{"id":27560,"date":"2025-05-02T12:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=27560"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:12:17","slug":"sen-ossoff-sounds-alarm-that-u-s-citizens-are-at-risk-of-wrongful-arrest-deportation","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-sounds-alarm-that-u-s-citizens-are-at-risk-of-wrongful-arrest-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Sounds Alarm That U.S. Citizens Are at Risk of Wrongful Arrest & Deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. <\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff wants transparency from the Trump Administration to ensure American citizens aren\u2019t wrongfully imprisoned or deported through immigration raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff is demanding answers from U.S. Department of Homeland (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on the Department\u2019s arrests of non-targeted individuals during immigration enforcement actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s Executive Order 14159 ostensibly focuses immigration enforcement on those ‘who threaten the safety or security of the American people.’ Yet the Administration\u2019s ‘collateral arrest’ policy appears to be so aggressive that entire families suspected of no crime and even U.S. citizens have been detained,\u201d Sen. Ossoff wrote to DHS Secretary Noem.<\/strong> \u201cThese indiscriminate tactics are all the more alarming given the Administration\u2019s denial of lawful due process to subjects of removal actions and its lawless overt defiance of related orders issued by federal judges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a report<\/a> by NBC News earlier this year, U.S. citizens have been targeted in Trump Administration raids as a result of these enforcement actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt appears to me that it is only a matter of time before a U.S. citizen caught up in a Trump Administration immigration raid winds up removed to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele\u2019s notorious CECOT,\u201d Sen. Ossoff continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect civil rights and civil liberties of American citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Sens. Ossoff and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) warned<\/a> U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the Trump Administration\u2019s move to end legal services for unaccompanied minors<\/a> is putting children at risk of trafficking and exploitation and urged the restoration of representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, Sen. Ossoff pressed<\/a> U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to reject an offer to imprison American citizens and legal residents in El Salvador\u2019s dangerous prison system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read Sen. Ossoff\u2019s inquiry with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff wants transparency from the Trump Administration to ensure American citizens aren\u2019t wrongfully imprisoned or deported through immigration raids. Sen. Ossoff is demanding answers from U.S. Department of Homeland (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on the Department\u2019s arrests of non-targeted individuals during immigration enforcement actions. \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s Executive Order 14159 ostensibly […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27560","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27562,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/27560\/revisions\/27562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}