Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff wants transparency from the Trump Administration to ensure American citizens aren’t 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’s arrests of non-targeted individuals during immigration enforcement actions.
“President Trump’s Executive Order 14159 ostensibly focuses immigration enforcement on those ‘who threaten the safety or security of the American people.’ Yet the Administration’s ‘collateral arrest’ policy appears to be so aggressive that entire families suspected of no crime and even U.S. citizens have been detained,” Sen. Ossoff wrote to DHS Secretary Noem. “These indiscriminate tactics are all the more alarming given the Administration’s denial of lawful due process to subjects of removal actions and its lawless overt defiance of related orders issued by federal judges.”
According to a report by NBC News earlier this year, U.S. citizens have been targeted in Trump Administration raids as a result of these enforcement actions.
“It 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’s notorious CECOT,” Sen. Ossoff continued.
Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect civil rights and civil liberties of American citizens.
Last month, Sens. Ossoff and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) warned U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the Trump Administration’s move to end legal services for unaccompanied minors is putting children at risk of trafficking and exploitation and urged the restoration of representation.
In February, Sen. Ossoff pressed 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’s dangerous prison system.
Click here to read Sen. Ossoff’s inquiry with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
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