ICE's data infrastructure makes misidentification permanent. Officers are supposed to document citizenship investigations, but they aren't required to update a person's status in ICE databases, even after confirming U.S. citizenship.
In the most harrowing case, Davino Watson, a New York-born citizen, was detained for three years in an Alabama immigration jail. He had no lawyer and was forced to prove his citizenship status to the government alone. When he finally got out, an appeals court ruled he wasn't owed a dime " the statute of limitations had expired.
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