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14/ We sifted through social media, DHS statements, court records and local reports to find cases where citizens were held against their will for any amount of time. The courts consider someone detained if they aren’t free to leave. Full methodology: propub.li/4yoIKb7

How We Counted Incidents
We found and vetted cases from a number of sources, including English- and Spanish-language social media, DHS statements, court records and local news reports, in addition to our own reporting. We included an incident in our dataset only if we could find at least two sources for it. For additional details about the incident, like whether crowd control weapons were used, we accepted one source in some cases.

When DHS provided a response specific to an incident — including about whether it happened or the circumstances under which it happened — we noted that response in cases for which we offered detail beyond a simple count of detained citizens. DHS responses that generically denied ever detaining citizens or that are proven inaccurate by our reporting were not included.

As with our count a year ago, most of the detained Americans on our list fell into two broad categories. The first is Americans who were held because agents questioned their citizenship. This time, we found more than a hundred such cases. The second category is Americans arrested by immigration agents after being accused of assaulting or impeding officers at protests or during immigration arrests of others. In that category, we tallied roughly 300 Americans. In many of these cases, the government accused but never charged these individuals with assault. Sometimes agents detained people because of questions about their citizenship but later accused them of crimes. While public attention often focuses on ICE, the immigration dragnet often relied on officers from agencies across the government.

Since the government itself does not track these cases, our list is almost certainly an undercount...

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12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2

Screenshot of database titled "Explore All Incidents Where Citizens Were Detained." Text below explains that this is every incident ProPublica could find in which one or more citizens were reportedly detained between January 2025 and September 2026. There are 506 citizens' cases in the database, and users can sort by what the incidents involve, where the incident is located, and the recency of the case.

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11/ DHS also told us that racial profiling allegations were “disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE” and “ICE does not zip tie or restrain children.”

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10/ We shared our findings and information on each case with the Department of Homeland Security. The department defended agents’ conduct. “DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted. We do our due diligence,” the agency said in a statement.

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9/ DHS said Trebach jumped in front of moving vehicles and hit a car with her signs and fists, which she disputes. No related federal charges were brought against Trebach, as far as ProPublica could find.

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8/ Amanda Trebach, a nurse and member of an immigrant advocacy group, was detained in California while filming and protesting immigration enforcement operations. Trebach says she was held for almost 36 hours without access to a phone call or a lawyer.

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7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.

36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.

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6/ Others were arrested while trying to protect colleagues. Quentin Williams, a staffer at Minneapolis' Roosevelt High, was trying to help a teacher when he was shoved by Greg Bovino and tackled by agents. He was charged with assault, but like others, his case was dismissed.

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5/ Hundreds of Americans were also held while they were engaging in their First Amendment rights. 60+ were held while they were filming.

60+ U.S. citizens detained while recording

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4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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3/ 100+ Americans have been held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. They say they were profiled — detained because of their skin color, accents or jobs. “ICE isn’t looking for criminals. They’re looking for Latinos,” one said.

100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship

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2/ Federal agents have detained at least 70 children and teens who are American citizens. Some were handcuffed or zip-tied. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.

At least 70 U.S. citizen children detained, some of whom were handcuffed

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Looks like a villain who takes himself out with autoerotic asphyxiation before James Bond even gets a chance to meet him

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Polarization Is Not the Problem." The paragraph below says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social It's starting to get attaction. So read the rest, and let me know what you think. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/10/2026

The biggest question that we must confront in Reconstruction 3.0 is, "how can we get a small-d democracy to function with one of the most functionally illiterate populations in the developed world?"

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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Democrats gotta stop thinking that impeachment is about *winning* a conviction. It is about stop the behavior: funny thing is Ukraine still gets the money!

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.

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Yes, everyone saying Vought is right. I had forgotten that he held an impeachable office at all. (I'm not sure Miller does, though.)

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Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

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such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/10/2026

Candidate describes angrily throwing his child across the room onto a bed, terrifying him. Says that's when he realized he was "not normal or well." But that's "out of context"!

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In 2014, Marx said there wouldn't be as much domestic violence if women would be happy with "where God has them." It appeared he was suggesting that women were too eager to be in relationships with abusers. Democratic nominee Phil Weiser condemned Marx's comments this week.

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Marx says "words and events can be taken out of context and presented in a way that creates a completely different impression." Here is an extended version of Marx speaking in 2022 about the time that he threw his toddler son across a room. Marx said the child was terrified.

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Marx says the video is out of context. Here's a longer version of the 2021 clip where Marx laughs about slamming his wife Eileen into a door so hard that she cried. Marx says he was teaching her a lesson that she needed self-defense training. Marx says she learned her lesson.

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