Consider a plaintiff in an ACLU lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s anti-immigrant actions in Minnesota. After being stopped by ICE, he told them repeatedly, “I’m a citizen. I’m a citizen.” DHS agents told him “that don’t matter,” refused to look at his proof of citizenship, and drove him to an ICE building in south Minneapolis. Agents grabbed another witness in the lawsuit out of his car at a gas station, handcuffed him, and when he said, “I’m an American citizen,” they replied to him, “Why don’t you go back to your country?”
In Florida, the ACLU represented a man named Peter Sean Brown—a Black, natural-born U.S. citizen—who was unlawfully detained and nearly deported as a result of ICE’s collaboration with a Florida sheriff. While he wasn’t deported, we’ll likely see more cases like his if President Trump is successful in his attempt to end birthright citizenship.
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