> He stopped for a slice of pizza, and was grabbed from behind by ICE, arrested without probable cause, handcuffed, and driven away in a van with other detainees. ICE took "his phone and wallet, which held his Social Security card and driver's license."<ref name="WaPo April 5">{{cite news |last1=Paúl |first1=María Luisa |date=April 5, 2025 |title=As Trump cracks down on immigration, U.S. citizens are among those snared |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250405110949/https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration/ |archive-date=2025-04-05 |access-date=May 4, 2025 |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref> The people in the van were driven around for hours and eventually taken to an ICE processing center in Broadview, Illinois,<ref name="Simons-2025" /> where he was detained for at least 10 hours without being questioned, still handcuffed and without access to food, water, or a bathroom.<ref name="WaPo April 5" /><ref name="Malagón-2025" /> He was released in the middle of the night after government officials checked his wallet and determined he was actually an American citizen.<ref>{{cite news |last=Coleman |first=Vernal |date=March 25, 2025 |title=Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law |access-date=May 11, 2025 |work=ProPublica}}</ref> Mark Fleming, the associate director of litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, said that ICE then "just sent him out to the street, even though he had no money and had no idea where he was",<ref name="WaPo April 5" /> nor a way to get home. ICE did not give Noriega any documentation of the arrest and detention, and later denied having any record of it, including body camera or other video.<ref name="Malagón-2025" />
===Hasan Piker=== thumb|Hasan Piker, a natural-born citizen of the United States, was detained by ICE. Hasan Piker, a Turkish-American online streamer, YouTuber, influencer, and left-wing political commentator born in New Jersey and a natural-born citizen of the United States, was detained by ICE on May 11, 2025, at O'Hare International Airport.<ref name="Dacosta Piker ICE 2025-05-13">{{Cite web|date=2025-05-13|title=Pro-Gaza streamer says he was detained at US airport|last1=Dacosta|first1=Shawn|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jwk6gjp1o|url-status=live|website=BBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250513110918/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jwk6gjp1o|archive-date=2025-05-13}}</ref> During his detention, Piker was asked a number of questions related to his political views, including about Trump, Israel, Hamas, and Houthis.<ref name="Machi Piker ICE 2025-05-14">{{Cite web|date=2025-05-14|title=Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker says he was detained, asked "Do you like Donald Trump?" at Chicago O'Hare|last1=Machi|first1=Sara|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/streamer-left-wing-commentator-hasan-piker-detained-ohare/|url-status=live|website=CBS News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250613045928/https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/streamer-left-wing-commentator-hasan-piker-detained-ohare/|archive-date=2025-06-13}}</ref> Piker was asked, "Do you like Donald Trump?"<ref name="Machi Piker ICE 2025-05-14" /> The BBC News compared Piker's detention by Trump immigration officials to the detentions of Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, who were detained by Trump officials for their political views.<ref name="Dacosta Piker ICE 2025-05-13" />
===Angel Pina=== Angel Pina was physically assaulted by ICE agents after they pursued him from a Stater Bros. store in Ontario, California in July 2025. Pina was detained by ICE, and ultimately sent to the hospital with a potential concussion and vomiting fits from this attack.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-07-22|title=US citizen detained after federal agents show up at Ontario Stater Bros. store|last1=Jory|first1=Rand|url=https://abc7.com/post/us-citizen-detained-federal-agents-show-ontario-stater-bros-store/17238509/|url-status=live|website=KABC-TV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250722171008/https://abc7.com/post/us-citizen-detained-federal-agents-show-ontario-stater-bros-store/17238509/|archive-date=2025-07-22}}</ref>
===Heidi Plummer=== Heidi Plummer of Orange County, California, said she was arrested by ICE at Centennial Regional Park in Santa Ana. Plummer, an attorney and an U.S. citizen of Ecuadorian ancestry, was detained during a mass apprehension of people of Hispanic background. Plummer's attorney stated, "They're going in and just grabbing Latinos. It's a clear violation of these individuals' constitutional rights." An ICE spokesperson claimed, "ICE was not at that park that day, nor did they make any arrests there." Likewise, a Santa Ana Police Department spokesperson stated that although they had personnel at the park that day, they were not aware of any raids.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-07-02|title='Shock and disbelief': U.S. citizen says ICE arrested her during Santa Ana park raid|last1=San Román|first1=Gabriel|url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2025-07-02/centennial-park-ice-raid-santa-ana|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250703002237/https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2025-07-02/centennial-park-ice-raid-santa-ana|archive-date=2025-07-03|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
===Miguel Angel Ponce Jr.=== On July 23, 2025, ICE agents demanded U.S. citizen Miguel Angel Ponce Jr. provide identification, and then immediately detained him. ICE agents claimed that Ponce had a "deportation order", despite Ponce having been born in College Station, Texas. Ponce was never provided a warrant and was instead shown a photograph of another man. ICE falsely claimed he was the other man, who was a violent child sex offender. After being released, Ponce was warned to alter his appearance by ICE, who told him, "Shave your beard off so we won't mistake you again."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-07-25|title='I was born in College Station' |last1=Ruiz|first1=Anayeli|url=https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/us-citizen-ice-detained-houston/285-11f4cb64-fa4a-4a65-8d5b-518413664987|url-status=live|website=KHOU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250727031147/https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/us-citizen-ice-detained-houston/285-11f4cb64-fa4a-4a65-8d5b-518413664987|archive-date=2025-07-27}}</ref>
===Rob Potylo=== Rob Potylo, aka "Robby Roadsteamer", a U.S. citizen and comedian from Massachusetts known for his anti-Trump song parodies, was arrested by ICE outside of an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon on October 15, 2025. He had been singing his parody songs in a giraffe outfit when ICE accused him of crossing a blue line in front of the facility that was off limits to protesters. Video footage contradicted ICE's statement, showing that Potylo was nowhere near the blue line. Potylo was detained for about an hour and released with a citation for failure to obey an officer of the law. He stated that he planned to file a lawsuit against ICE for wrongful arrest.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=McCann Ramirez |first1=Nikki |date=2025-10-17 |title=Comedian Arrested in Giraffe Suit Says ICE Laughed at His Trump-Epstein Jokes |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-arrests-protest-comedian-robby-roadsteamer-jokes-1235449651/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=February 20, 2026 |archive-date=February 7, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260207015225/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-arrests-protest-comedian-robby-roadsteamer-jokes-1235449651/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Potylo was arrested a second time at a protest outside the ICE building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota on January 12, 2026. He was again wearing the giraffe outfit when agents arrested him. After his release, Potylo again stated he would file a lawsuit against ICE.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Uren |first1=Adam |title=Anti-ICE protester dressed in giraffe costume is released from custody |url=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/anti-ice-protester-dressed-in-giraffe-costume-is-released-from-custody |website=Bring Me the News |access-date=January 15, 2026 |date=January 13, 2026}}</ref>
===Aliya Rahman=== [[File:U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman is dragged from her car and arrested (1.13.26 Tear Gas Day 2.ben) (2026-01-13).webm|thumb|right|250x250px|start=13:44|thumbtime=15:10|U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman is dragged from her car and arrested on January 13, 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=MPR News |date=2026-01-13 |title=Woman dragged by ICE agents into unmarked car, private data being used to intimidate observers |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-enforcement-shooting-in-minnesota-latest-tuesday |access-date=2026-02-25 |website=MPR News |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|At 12:07 in this video, Rahman can be seen blocking traffic with five agents urging her to move. At 13:01, she partially turns and stops in the intersection. Again, agents urge her to move. At 13:05 she moves ahead a few feet and stops again. Agents urge her to move. At 13:50, an agent smashes her right window and urges her to leave. At 14:02, agents order Rahman out of the car. At 14:07, agents open Rahman's door and attempt to drag her out. Rahman struggles with agents until she is handcuffed at 15:00. At 15:08 she falls and agents carry her off by her shoulders and legs. At 15:45 Rahman states she is autistic and has a brain injury. At 16:43, still struggling, Rahman is loaded into an unmarked vehicle.}} ]] U.S. citizen Rahman was driving to a doctor's appointment in Minneapolis when she encountered ICE agents at an intersection. One agent smashed her car window before others dragged her out of the vehicle. Rahman said she was denied medical treatment and lost consciousness while in custody.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Riddle |first1=Safiyah |last2=Brumfield |first2=Sarah |last3=Golden |first3=Hallie |title=Federal immigration agents filmed dragging a woman from her car in Minneapolis |url=https://apnews.com/article/aliya-rahman-minneapolis-ice-arrest-videos-b277e328a2053fde361c6a74295efb06 |website=The Associated Press |access-date=January 16, 2026 |date=January 15, 2026}}</ref> A DHS spokesperson stated that Rahman "ignored multiple commands by an officer to move her vehicle away from the scene."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Rebecca |title=Federal immigration agents filmed dragging a woman from her car in Minneapolis |url=https://www.ksat.com/news/national/2026/01/16/federal-immigration-agents-filmed-dragging-a-woman-from-her-car-in-minneapolis/ |access-date=19 January 2026 |publisher=KSAT |date=15 January 202}}</ref>
She was later invited to the 2026 State of the Union Address and was arrested for standing up and ignoring Capitol Police commands to sit down.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cameron |first=Chris |last2=Gold |first2=Michael |date=2026-02-25 |title=Ilhan Omar Condemns Guest’s Arrest at Trump’s State of the Union |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/ilhan-omar-state-of-the-union-arrest.html |access-date=2026-02-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
===Javier Ramirez=== Javier Ramirez, a U.S. citizen born in San Bernardino, California, was detained by ICE on June 13, 2025, during an ICE raid at his workplace in Montebello. Ramirez was tackled and detained after informing his coworkers that ICE had arrived, and targeted by the agents in response. The U.S. Attorney's Office stated that Ramirez is expected to be charged with allegedly assaulting a federal officer.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Stallworth |first1=Leo |date=2025-06-13 |title=Man arrested by ICE agents at Montebello tow yard is US citizen, family says |url=https://abc7.com/post/man-arrested-ice-agents-montebello-towing-yard-is-us-citizen-family-says/16743898/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250615024203/https://abc7.com/post/man-arrested-ice-agents-montebello-towing-yard-is-us-citizen-family-says/16743898/ |archive-date=2025-06-15}}</ref>
===Jose Roberto Ramirez=== On the afternoon of January 8, 2026, ICE agents took U.S. citizen Jose Roberto Ramirez into custody in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. According to family members ICE agents assaulted him after asking for his identification, then handcuffed him and took him away. He was released later that afternoon. Ramirez was born in Minneapolis; his father is from Mexico and his mother is a member of the Red Lake Nation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hyatt |first1=Kim |last2=Barnett |first2=Sofia |title=U.S. citizen swept up in ICE enforcement as Twin Cities operation continues |url=https://www.startribune.com/us-citizen-arrested-ice-day-after-fatal-shooting-renee-good-twin-cities-immigration-operation/601560460 |access-date=9 January 2026 |work=Minnesota Star Tribune |date=9 January 2026 |archive-date=January 9, 2026 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20260109061431/https://www.startribune.com/us-citizen-arrested-ice-day-after-fatal-shooting-renee-good-twin-cities-immigration-operation/601560460 |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Kristina Ramirez=== Chicago resident and U.S. citizen, Kristina Ramirez, was detained on May 28, 2025 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with her husband, who has a pending U.S. visa application. While on a business trip in Michigan, Ramirez and her husband Sergio Serna Ramirez mistakenly approached the Canadian border after a wrong turn in their car. Kristina claims she was held for three days. A CBP spokesperson countered, "CBP has no indication Mrs. Ramirez was held for three days." Her husband was transferred to an ICE facility.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-08-21|title=US Citizen Says She Was Detained by CBP for 3 Days After Wrong Turn|last1=Taheri|first1=Mandy|url=https://www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-detained-cbp-3-days-after-wrong-turn-2117170|url-status=live|website=Newsweek|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250822155527/https://www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-detained-cbp-3-days-after-wrong-turn-2117170|archive-date=2025-08-22}}</ref> According to Mr. Ramirez, he was detained for three months before he decided to self-deport to Mexico at the advice of his lawyer.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Norkol |first1=Mary |title=Midlothian man with green card detained by ICE for months before returning to Mexico, wife says |date=13 September 2025 |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/12/midlothian-man-with-green-card-detained-by-ice-for-months-before-returning-to-mexico-wife-says |publisher=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=24 October 2025 |archive-date=November 1, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251101094446/https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/12/midlothian-man-with-green-card-detained-by-ice-for-months-before-returning-to-mexico-wife-says |url-status=live }}</ref>
===George Retes=== George Retes, a disabled United States military veteran and U.S. citizen, was detained by ICE agents during a raid on a farm in California on July 10, 2025.<ref name="Haskell Retes ICE 2025-07-17" /> Retes identified himself as a United States citizen and employee of the farm that was raided by ICE agents.<ref name="Brenes Retes 2025-07-14">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-14|title=Disabled veteran detained during immigration raid speaks out, alleges civil rights violations|last1=Brenes|first1=Angelique|url=https://ktla.com/news/local-news/disabled-veteran-detained-immigration-raid-speaks-out/|url-status=live|website=KTLA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250716022107/https://ktla.com/news/local-news/disabled-veteran-detained-immigration-raid-speaks-out/|archive-date=2025-07-16}}</ref> Retes was then pepper sprayed, tear gassed, his car window smashed, and he was removed from his vehicle at gunpoint by ICE agents.<ref name="Brenes Retes 2025-07-14" /> ICE agents physically tackled Retes despite his American citizenship.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05" />
During his detention, Retes was denied any phone call to notify anyone of his whereabouts, and was denied legal representation.<ref name="Brenes Retes 2025-07-14" /> While in ICE custody, Retes was denied medical treatment and forced to be covered in chemical weapons residue.<ref name="Brenes Retes 2025-07-14" /> Retes remained missing and his whereabouts unknown through July 12, 2025.<ref name="Haskell Retes ICE 2025-07-17">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-17|title=Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during SoCal immigration raid, family says|last1=Haskell|first1=Josh|url=https://abc7chicago.com/post/george-retes-disabled-vet-us-citizen-taken-during-camarillo-california-immigration-raid-glass-house-farms-family/17087192/|url-status=live|website=ABC 7 Chicago|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250715141722/https://abc7chicago.com/post/george-retes-disabled-vet-us-citizen-taken-during-camarillo-california-immigration-raid-glass-house-farms-family/17087192/|archive-date=2025-07-15}}</ref> He was released without charges on Sunday, July 13.<ref name="Rubinstein Retes ICE 2025-07-14"/> The office of U.S. House member Pramila Jayapal confirmed that Retes was held without access to legal representation and without charges for three days.<ref name="Houghtaling ICE 2025-07-16">{{Cite magazine|date=2025-07-16|title=MAGA Republican Says He Doesn't Care If ICE Detains U.S. Citizens|last1=Houghtaling|first1=Ellie Quinlan|url=https://newrepublic.com/post/198045/maga-republicans-ice-detains-us-citizens|url-status=live|magazine=The New Republic|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250717134605/https://newrepublic.com/post/198045/maga-republicans-ice-detains-us-citizens|archive-date=2025-07-17}}</ref>
===Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores=== The Roman-Flores twins, both U.S. citizens, were arrested December 9, 2025 after allegedly threatening to kill a Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary and calling for violence against immigration agents. The twins called to "shoot ICE on sight" on social media. They were arrested during a joint operation between DHS and the Absecon Police Department SWAT team. Emilio's charges include unlawful possession of an assault weapon, possession of prohibited weapons, conspiracy to make terroristic threats, criminal coercion, threats and cyber harassment. Ricardo is charged with alleged conspiracy to make terroristic threats. Both were taken to Absecon Police Department.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roker |first1=Raphael R. |title='Shoot ICE on sight': New Jersey twins arrested after threatening to kill federal officials online |date=December 9, 2025 |url=https://www.kwtx.com/2025/12/09/shoot-ice-sight-new-jersey-twins-arrested-after-threatening-kill-federal-officials-online/ |publisher=KWTX |access-date=12 December 2025}}</ref>
===Adrian Ruiz and Edgar Ruiz=== In September 2025, ICE detained Edgar and Adrian Ruiz, both U.S. citizens, while blocking their truck outside a local 7-Eleven store in Des Plaines, Illinois. ICE was attempting to capture Ruiz's father, an undocumented immigrant. During the incident, then-unidentified masked and armed men swarmed their vehicle, and Ruiz held the door closed in self-defense. Both brothers ran. Federal agents then tasered Ruiz "in the face" and detained him as nearby people "ran for their lives". The father did not run and was taken into custody.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-09-16|title=U.S. citizen tased and detained during ICE operation in Des Plaines, Illinois|last1=Terry|first1=Jermont|authorlink1=|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/u-s-citizen-tased-detained-during-ice-operation-des-plaines/|url-status=live|website=CBS News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250917210512/https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/u-s-citizen-tased-detained-during-ice-operation-des-plaines/|archive-date=2025-09-17}}</ref>
===Isaias Pena Salcedo=== In the city of Bell, California, United States citizen, Isaias Pena Salcedo was detained as he walked near a crowd of people protesting an immigration raid in June 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=El Reda |first1=Jad |last2=Vives |first2=Ruben |last3=Lin II |first3=Rong-Gong |date=2025-06-21 |title=Immigration raid at car wash sparks tense scene, hours of protests in Bell |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-20/immigration-raid-protesters-gather-in-bell-maywood |url-status=live |access-date=2025-12-18 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=June 21, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250621071032/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-20/immigration-raid-protesters-gather-in-bell-maywood }}</ref> No reason was given for his arrest and detention and Pena Salcedo states that he gave the officers his passport but they paid no attention or did not care as officers in masks arrested him and took him away in an unmarked car. It took his family and friends over 8 hours to locate him and he spent 70 hours in detention, including two vehicle transfers and three days in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.
Pena Salcedo reported that he and relatives were walking to get supplies for a birthday party when they came upon the crowd in front of Jack's Carwash and Detailing. As they walked, an unmarked immigration vehicle came through the parking lot close to Pena Salcedo. In videos on social media, Pena Salcedo can be seen in front of the vehicle as it approaches wherein he closes his fist and quickly taps it on the hood of the car in the crowd of people. He can be seen in the video immediately surrounded and taken away by masked officers with guns.
During his 70 hours in detention, Pena Salcedo reports that conditions were very poor. There were three people in his cell but only one mattress while the other two beds were bare metal bunks. He also said there was little food and he could not receive funds from his family for any supplies like a toothbrush. Pena Salcedo was also denied a call to his family. Immediately following his release, he still had not received word if he would be charged with any crime.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lugo |first=Amanda Del Cid |date=2025-06-24 |title=Inside 70 hours of hell for aspiring Marine detained in Bell immigration raid |url=https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/70-hours-hell-detained-in-bell-immigration-raid/ |access-date=2025-12-18 |website=LA Public Press |language=en-US}}</ref>
===Rafie Shouhed=== Rafie Shouhed, a U.S. citizen and car wash owner in Van Nuys, California, was detained by ICE agents on September 17, 2025. KNBC reported video showed Shouhed knocked to the ground by ICE agents in his business. After, when he went to speak with the agents, he was knocked down again, handcuffed, detained, and taken with his staff to a Federal facility. Shouhed was later released.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025-09-17|title=Video: Van Nuys car wash owner, US citizen, detained by federal agents|last1=Gonzalez|first1=Jonathan|last2=Jeong|first2=Helen|url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-van-nuys-car-wash-owner-us-citizen-detained-immigration/3779991/|website=KNBC|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-date=September 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250927001259/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-van-nuys-car-wash-owner-us-citizen-detained-immigration/3779991/|url-status=live}}</ref> A DHS sprokesperson stated that the raid resulted in the arrest of five illegal aliens from Guatemala and Mexico including one who was removed from the country twice in 2015. Shouhed has filed a $50 million claim against DHS.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Van Der Brug |first1=Sierra |title=79-year-old California car wash owner, a U.S. citizen, files $50 million claim over immigration raid, injuries |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/09/26/van-nuys-car-wash-owner-files-50m-claim-after-federal-agents-take-him-down-during-immigration-raid/ |access-date=21 April 2026 |publisher=The Mercury News |date=26 September 2025}}</ref>
===Barbara Stone=== Barbara Stone, a 71-year-old ICE observer in San Diego and U.S. citizen, was handcuffed, injured, and detained by ICE agents for eight hours on July 8, 2025.<ref name="Safchik Stone ICE 2025-07-10">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-10|title= ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court|last1=Safchik|first1=Joey|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-handcuffs-us-citizen-grandmother-san-diego-rcna218107|url-status=live|website=NBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250710222038/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-handcuffs-us-citizen-grandmother-san-diego-rcna218107|archive-date=2025-07-10}}</ref> In recorded videos, a group of masked men pursued her, detained her, and took Stone's possessions, claiming she assaulted an officer.<ref name="McCoy Stone ICE 2025-07-11">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-11|title=Why Did ICE Agents Arrest and Detain a 71-Year-Old U.S. Citizen?|last1=McCoy|first1=Robert|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-did-ice-agents-arrest-220046704.html|url-status=live|website=Yahoo! News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250715143923/https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-did-ice-agents-arrest-220046704.html?guccounter=1|archive-date=2025-07-15}}</ref> ICE agents refused to return her cellular phone; Stone reported ICE compared it to keeping a drug dealer's phone.<ref name="McCoy Stone ICE 2025-07-11" />
===ChongLy "Scott" Thao=== Thao, a Hmong-American naturalized citizen originally from Laos, was detained by ICE agents during a raid on his home. Thao was singing karaoke when federal agents arrived and detained him. The DHS said they were targeting two convicted sex offenders but the Thao family only knew one of them, the ex-husband of a family member, and he no longer resided at the home. DHS said Thao was detained because he refused to be fingerprinted or facially identified. Thao was in his underwear and was covered by his grandson's blanket and was led out of his home in his underwear during his arrest.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cardona |first1=Maria Alejandra |title=ICE broke into home, dragged barely clothed US citizen into snow |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/20/ice-arrests-barely-clothed-citizen/88262962007/ |website=USA Today |publisher=Reuters |access-date=January 20, 2026 |date=January 20, 2026 |archive-date=January 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260120180525/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/20/ice-arrests-barely-clothed-citizen/88262962007/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On April 13, 2026, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi announced his office was looking into the incident for possible kidnapping charges.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wild |first1=Whitney |last2=Von Quednow |first2=Cindy |title=Minnesota county investigates federal agents’ removal of US citizen from his home as a possible kidnapping |url=https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/us/chongly-thao-minnesota-investigation-kidnapping |website=CNN |access-date=April 21, 2026 |date=April 13, 2026}}</ref>
===Susan Tincher=== thumb|Susan Tincher at her welcome home party after being released from ICE detention on December 9, 2025
55-year-old Susan Tincher was arrested shortly after 6:30 a.m. in the Willard-Hay neighborhood of Minneapolis on December 9, 2025. Tincher was confronting agents who arrested three of her neighbors when agents surrounded and arrested her, placing her in a van. She was held in the Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota for five hours before being released.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Taheri |first1=Mandy |title=US Citizen Speaks Out After She Was Detained by ICE |url=https://www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-speaks-out-after-she-was-detained-by-ice-11189654 |website=Newsweek |access-date=December 10, 2025 |date=December 10, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Collins |first1=Jon |title=Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/09/federal-agents-arrest-citizen-observer-watching-ice-north-minneapolis |website=MPR News |access-date=December 10, 2025 |date=December 9, 2025}}</ref> ICE stated Tincher was arrested after she assaulted a federal agent, tried to pass through a security perimeter, ignored commands, and became violent. Tincher said she will be charged with alleged obstruction.<ref>{{cite web |title=Woman says she was detained by ICE in Minneapolis for being a 'citizen observer' |date=December 10, 2025 |url=https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/woman-says-she-was-detained-by-ice-in-minneapolis-for-being-a-citizen-observer/ |publisher=KSTP |access-date=12 December 2025}}</ref>
===Fernando Vazquez=== Fernando Vazquez, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen, was detained by Border Patrol in November 2025 while he was at work in Cary, North Carolina. The agents detained him in their van, took him roughly {{convert|2|mi|spell=in}} down the street, and then released him after realizing that he was a citizen. The agents also threw his wallet and other personal items on the ground, causing Vazquez to lose several personal items. Vazquez believes that he was targeted because he is Latino. Another Hispanic man, who was not released, asked Vazquez to contact his brother for him, which Vazquez said "broke [his] heart".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Daniely |first=Willie |date=19 November 2025 |title=NC immigration sweep: Man alleges he was unlawfully detained by Border Patrol |url=https://www.wral.com/news/local/fernando-vazquez-border-patrol-detainment-story/ |access-date=13 January 2026 |website=WRAL News}}</ref>
===Andrea Vélez=== U.S. citizen Andrea Vélez was arrested by ICE agents in Los Angeles on June 24, 2025.<ref name="Smith Velez ICE 2025-06-25">{{Cite web|date=2025-06-25|title= ICE detains a U.S. citizen in L.A. and charges her with obstructing an arrest|last1=Smith|first1=Patrick|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detained-us-citizen-l-charged-obstructing-arrest-rcna215481|url-status=live|website=NBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250627135811/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detained-us-citizen-l-charged-obstructing-arrest-rcna215481|archive-date=2025-06-27}}</ref> Vélez was detained moments after leaving a car to be dropped off at work in downtown, and forced into unmarked vehicles by masked men, who spoke to her in Spanish.<ref name="Caro Americans ICE 2025-07-04">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-04|title=Latinos denounce ICE's use of racial profiling to detain US citizens: 'I am American'|last1=Caro|first1=Patricia|url=https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-04/latinos-denounce-ices-use-of-racial-profiling-to-detain-us-citizens-i-am-american.html|url-status=live|website=El País|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250706161729/https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-04/latinos-denounce-ices-use-of-racial-profiling-to-detain-us-citizens-i-am-american.html|archive-date=2025-07-06}}</ref> Family members of Vélez were unable to locate or discover her whereabouts for days.<ref name="Perez Vélez 2025-06-26">{{Cite web|date=2025-06-26|title=Family members outraged as U.S. citizen detained by federal agents in downtown LA on way to work|last1=Perez|first1=Laurie|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/family-members-outraged-u-s-citizen-detained-federal-agents-downtown-la/|url-status=live|website=CBS News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250625202056/https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/family-members-outraged-u-s-citizen-detained-federal-agents-downtown-la/|archive-date=2025-06-25}}</ref> Vélez was detained for a total of two days after being detained by ICE agents.<ref name="Velez ICE KNBC 2025-08-11">{{Cite web|date=2025-08-11|title=US citizen detained by ICE was held without water for 24 hours, she says|last1=Chang|first1=Hetty|last2=Rendon|first2=Karla|url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-was-held-without-water-for-24-hours-she-says/3762874/|url-status=live|website=KNBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812143345/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-was-held-without-water-for-24-hours-she-says/3762874/|archive-date=2025-08-12}}</ref> ICE agents did not question Vélez about any citizenship status until after she was already physically detained and "carried away".<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05" /> For 24 hours of her detention, Vélez was denied access to drinking water.<ref name="Velez ICE KNBC 2025-08-11" /> Vélez was charged with allegedly assaulting a federal officer and released on bail.<ref name="Smith Velez ICE 2025-06-25"/> Her case was dismissed by the U.S. Department of Justice.<ref name="Velez ICE KNBC 2025-08-11"/>
===Leonardo Garcia Venegas=== American-born citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas was detained in a vehicle following an immigration raid in Foley, Alabama, in May 2025. He was subsequently released after giving authorities his Social Security number. Garcia's brother, who is not a U.S. citizen, was arrested during the raid. According to Garcia and his cousin, the authorities conducting the raid saw Garcia's REAL ID and called it fake before detaining him.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gamboa |first=Suzanne |date=May 23, 2025 |title=U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-immigration-raid-real-id-handcuffed-alabama-rcna208794 |access-date=May 24, 2025 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=May 24, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250524000725/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-immigration-raid-real-id-handcuffed-alabama-rcna208794 |url-status=live }}</ref> The dismissal of Garcia's Real ID as fake was identified as racial profiling.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05" /> On September 30 the Institute for Justice filed a class action lawsuit naming defendants including the U.S. and the unnamed agents who arrested and detained Garcia. The lawsuit asked for damages for assault, battery and false arrest for Garcia; a declaration that the ICE policies leading up to them were unconstitutional, arbitrary and capricious; and an injunction against applying them against Garcia and anyone in a similar situation.<ref>{{cite web |title=CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT |url=https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71498589/1/venegas-v-homan/ |website=www.courtlistener.com |publisher=Court Listener |access-date=2 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Tim |title=Lawsuit filed against immigration authorities after U.S. citizen's arrests in raids |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-crackdown-lawsuit-courts-citizens-latino-alabama-a6bfae9528e03243ec08e9ade182da2f |access-date=2 October 2025 |work=Associated Press |date=1 October 2025}}</ref>
===William Vermie=== On January 13, 2026, Iraq War veteran William Vermie was detained by ICE agents while observing an arrest. Vermie said that while in custody, he repeatedly asked to make a phone call but was not allowed one. His attorney said he was not allowed to see Vermie because Vermie had not requested him by name.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wolfe |first1=Morgan |title=Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney |url=https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/ice-in-minnesota/army-veteran-ice-agents-detained-without-access-attorney/89-2c0a17b4-78da-452d-9b6e-47e2ebb6fd31 |website=KARE 11 |access-date=January 20, 2026 |date=January 19, 2026}}</ref>
===Jeane "Blue" Wong=== San Diego resident and U.S. citizen Jeane "Blue" Wong was detained by ICE on July 2, 2025.<ref name="Wallace SD ICE 2025-07-31">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-31|title=Linda Vista resident, U.S. citizen detained by ICE, raises awareness after court hearing|last1=Wallace|first1=Gabrielle|url=https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/07/31/linda-vista-citizen-detained-ice-raises-awareness/|url-status=live|website=Times of San Diego|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250801024005/https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/07/31/linda-vista-citizen-detained-ice-raises-awareness/|archive-date=2025-08-01}}</ref> Wong was detained during a protest targeting ICE immigration raids in Linda Vista.<ref name="Binkowski SD ICE 2025-07-03">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-03|title=Advocates say U.S. citizen among group arrested by feds after clash in Linda Vista|last1=Binkowski|first1=Brooke|url=https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/07/03/u-s-citizen-group-arrested-federal-after-clash-in-linda-vista/|url-status=live|website=Times of San Diego|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250704040939/https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/07/03/u-s-citizen-group-arrested-federal-after-clash-in-linda-vista/|archive-date=2025-07-04}}</ref> In an Instagram video, Wong pushes into caution tape in front of ICE agents when one physically shoves her before detaining her.<ref name="Wallace SD ICE 2025-07-31" /> Wong did not disclose her first name to ''Times of San Diego'' "to level the playing field".<ref name="Wallace SD ICE 2025-07-31" /> Wong was transported to a holding facility and placed in what she described as solitary confinement.<ref name="Wallace SD ICE 2025-07-31" /> Wong later pled guilty to a federal misdemeanor assault charge for pulling down an HSI agent’s face covering. She was sentenced to 45 days of home detention. While on pre-trial release for this incident, Wong was arrested with five others at a sit-in protest at San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria’s office.<ref>{{cite news |title=San Diego activist who pulled down federal agent’s face mask sentenced in assault case |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/05/san-diego-activist-who-pulled-down-federal-agents-face-mask-sentenced-in-assault-case/ |access-date=21 April 2026 |publisher=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=5 March 2026}}</ref>
==Unidentified citizens== thumb|U.S. Marines arrive in Los Angeles, 2025. The Marines were under order of the Trump administration to protect federal buildings. They later detained a U.S. citizen.<ref name=marinesLA/>
A number of detained U.S. citizens are unidentified or unknown by name.
===Arizona citizens=== A U.S. Marshal was detained by ICE in Arizona in the summer of 2025 after officers mistakenly thought he was another person.<ref name="Marshall Captured ICE 2025">{{cite news |last=Helmore|first=Edward|title=US immigration agents mistakenly detain deputy marshal in Arizona |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/ice-agents-mistakenly-detain-us-marshal-arizona |newspaper=The Guardian |date=June 8, 2025 |access-date=June 13, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250608145644/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/ice-agents-mistakenly-detain-us-marshal-arizona|archive-date=2025-06-08}}</ref>
===California citizens=== ====Disabled teen==== On August 11, 2025, Border Patrol in Arleta, Los Angeles detained at gunpoint a disabled 15-year-old who was a United States citizen.<ref name="BP Marnin 2025-08-29">{{Cite web |last1=Marnin |first1=Julia |date=2025-08-20 |title=15-year-old US citizen held at gunpoint by ICE agents at CA school, claim says |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article311889096.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250829140717/https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article311889096.html |archive-date=2025-08-29 |website=Sacramento Bee}}</ref> The detained teen was described as having "significant disabilities" by Alberto M. Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District.<ref name="BP disabled child 2025-08-12">{{Cite web |last1=De Anda |first1=Mónica |date=2025-08-12 |title=Teen detained by federal agents outside Arleta school; LAUSD calls for 'no enforcement' zones |url=https://abc7.com/post/teenager-detained-federal-agents-outside-arleta-high-school-lausd-calls-limits-immigration-raids/17512823/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812155157/https://abc7.com/post/teenager-detained-federal-agents-outside-arleta-high-school-lausd-calls-limits-immigration-raids/17512823/ |archive-date=2025-08-12 |website=ABC News}}</ref>
DHS officials claimed the U.S.-born disabled teen was from El Salvador, a "MS-13 gang member with a previous gun-related conviction", an adult, and that the family asked Border Patrol to detain the teen.<ref name="BP Marnin 2025-08-29" /> LAUSD activated a "safe passage for students" plan to enhance all school bus services to cover any child. The school district has requested federal agents to honor a few block radius no-enforcement zone around each school.<ref name="BP disabled child 2025-08-12" />
====Los Angeles citizens (38)==== On July 23, 2025, the ''Los Angeles Times'' reported that as of that date at least 38 citizens in the city had been detained and arrested by ICE, with Trump administration officials attempting to secure grand jury indictments against them for various alleged offenses.<ref name="Queally Mejia Trump 2025-07-23" />
====Camarillo citizens (4)==== At least 4 U.S. citizens were detained by ICE in a raid on a cannabis farm on July 10, 2025. DHS stated that those arrested were "resisting or assaulting officers", but it is unclear how many of those arrested were protesting the raid and how many were employed at the farm.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conybeare |first=Will |date=12 July 2025 |title=Labor union says California university professor was taken during Camarillo immigration raid protest |url=https://ktla.com/news/local-news/labor-union-says-california-university-professor-was-taken-during-camarillo-immigration-raid-protest/ |access-date=13 January 2026 |website=KTLA5 |archive-date=December 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251214175506/https://ktla.com/news/local-news/labor-union-says-california-university-professor-was-taken-during-camarillo-immigration-raid-protest/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Illinois citizens=== In September 2025, a U.S. citizen of Chicago and his father, who is not a citizen, were both detained for several hours at the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois. The U.S. citizen was released, but the father remains in ICE detention out of state.<ref name="ChiTrib 11-15-25"/>
Four children who are U.S. citizens were detained by federal agents during a late night immigration raid on a building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago on September 30, 2025. They were dragged from their homes, zip-tied and detained by federal agents "until they could be placed in the care of guardians". Reports on the raid stated that some children were taken from the building while naked.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Liederman |first1=Mack |last2=Boyle |first2=Colin |last3=Bauer |first3=Kelly |date=2025-10-03 |title=Feds Detained 4 Children Who Are US Citizens During Controversial ICE Raid |url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/feds-detained-4-children-who-are-us-citizens-during-controversial-ice-raid/ |url-status=live |access-date=2025-10-05 |work=Block Club Chicago |archive-date=October 5, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251005012300/https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/feds-detained-4-children-who-are-us-citizens-during-controversial-ice-raid/ }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rahman |first=Billal |date=2025-10-03 |title=ICE Agents Dragged Naked Children Out of Homes in Chicago Raid: Neighbors |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-dragged-naked-children-out-homes-chicago-raid-10823150 |url-status=live |access-date=2025-10-05 |work=Newsweek |archive-date=October 3, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251003181009/https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-dragged-naked-children-out-homes-chicago-raid-10823150 }}</ref>
A 21-year-old U.S. citizen was detained by U.S. Border Patrol in a vehicle in Chicago on October 4, 2025 after they rammed into his car, following an incident where federal agents shot a woman.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Schuba |first1=Tom |last2=Hernandez |first2=Cindy |last3=Kuznikov |first3=Selena |last4=Puente |first4=Michael |last5=Norkol |first5=Mary |last6=Heater |first6=Kade |date=2025-10-04 |title=Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side |url=https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/04/federal-agents-shoot-woman-they-say-boxed-in-authorities-in-brighton-park |url-status=live |access-date=2025-10-05 |work=WBEZ |archive-date=January 30, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260130160446/https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/04/federal-agents-shoot-woman-they-say-boxed-in-authorities-in-brighton-park }}</ref>
A U.S. citizen with the first name "Angel" was grabbed off the street and pulled into a vehicle by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the South Chicago neighborhood of Chicago on October 15, 2025. The incident was captured on his cousin's ring camera. After interrogating him, agents dropped him off half a mile away from where they had pulled him into the vehicle.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tumulty |first=Bronagh |date=2025-10-15 |title=Chicago man claims armed agents abducted him, questioned his citizenship, despite being a native |url=https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/chicago-man-claims-armed-agents-abducted-him-questioned-his-citizenship-despite-being-a-native/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNdV5VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpBgHOiW_ifOWnKu8YEVew6jrwtX8apQfW-8nR_zRO6aq4yr160Cpm9YGaQq_aem_t02uhQg3x2pGihgjAsP09A |work=WGN 9 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
On October 25, 2025, ICE deployed tear gas in the Chicago neighborhoods of Old Irving Park and Avondale, in violation of a court order handed down on October 9. Three people were arrested, including two U.S. citizens, and an agent violently pushed a woman to the ground. A DHS secretary stated that the "two U.S. citizens were arrested for assaulting and impeding a federal officer." A children's Halloween parade was disrupted as a result.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Thrush|first1=Charles|date=2025-10-26|title=Feds Tear Gas Northwest Side Street, Disrupting Halloween Parade For Kids|url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/26/federal-agents-use-tear-gas-again-this-time-in-northwest-side-confrontations/|work=Block Club Chicago|archive-date=January 28, 2026|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260128095013/https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/26/federal-agents-use-tear-gas-again-this-time-in-northwest-side-confrontations/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Hutchinson|first1=Bill|date=2025-10-27|title=Border Patrol agents under fire for allegedly disrupting children's Halloween parade in Chicago|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/border-patrol-agents-fire-allegedly-disrupting-childrens-halloween/story?id=126900354|work=ABC News|archive-date=February 3, 2026|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260203095650/https://abcnews.go.com/US/border-patrol-agents-fire-allegedly-disrupting-childrens-halloween/story?id=126900354|url-status=live}}</ref>
On October 31, 2025, ICE detained at least three U.S. citizens in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago. One citizen was accused of assaulting a federal agent.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Myers|first1=Quinn|last2=Boyle|first2=Colin|date=2025-10-31|title=At Least 3 People — Including 2 Citizens — Detained By Immigration Agents In Albany Park Friday|url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/at-least-2-people-including-a-citizen-detained-by-immigration-agents-in-albany-park-friday/|work=Block Club Chicago|archive-date=November 8, 2025|access-date=February 20, 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251108191840/https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/at-least-2-people-including-a-citizen-detained-by-immigration-agents-in-albany-park-friday/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2025-10-31 |title=On Halloween, 'state-sponsored terror' in Chicago and the north suburbs|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/chicag-halloween-immigration-raids-evanston/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNy5PBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE3M2xWYUt4VXNEWDdVVkpmAR4-hQexu6waCaKjsYk-UjVqBVu14ZHheeEXhvsRvKPMXgCPKtttVq27PNr92Q_aem_3N9cHMd6ljJjWaACWU4ekA|work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>
===Key Largo behavioral therapist=== A video on December 3, 2025, showed DHS agents detaining a woman in medical scrubs in Key Largo, Florida as she screamed that she was a U.S. citizen. The DHS claimed the woman had refused commands to roll down her window during a traffic stop, leading agents to drag her out of her vehicle. Agents released her after verifying her identity. ''The Miami Herald'' interviewed the woman, a behavioral therapist who was driving to work. The woman denied the DHS's claim that she did not roll her window down, citing video of the incident.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chacin |first1=Ana Claudia |last2=Goodhue |first2=David |title=Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents' orders |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article313427795.html |website=The Miami Herald |access-date=December 8, 2025 |date=December 6, 2025 |archive-date=December 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251207104234/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article313427795.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The woman was driving her boyfriend's car. A law enforcement source stated he is in the country illegally.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chacin |first1=Ana Claudia |last2=Goodhue |first2=David |title=Woman forcefully detained in Keys was driving 'illegal' boyfriend's car, feds say |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article313401263.html |website=The Miami Herald |access-date=December 8, 2025 |date=December 5, 2025}}</ref>
===Lafayette, Louisiana woman=== On May 20, 2026, a Colorado-born Lafayette, Louisiana woman was detained by sheriff's deputies and ICE agents at a checkpoint set up at her apartment complex entrance. She presented deputies with her ID and social security card, but deputies claimed they were fake. ICE agents took her to a USCIS office in Lafayette, then to a processing center in Basile. After her attorney provided documents by email, she was released and driven back to Lafayette, though ICE took her social security card and told her she was not allowed to leave the state.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nolan |first1=Delaney |title=U.S. citizen stopped in Lafayette, shackled, and detained in Louisiana ICE facility |url=https://thelensnola.org/2026/05/23/u-s-citizen-stopped-in-lafayette-shackled-and-detained-in-louisiana-ice-facility/ |website=The Lens |access-date=May 24, 2026 |date=May 23, 2026}}</ref>
===Massachusetts citizens=== On September 26, 2025, ICE agents detained two U.S. citizen children of legal resident Hilda Ramirez Sanan as she accompanied her brother-in-law to a court hearing in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The agents broke out the drivers' side windows of the car Ramirez Sanan was driving, handcuffed her, tried to pull her 13-year-old son who is on the autism spectrum from the car and repeatedly questioned him as to his legal status. After local police asked ICE to check their identification, they were released.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gabbatt |first1=Adam |title=US green card holder sues ICE over claims of 'violent assault' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/ice-lawsuit-violent-assault |access-date=15 December 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=15 December 2025}}</ref>
===Minnesota citizens=== A Minnesota-born Somali American woman was arrested by ICE near the Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis on December 3, 2025, according to her family. The woman's cousin said ICE agents touched her inappropriately and mocked her hijab. She was let go after her husband showed authorities her passport card.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Manzoni |first1=Mike |title=U.S. citizen arrested during immigration crackdown, family says |url=https://www.fox9.com/news/u-s-citizen-arrested-during-immigration-crackdown-family-says |website=FOX 9 |access-date=December 8, 2025 |date=December 5, 2025 |archive-date=December 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251208060028/https://www.fox9.com/news/u-s-citizen-arrested-during-immigration-crackdown-family-says |url-status=live }}</ref>
On December 13, 2025, ICE agents stopped the U.S.-citizen son of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as he was driving away from a local Target store. Earlier, Omar's son had been praying in a local mosque when ICE agents entered. They left without incident. He was released after showing the U.S. passport Omar said he "always carries".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bettin |first1=Anthony |last2=Murphy |first2=Esme |title=Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-says-son-pulled-over-by-ice/ |access-date=15 December 2025 |work=WCCO-TV |date=14 December 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Stein |first1=Chris |title=Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled over her son in Minnesota |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/ilhan-omar-son-ice-minnesota |access-date=15 December 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=15 December 2025}}</ref>
The Minnesota Council on American-Islamic Relations reported it had received many calls from U.S. citizens who ICE had arrested or detained during its operations directed against Somalis and others in Minneapolis.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |last1=Vue |first1=Katelyn |title=U.S. citizen offered to show I.D. but was arrested by immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside |url=https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-arrest-cedar-riverside-minneapolis-somali-man/ |access-date=10 December 2025 |work=Sahan Journal |date=9 December 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hoff |first1=Jennifer |title=Somali man says he's an American citizen and speaks out after ICE detainment |url=https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/somali-man-says-hes-an-american-citizen-and-speaks-out-after-ice-detainment/89-72c1f603-9600-481d-b8e4-317777ad3723 |access-date=11 December 2025 |work=KARE-TV |date=10 December 2025}}</ref>
On January 7, 2026, two employees of a Target store in Richfield were detained at the store's entrance. Both employees are U.S. citizens.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nelson |first1=Joe |title=Protesters demand action after ICE arrests of U.S. citizen Target employees |url=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/protesters-demand-action-after-ice-arrests-of-u-s-citizen-target-employees |website=Bring Me the News |access-date=January 11, 2026 |date=January 11, 2026 |archive-date=January 11, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260111223205/https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/protesters-demand-action-after-ice-arrests-of-u-s-citizen-target-employees |url-status=live }}</ref>
Four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe were detained by ICE in Minneapolis on January 8, 2026. The four men, all homeless, were detained under a bridge. One of the men was released after a 12-hour hold.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schafer |first1=Amelia |title=Five Native Americans detained by ICE during ongoing raids in Minneapolis |url=https://ictnews.org/news/five-native-americans-detained-by-ice-during-ongoing-raids-in-minneapolis/ |website=ICT News |access-date=January 9, 2026 |date=January 9, 2026 |archive-date=January 10, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260110031141/https://ictnews.org/news/five-native-americans-detained-by-ice-during-ongoing-raids-in-minneapolis/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Du |first=Susan |date=12 January 2026 |title=Tribal leaders say ICE is detaining American Indians during immigration sweeps |url=https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/tribal-leaders-say-ice-detained-american-indians/ |access-date=13 January 2026 |website=Sahan Journal |archive-date=February 4, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260204132105/https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/tribal-leaders-say-ice-detained-american-indians/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As of January 14, 2026, the remaining three were located at the ICE detention center at Fort Snelling, the same place where the U.S. government imprisoned hundreds of Indigenous Americans during and after the Dakota War of 1862.<ref>MPR News Staff. (2026, January 13). South Dakota tribe Oglala Sioux demands release of Lakota men in Minneapolis detained by ICE. MPR News. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/south-dakota-tribe-oglala-sioux-demands-release-of-lakota-men-in-minneapolis-detained-by-ice</ref> Nick Estes, a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, called the Oglala tribal members' detention at Fort Snelling "a continuation on the monopoly of violence" and stated that the location has an "anti-Indigenous, specifically anti-Dakota, history."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brewer |first=Graham Lee |date=2026-01-13 |title=Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention |url=https://apnews.com/article/ice-minneapolis-tribal-citizens-immigration-detention-29ac43de85569b80bd64875388097ab6 |access-date=2026-01-15 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>
===New Jersey citizens=== Trump ICE officials raided Ocean Seafood Depot in Newark, New Jersey on January 23, 2025, and arrested several U.S. citizens, including military veterans, for claimed immigration violations.<ref name="Bauman ICE CBS 2025-01-24">{{Cite web|date=2025-01-22|title=Newark business "raided" by ICE agents, mayor says, multiple people detained|last1=Bauman|first1=Ali|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ice-raid-newark-new-jersey-business/|url-status=live|website=CBS News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250124133121/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ice-raid-newark-new-jersey-business/|archive-date=2025-01-24}}</ref> The owner of Ocean Seafood Depot confirmed the American citizens, including the military veteran, were arrested by ICE for not being able to immediately prove they were U.S. citizens with any form of papers.<ref name="Prater NY ICE 2025-01-24">{{Cite web|date=2025-01-24|title=ICE Agents Detain American Citizens in Newark Raid|last1=Prater|first1=Nia|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ice-agents-detain-american-citizens-in-newark-raid.html|url-status=live|website=New York Magazine | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250124160008/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ice-agents-detain-american-citizens-in-newark-raid.html | archive-date=2025-01-24}}</ref>
===Rhode Island courthouse intern=== In November 2025, a high school student and U.S. citizen employed as an intern at the Rhode Island Superior Court was detained outside the courthouse in Providence. The intern notified security that someone was taking photos of him; when questioned, the man identified himself as an ICE agent. As an associate judge prepared to drive the intern to his high school, agents surrounded the car and detained the intern. He was released after agents verified his identity.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Galgano Caroll Alvarado |first1=Taylor |title=A high school courthouse intern was mistakenly detained by ICE. State officials called it outrageous |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/us/rhode-island-intern-detained-ice |website=CNN |access-date=December 3, 2025 |date=November 22, 2025}}</ref><ref name="RI citizen ICE 2025-11-24">{{Cite web|date=2025-11-24|title=Anger after ICE agents seize high school intern, 16, at Rhode Island court in mistaken identity error|last1=Graziosi|first1=Graig|quote='A teenager. A U.S. citizen. Detained by ICE at a courthouse. This isn't law and order—this is intimidation. It doesn't protect our communities; it undermines them. It violates the trust people need to safely access the justice system,' Booker wrote. 'It wastes law-enforcement resources that should be focused on real dangers, not innocent kids. We must condemn this and demand accountability. America is better than this.'|url=https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agents-anger-teen-rhode-island-court-b2870967.html|url-status=live|website=The Independent|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204161958/https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agents-anger-teen-rhode-island-court-b2870967.html|archive-date=2025-12-04}}</ref>
===Wisconsin Puerto Rican family (3)=== In January 2026, family of U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico were detained in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin department store after ICE agents overheard them speaking Spanish. The family members—a toddler, the child's mother, and the child's grandmother—were all born in Puerto Rico.<ref name="Craig ICE 2025-01-29">{{Cite web |last1=Craig |first1=Sean |date=2025-01-29 |title=U.S. Citizens Reportedly Detained After Being Overheard Speaking Spanish |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-citizens-reportedly-detained-after-being-overheard-speaking-spanish |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250129191535/https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-citizens-reportedly-detained-after-being-overheard-speaking-spanish |archive-date=2025-01-29 |website=The Daily Beast}}</ref> All people born in Puerto Rico, like those born elsewhere in the United States, are automatically American citizens and lawfully allowed to freely travel anywhere within the country with immunity to immigration controls.<ref name="Jones-Shafroth Act"/> The family was denied access to legal representation during their detention.<ref name="Craig ICE 2025-01-29" /> ICE later released the family and apologized for their detention and removal attempt, but left them stranded at the detention center.<ref name="Walker ICE 2025-01-29">{{Cite web|date=2025-01-29|title=ICE Says 'Sorry' After Detaining US Citizens for Speaking Spanish: Report|last1=Walker|first1=Allison|url=https://www.latintimes.com/ice-says-sorry-after-detaining-us-citizens-speaking-spanish-report-573967|url-status=live|website=Latin Times| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250717103639/https://www.latintimes.com/ice-says-sorry-after-detaining-us-citizens-speaking-spanish-report-573967|archive-date=2025-07-17}}</ref>
==Responses by U.S. officials== ===Democratic Party=== In response to early reports of American citizens being detained, two Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin (the ranking member on the committee) and Pramila Jayapal (the ranking member on the immigration subcommittee), wrote Kristi Noem, the DHS secretary, and Caleb Vitello, the acting director of ICE enforcement, asking them to provide information about citizen detention. The February letter noted that ICE does not have authority to detain citizens, and stressed the importance of keeping "the escalating government assault on immigrants from becoming a steamroller that crushes the rights of American citizens."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gamboa |first=Suzanne |date=2025-02-04 |title=Rep. Jamie Raskin demands details on U.S. citizens caught up in ICE enforcement |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/rep-jamie-raskin-demands-details-us-citizens-caught-ice-enforcement-rcna190649 |access-date=2025-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207003940/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/rep-jamie-raskin-demands-details-us-citizens-caught-ice-enforcement-rcna190649|archive-date=2025-02-07|website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>
Democratic Party U.S. House member Pramila Jayapal on July 16, 2025, introduced to Congress the "Stop ICE from Kidnapping U.S. Citizens Act", which would bar ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens.<ref name="Houghtaling ICE 2025-07-16"/> The bill would also apply penalties to ICE for illegal detention of American citizens, but was seen as unlikely to become law under a Republican-controlled House.<ref name="Contreras ICE 2025-07-16">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-16|title=Bill would prevent ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens|last1=Contreras|first1=Russell|url=https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/ice-us-citizens-detention-racial-profiling|url-status=live|access-date=February 21, 2026|archive-date=July 16, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250716235609/https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/ice-us-citizens-detention-racial-profiling}}</ref>
Democratic House member Ted Lieu stated it was "batshit crazy" that laws needed to be introduced to prevent ICE from deporting U.S. citizens.<ref name="Contreras ICE 2025-07-16" />
New York governor Kathy Hochul declared her state "will not back down" and called the arrest of American citizens for immigration reasons "bullshit".<ref name="Guardian Lander 2025-06-17" />
===Republican Party=== thumb|Republican senator Tommy Tuberville claimed U.S. citizens being arrested was a consequence of associating with non-citizens, and mistakes are "gonna happen".<ref name="Houghtaling ICE 2025-07-16" /> United States conservatives and Republican Party members gave conflicting and contradictory statements on the detentions of American citizens, either endorsing, confirming or denying the practice. Tricia McLaughlin of the Department of Homeland Security claimed reports of U.S. citizens being arrested were false and used to demonize ICE agents.<ref name="Contreras ICE 2025-07-16" /> Meanwhile, Trump's border czar Tom Homan confirmed citizens were being detained and arrested by ICE.<ref name="Homan loser ICE 2025-07-13">{{Cite web|date=2025-07-13|title='Get out of here, you loser': Border czar Tom Homan lays into heckler and later admits US citizens are swept up in raids|last1=Bowden|first1=John|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/loser-border-czar-tom-homan-155054304.html|url-status=live|website=Yahoo! News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250715150541/https://www.yahoo.com/news/loser-border-czar-tom-homan-155054304.html|archive-date=2025-07-15|quote=Homan also admitted that ICE had made what he called 'collateral arrests' of American citizens in 'many' instances.}}</ref>
In May 2025, Republicans blocked a measure in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would have stopped ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens.<ref name="Contreras ICE 2025-07-16" />
====Troy Nehls==== Republican House member Troy Nehls accused media and the public of overstating the crisis of citizens being detained by ICE. Nehls stated American citizens should carry documentation to prove citizenship, saying "Well, maybe people can't prove that they're American citizens, either, have the documentation."<ref name="Houghtaling ICE 2025-07-16" />
====Ralph Norman==== Republican House member Ralph Norman stated that he was not concerned with the matter of American citizens being detained by ICE and disputed with journalists that it has happened.<ref name="Houghtaling ICE 2025-07-16" />
====Tommy Tuberville==== Republican senator Tommy Tuberville stated that U.S. citizens detained by ICE were at fault, saying mistakes are going to happen, and that citizens being arrested was a consequence of associating with non-citizens. Tuberville further stated, "Don't hang around illegals."<ref name="Houghtaling ICE 2025-07-16" />
==Responses by other parties== [[File:Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Mealtime in one of the messhalls at this War Relo . . . - NARA - 538170 (cropped).jpg|thumb|''El País'' compared the second Trump administration's immigration detention policies to the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (''pictured'').<ref name="País Manzanar 2025-04-22">{{Cite web |last1=Beauregard |first1=Luis Pablo |date=2025-04-22 |title=Camp Manzanar serves as a reminder to the United States of racist laws in other eras |url=https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-22/camp-manzanar-serves-as-a-reminder-to-the-united-states-of-racist-laws-in-other-eras.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250423035533/https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-22/camp-manzanar-serves-as-a-reminder-to-the-united-states-of-racist-laws-in-other-eras.html |archive-date=2025-04-23 |website=El País}}</ref>|alt=Black-and-white photo of Japanese-American detainees eating at a mess hall in Manzanar camp]] {{Immigration policy of the second Trump administration sidebar |expanded=detention}}
===American Civil Liberties Union=== The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), among other cases, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in Los Angeles over the matter of U.S. citizens being detained and assaulted by ICE agents. Among the court findings that were noted included:<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05" />
{{blockquote|Jason Brian Gavidia is a U.S. citizen who was born and raised in East Los Angeles and identifies as Latino. On the afternoon of June 12, he stepped onto the sidewalk outside of a tow yard in Montebello, California, where he saw agents carrying handguns and military-style rifles. One agent ordered him to "Stop right there" while another "ran towards [him]." The agents repeatedly asked Gavidia whether he is American—and they repeatedly ignored his answer: "I am an American." The agents asked Gavidia what hospital he was born in—and he explained that he did not know which hospital. "The agents forcefully pushed [Gavidia] up against the metal gated fence, put [his] hands behind [his] back, and twisted [his] arm." An agent asked again, "What hospital were you born in?"<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05" />}}
===Cato Institute=== The libertarian Cato Institute was critical of Trump's immigration regime, calling it illegal profiling, damaging, and harmful to American interests.<ref name="Bier Cato 2025-08-05"/>
==See also== {{div col}} * Alligator Alcatraz * Citizenship of the United States * Deportation of Americans from the United States * Due process * Impersonations of United States immigration officials * Internment of German Americans * Internment of Italian Americans * Internment of Japanese Americans * June 2025 Los Angeles protests * Kavanaugh stop * Killing of Renée Good * Killing of Alex Pretti * List of denaturalized former citizens of the United States * List of shootings by U.S. immigration agents in the second Trump administration * Operation Midway Blitz * Operation Wetback * Protests against mass deportation during the second Trump administration * Timeline of protests against Donald Trump * United States person * Visa and deportation controversies in the second Trump administration * Your papers, please {{div col end}}
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{{Second presidency of Donald Trump}}
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