Trump officials stonewall Congress on queries on detained US citizens and green-card holders in migrant crackdown

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 15 April 2025 00:45 BST


A U.S. citizen who voted for Donald Trump was detained by armed immigration agents during a stop in Virginia in March. A toddler, his mother, and his grandmother, all U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico, were detained while speaking Spanish while shopping in Milwaukee. U.S. citizen members of the Navajo Nation were stopped and questioned in Arizona and New Mexico. These are just some of the immigration-related incidents that have raised alarm among members of Congress and prompted them to reach out to the Trump administration for more information.

But more than a dozen representatives, all of them Democrats, told ProPublica they haven’t received any response, even as long as months after seeking information, prompting fears as the administration has pursued a breakneck pace of deportations. “That is a big concern on a level beyond what ICE is doing,” Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico told the outlet.

The fear has been heightened in the wake of the mistaken deportation of Maryland father Kilmar Abrega Garcia to a notorious El Salvador prison and the deportation of others who were simply snatched from their homes or off the streets and put on a plane to the same foreign prison without any court process.

Not only are Trump officials apparently defying court orders, “this administration does not seem to recognize the power and authority and responsibility” of members of Congress, added Leger Fernández. A White House spokesperson insisted that the administration is “working with Congress,” and pointed to passage of the continuing resolution that kept the government open and of of the Laken Riley Act that allows Homeland Security to detain illegal immigrants who have committed a crime.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-immigration-congress-ice-citizens-b2733265.html

[ShazamIam]

1. Trump has announced he is going to go after, "the home grown," people. They already are. It is terrifying and

shameful. I know this has been done before in the U .S., to the Japanese and during Eisenhower to Mexican immigrants. But now Trump wants to target Citizens who oppose him politically, that is new.

[bluestarone]

2. Yea, some scary shit coming!

[Falcon101]

3. Where is Schumer?

If the administration is simply ignoring the Democratic members of Congress, then Schumer should be raising hell.