{"id":19679,"date":"2025-09-26T19:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19679"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:59:58","slug":"immigration-agents-held-a-u-s-citizen-and-veteran-for-3-days-without-checking-his-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19679","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Agents Held a U.S. Citizen\u2014and Veteran\u2014for 3 Days Without Checking His ID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;George Retes was denied access to an attorney, wasn\u2019t allowed to make a phone call, was not presented to a judge, and was put in an isolation cell before being released with no charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[he] was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ij.org\/press-release\/us-citizen-and-army-veteran-submits-claims-for-unconstitutional-immigration-detention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detained<\/a>&nbsp;by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies for three days and nights despite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2025\/09\/george-retes-ice-detained-us-citizen\/684152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">telling<\/a>&nbsp;officers he was an American citizen and his identification was in his nearby car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh released a concurring opinion essentially&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/11\/kavanaugh-flaunts-the-fourth-amendment-and-blesses-trumps-racial-profiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blessing<\/a>&nbsp;the use of racial profiling by the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration enforcers, even as critics warned American citizens&#8217; rights would inevitably be violated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stops of people who are legally in the country are &#8220;typically brief,&#8221; Kavanaugh asserted, &#8220;and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/12\/immigration-agents-held-a-u-s-citizen-and-veteran-for-3-days-without-checking-his-id\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/12\/immigration-agents-held-a-u-s-citizen-and-veteran-for-3-days-without-checking-his-id<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;George Retes was denied access to an attorney, wasn\u2019t allowed to make a phone call, was not presented to a judge, and was put in an isolation cell before being released with no charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[he] was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies for three days and nights despite telling officers he was an American citizen and his identification was in his nearby car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh released a concurring opinion essentially blessing the use of racial profiling by the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration enforcers, even as critics warned American citizens&#8217; rights would inevitably be violated.<br \/>\nThe stops of people who are legally in the country are &#8220;typically brief,&#8221; Kavanaugh asserted, &#8220;and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/12\/immigration-agents-held-a-u-s-citizen-and-veteran-for-3-days-without-checking-his-id\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2108,838,844,26,493,25],"class_list":["post-19679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-ice","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19680,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions\/19680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}