'Immigration Holds' Used on U.S. Citizens
LOS ANGELES (CN - Immigration and Customs Enforcement used baseless and unconstitutional "immigration holds" to detain thousands of U.S. citizens and legal residents, a class action claims in Federal Court.
ICE last year issued 1 million detainers to local authorities nationwide. Of those, 28,489 were against permanent residents. Almost two-thirds of those permanent residents do not have criminal records, Gonzalez says in the complaint.
"ICE's issuance of immigration holds without probable cause to believe that a person is subject to removal has restrained and deprived of their liberty thousands of people who are not actually removable, including American citizens and lawful permanent residents without criminal convictions that would render them removable," the complaint states.
The Obama Administration has deported record numbers of people. Late last year, ICE said it had deported 409,849 immigrants in the 2012 fiscal year. Between July 2010 and September 2012, ICE deported more than 200,000 undocumented immigrants who have children who are U.S. citizens, according to ICE data obtained by online magazine Colorlines
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