Held in Detention for Three Whole Weeks

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When ICE came around, it didn’t seem to matter that Francisco Galicia was a U. S. citizen.  This could have been easily proven, but officials detained him instead.

“Detained” is a nice way of saying that Galicia was held captive for three whole weeks.  While in Border Patrol custody, he was kept “in a small room with about 60 other people, only one toilet and no doors or wall.”  Meals were inadequate, and Galicia “lost a lot of weight” while there.

He was fortunately able to retain the services of an attorney, Claudia Galan.  She presented Customs and Border Protection with Galicia’s

citizenship papers, and he was finally released.

Sadly, this is not an isolated incident.  In 2018, investigative journalists from the LA Times “found that ICE had released more than 1,400 people from custody since 2012 after investigating citizenship claims.”

Resources

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/us/us-citizen-detained-texas/index.html

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