GRIEVANCE XI ◆ LIBERTY AND DUE PROCESS
He has permitted a dragnet in which even citizens of the republic are seized and confined.
THE RECORD SHOWS
ProPublica documented more than 500 reported detentions of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents from January 2025 through September 2026.
ProPublica assembled incidents from public records, reporting, and video; its count is not an official government tally. PBS NewsHour interviewed its investigators on October 21. The cases include citizens taken in immigration operations and people arrested around protests or encounters with agents.
A DOCUMENTED SEQUENCE
3 MILESTONES- 2025–26Reports of citizens detained during immigration actions accumulated; the federal government did not publish a comprehensive citizen-detention count.
- October 6, 2026ProPublica released a case-based accounting of more than 500 U.S. citizens detained, including children, using public records and first-hand reporting.
- October 21, 2026PBS NewsHour interviewed ProPublica investigators after another California citizen’s alleged injury and detention.
READ THE SOURCES
6 LINKS- Federal Agents Have Detained More Than 500 American Citizens in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
- Investigation finds hundreds of citizens detained by ICE
- U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated
- A bill would help American citizens wrongfully detained by immigration officers
- What happens to children when immigrant parents are detained by ICE
- How the Trump administration’s deportation policies have affected migrants and citizens