Among other things, Senator Elizabeth Warren demanded to know how many times ICE or the Border Patrol had detained U.S. citizens in the last five years and “what were the circumstances of these detentions.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has requested that the inspector general’s office of the Department of Homeland Security conduct an investigation into the detention of U.S. citizens by Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The two recent cases, Warren wrote, “represent a nightmare scenario in which U.S. citizens were stopped at the border or in the country, presented proof of their citizenship, were accused of no other crime, and were still held by ICE without recourse for hours or days at a time.”Among other things, Warren demanded to know how many times ICE or the Border Patrol had detained U.S. citizens in the last five years and “what were the circumstances of these detentions.
The letter also cites a Time magazine article that describes the detainment of 9-year-old U.S. citizen Julia Isabel Amparo Medina for about 32 hours in March 2018. She was on her way to school from Tijuana to San Ysidro, Calif. Though she showed her passport to officials at the border crossing, “CBP officers simply claimed she did not closely enough resemble the photograph on her card,” Warren’s letter states.
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