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New Bill Seeks to Stop ICE From Detaining or Deporting U.S. Citizens - News Facts Network
UNITED STATES, JUL 17 – The bill aims to impose penalties on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who unlawfully detain U.S. citizens amid multiple reported wrongful arrests during ICE raids, advocates say.
- On Wednesday, Rep. Pramila Jayapal put forward legislation aimed at preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wrongfully detaining or deporting U.S. citizens.
- This proposal follows numerous reports of wrongful arrests during ICE raids, especially targeting Latino communities and U.S. citizens wrongly detained.
- A prominent legal battle involves Alma Bowman, a Macon woman disputed as a U.S. citizen due to ICE questioning her parentage despite longstanding documentation and family claims.
- Hamilton stated obtaining DNA evidence from Bowman's deceased father could cost $20,000 to $30,000, while Bowman said detainees often lack adequate medical care in overcrowded facilities.
- The bill signals growing concern over ICE overreach and could impose penalties on agents, underscoring the complex challenges faced by immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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Rep. Jayapal introduces bill to prevent ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens
A Tufts University doctoral student arrested by ICE in March is now describing her conditions in detention, including a lack of food and feminine hygiene products. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) joins Ana Cabrera to react. She also shares more on her legislation to prevent ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens.
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Touchdown: Tuberville Has Blunt 4-Word Response When Asked About ICE Apprehending Citizens Along with Illegals
Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville was confronted at the Capitol building about the possibility of the accidental detention of American citizens during Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s raids on illegal aliens. […] The post Touchdown: Tuberville Has Blunt 4-Word Response When Asked About ICE Apprehending Citizens Along with Illegals appeared first on The Western Journal.
Macon woman spent her life thinking she was a U.S. citizen. Then ICE detained her twice
Born in the Philippines to an American father and Filipino mother, Alma Bowman came to the U.S. at age 10, grew up and had her own family as a citizen of the U.S. But the 59-year-old, ICE persists, is in the country illegally. GPB's Grant Blankenship explains.
'I'm not concerned': GOP lawmakers suggest US citizens who get deported are on their own
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) are facing backlash over their responses to a reporter asking whether they “care if U.S. citizens accidentally get detained in [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] ICE raids.”"No, I'm not concerned about that," Norman said in response to the question asked by a reporter on Capitol Hill Wednesday."I am concerned about law and order," he said. When the reporter pressed him about U.S. c…
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