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Have US citizens been deported by their own government? After investigating this question for our exclusive report on Al Jazeera I can honestly say yes they are. Research by Jacqueline Stevens, a political scientist at Northwestern University, shows that up to one percent of all detainees at immigration detention centers are US citizens.   It’s hard to know exactly how many citizens get deported every year. If that one percent figure was constant throughout all deportations – that would mean 4,000 US citizens a year are deported. While that’s a high estimate, the fact that it’s happening at all demands clear and urgent answers.   Stevens says it’s an indicator of the abuses that are rife throughout the deportation machine. “It’s a symptom of the lawlessness of the deportation legal system. If US citizens go into the system with their full civil rights and they’re unable to challenge their unlawful deportation that tells us a lot about the more precarious situation of everybody else who may not have the same rights as a citizen.”

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Despite their records, both also have strong evidence of their citizenship.  Andrés’s evidence was so strong that the government eventually let him back into the US and issued him with a passport card and certificate of citizenship. The certificate says he became a citizen in 2002, six years before he was deported. But that was only after he spent nearly three years in Mexico.   An Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, spokesperson told us that Andrés never mentioned in his deportation hearing that he was a citizen. But he did mention it in his interrogation. Still ICE officials didn’t look into his claims – despite viewing with him a photo of his father showing he was a citizen.   Andrew Free is Robles’ lawyer. He says alarm bells should have sounded for those asking the questions during that interrogation but that it’s hard to stop the deportation machine once it begins: “When you look at the records that ICE created where Andres is claiming he’s a US citizen, and then not three months later the US is putting him on a plane and walking him across the US-Mexico border, it seems that something had to have broken down.” Free also blames deportation quotas. “Right now the Obama administration wants to deport 400,000 people per year. It wants to put 34,000 people in detention centres per night because Congress has mandated that,” he said. “People were looking for a reason to detain him. That was what they were measured by and that’s what the government and Andrés got.”

15 Jun 2014

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i didn't miss #makeaterriblecomicday, there's still more than an hour left in my timezone, it's fiiiine! much like i'm sure YOU didn't miss this buny's really cool trick!

...r-right?? oh dear

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I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usual ‘are they dead now?’ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just like ‘Yes, they’re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.’ and then one kid was like ‘Except for you’.

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the tiktok itself is funny but i’m deeply obsessed with this dog

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ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

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the start of a comic i was making in 2023 about a mosquitos point of view

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when one of your shy mutuals puts something WILD in the tags

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We need to bring back the athletics body type post

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that's him

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Nice url

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH A PUNJABI WOMAN IN PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S HOCKEY ‼️‼️ FROM THE UBC THUNDERBIRDS ‼️‼️‼️ AND SHE'S GOING TO BE ON MY BELOVED PWHL VANCOUVER ‼️‼️‼️ MY LIFE IS A DREAM 💙

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GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING