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ICE admitted to inadvertently deporting a U.S. citizen to Guatemala and is working to return him. The agency said the error happened in its vetting process.
ICE deported a U.S. citizen to Guatemala by mistake, and the agency is now working to return him. ICE attributed the error to a breakdown in its vetting process—the system designed to verify someone's citizenship status before putting them on a deportation flight.
This is a concrete illustration of how ICE's processing systems can fail at the most basic level. A U.S. citizen was removed from the country. That shouldn't happen. The fact that it did suggests the vetting process isn't catching obvious cases. The agency's explanation—that it was a procedural error—sidesteps the question of how someone with citizenship documentation made it onto a deportation flight in the first place.
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