Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) possibly detained as many as 800 U.S. citizens over the past several years, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog earlier this year. Among them has been Brian Bukle, who in a lawsuit made public this week said he was detained by federal immigration officials for more than a month despite repeated cries that he is in fact a U.S. citizen. Not only did ICE ignore Bukle’s pleas—“they want you out, they don’t want you here,” one agent told him—he was jailed at a private immigration detention prison that has already been at the center of litigation over unsafe conditions amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Officials “didn’t care about me or my life,” Bukle said in a statement.  Read more