10/14/2026
BREAKING🚨 ICE DETAINED more than 100 American citizens because agents doubted they were citizens. Nearly all of them were people of color.
In Charlotte last November, Border Patrol agents smashed the truck window of W***y Wender Aceituno, a naturalized citizen who voted for Trump twice. They threw him onto pavement covered in broken glass, and one agent knelt on his back. DHS says he "refused to comply." He was let go bleeding on the side of the road, two miles from his truck. His U.S.-born daughter now carries her passport at college. "My daughter's white friends aren't carrying their passports," he said.
In April, Brian Morales Garcia was riding in a car that got pulled over in central Texas. He told the officers, "I'm a citizen, it's fine." They wouldn't let him get his birth certificate. They held him for four days without letting him call his lawyer or anyone else. Then they deported him to Mexico. In court filings, officials claimed he had admitted being born in Mexico. He sued, and last month he was let back into the country on his American birth certificate.
Morales Garcia is one of 506 U.S. citizens held by immigration agents between January 2025 and September 2026. The government doesn't keep count, so every one of them had to be identified by name.
More than 100 were held because agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all were people of color. At least 70 were children and teens, and about 20 of those kids were handcuffed or zip-tied. 36 people were held for at least a day with no way to reach a lawyer or family. Roughly a dozen citizens were deported, mostly children.
DHS has said "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." During the Chicago crackdown known as Operation Midway Blitz, it said there were "no administrative arrests of U.S. citizens." At the height of that surge, agents detained more than 120 citizens in Illinois.
More than 300 citizens were grabbed after agents accused them of assaulting or obstructing officers. Only 137 were charged in federal court, and nearly half of those cases were dropped or dismissed. At least 63 were detained for filming agents. One of them was a 14-year-old in Brownsville, Texas, who said an agent tackled him and drove a knee into the back of his leg.
Darius Reeves ran ICE's Baltimore office until he retired last year, as ProPublica first reported. "I've never seen so many U.S. citizen encounters in all my years," he said. "It's an embarrassment."
Witnesses estimate that more than 200 citizens were detained in a single Idaho raid. Only 30 could be identified by name, so only 30 made the count.
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