https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/article\/can-ice-agents-detain-us-citizens-what-powers-do-they-have-to-arrest-people-your-most-common-questions-answered-194725171.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“As members of federal law enforcement, ICE officers have the authority to stop, detain and arrest people they believe to be in the country illegally. They need a warrant to arrest someone inside a private home or business. In public spaces, they can make arrests without a warrant, but they must have cause or reasonable suspicion to believe that the person is violating immigration laws.<\/p>\n
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“By the letter of the law, ICE only has the authority to detain, arrest or deport people who are believed to be in the country illegally.<\/p>\n
In practice, however, there are many accounts of American citizens being caught up in the administration\u2019s raids. The news site\u00a0ProPublica\u00a0identified upward of 170 incidents where citizens were held by immigration authorities, including some who were detained even after showing a legal government ID.<\/p>\n
ICE can detain citizens if they allegedly commit a crime, such as interfering with an immigration operation or assaulting officers. ProPublica\u2019s list includes 130 people who were held for alleged infractions, though those cases \u201coften wilted under scrutiny\u201d and very few resulted in convictions.<\/p>\n
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ICE\u00a0reported\u00a0that it had conducted 622,000 deportations since the start of Trump\u2019s second term on Jan. 20, 2025. While that\u2019s well short of the goal of 1 million annual deportations the administration had set for itself, it\u2019s still enough to shatter the\u00a0previous annual record\u00a0of 316,000 set during Barack Obama\u2019s presidency.”
\nhttps:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/article\/can-ice-agents-detain-us-citizens-what-powers-do-they-have-to-arrest-people-your-most-common-questions-answered-194725171.html<\/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":[87,2108,838,844,26,493,25,281,619],"class_list":["post-21042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-citizenship","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-ice","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-law-enforcement","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042","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=21042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21043,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042\/revisions\/21043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}