A damning Senate report accuses Donald Trump’s federal immigration agents of acting like a “paramilitary force” by unlawfully detaining U.S. citizens, injuring them, and lashing out at people who record their actions.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says the government’s conduct runs far beyond what Justice Brett Kavanaugh envisioned in his Supreme Court concurrence this fall, which presumed that citizens stopped by immigration officers would be “promptly” released.
Instead, the committee’s investigation found that masked agents in unmarked vehicles often “lawlessly detain” citizens for hours or days, ignore proof of citizenship, and then justify encounters with claims of “assault” that collapse under basic scrutiny.
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