Estimates suggest 1 to 1.5 percent of people detained or deported might actually be American citizens. Do the math. With detention numbers over 60,000, that’s hundreds of wrongful detentions every single year. Hundreds of people who were born here, who have birth certificates and Social Security numbers, thrown into detention because someone couldn’t be bothered to check.
More “wrongful detentions” than that, because legal immigrants shouldn’t be deported like that either.