ICE jails U.S. citizen, Army veteran, for seven months
"In April 2006, Castillo received Army documentation of his service which referred to the second alien number (similar to a Social Security number for immigrants). Still, he was not released until June, after the Board of Immigration Appeals remanded the case back to the immigration judge, who reversed the deportation order.
"ICE never knowingly detains a U.S. citizen," says Dankers.
But apparently, as Castillo's case shows, ICE makes mistakes. Jorge Barón claims that since the Seattle University/One America report was written early this year, his organization has discovered five additional cases of individuals who spent time at the detention center before it was found they were citizens."
NINA SHAPIRO in the Seattle Weekly.