ICE detaining US citizens and claiming documents aren't real

[struggle4progress]

Strict Scrutiny
Jun 3, 2026

ICE detained a US citizen for 25 days and called her birth certificate fake. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick explains what these cases reveal about ICE's unchecked power.

[-misanthroptimist]

1. OMG, is she ever gonna be rich!

As someone who lives

[edhopper]

2. Not if it goes in front of a Trump judge

after all Kavanaugh said this is okay.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. What is next? that they pick a typical metro area, pick a neighborhood in the usually democratic neighborhoods,

and then let ICE run wild?

[rampartd]

6. yep.

[LisaL]

4. Apparently at least one US citizen actually got deported.

There was a thread on here about that.

[rampartd]

5. that will hapen with voting as well

remember obama's birth certificate?

[ChicagoTeamster]

7. ICE has more tools to research and verify a person's citizenship than any other agency. This is on purpose.

ICE was originally created in response to the flood of foreign organized crime elements coming into the US illegally to fill the vacuum left after the FBI worked with local jurisdiction to take down US organized crime in the mid to late 90s. They dismantled the leadership of street gangs and even some mafia families leaving a void of leadership for the mid-layer workers to cater to America's huge market for drugs, prostitution, and low priced stolen goods. Instead of just distributing to the sellers in the retail drug outlets, the cartels came in and ran the operations. Foreign mafia groups moved into auto theft, retail shoplifting, and home burglary crews.

Instead of having to investigate and gather testimony and evidence to convict the foreign organized crime elements in US courts, it was easier to just deport them.

So ICE has the tools. They're using racial profiling as a means of intimidation.