# ICE almost deported an American citizen to Jamaica **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 6, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696 "2018-12-06T18:23:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/1 "2018-12-06T18:23:09Z")
ICE tried to deport an American citizen. Apparently a case of mistaken identity, but still. This is the sort of thing that makes me really mad. > **[Born in Philadelphia, U.S. citizen says he was held for deportation to...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/04/born-philadelphia-us-citizen-says-he-was-held-deportation-jamaica-ices-request/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7d7a624a8009)** > > "I’m a US citizen. How is this even possible?” Peter Sean Brown asked the county sheriff's office, which is now the subject of an ACLU lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/2 "2018-12-06T18:38:33Z")
Spoiler alert! The guy was NOT WHITE! Sorry I ruined the suspense for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/3 "2018-12-06T18:45:32Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Spoiler alert! The guy was NOT WHITE! > > Sorry I ruined the suspense for everyone. Damn you! ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/4 "2018-12-06T18:49:27Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Spoiler alert! The guy was NOT WHITE! > > Sorry I ruined the suspense for everyone. ICE should just deport a few American citizens back to Iceland or Germany to prove they aren’t racist. Then once they get us off their backs they can go back to deporting black and brown people. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/5 "2018-12-06T19:06:02Z")
I’m willing to live outside the law in the US for a while if ICE will deport me to Switzerland. ICE can pretend their mandate isn’t based on racism, I get to live in Switzerland, everybody wins. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/6 "2018-12-06T20:23:30Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > ICE should just deport a few American citizens back to Iceland or Germany to prove they aren’t racist. Then once they get us off their backs they can go back to deporting black and brown people. Don’t give them any more brilliant ideas, please. They come up with enough bullshit on their own. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/7 "2018-12-06T21:30:38Z")
The ACLU is suing everyone involved, on his behalf. Good! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/8 "2018-12-06T21:43:02Z")
When \*The Price Is Right \*does this, they call it **The Showcase**. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/9 "2018-12-06T21:47:37Z")
(bolding mine) > [@](#): > > At Krome, Brown told ICE agents that he was a U.S. citizen, and they agreed to look at his birth certificate. His roommate emailed the document to an officer, the complaint reports, at which point the agency “hastily arranged for his release." > > “Before he left, they confiscated all the documents they had given him regarding his impending deportation,” the suit maintains. > > On April 27, he was freed in Miami, several hours from his home in the Keys. The daughter of Brown’s roommate came to retrieve him. Well of course they did; duh. They’re lazy and/or evil, not stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/10 "2018-12-06T21:49:52Z")
FWIW, the LA Times [found](https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html) that claims of improper detention of US citizens, and findings either by ICE or a court that a detainee was in fact an American citizen, have been dropping since 2013 and reached their lowest point in several years in 2017. At least it seems like the trend is moving in the right direction. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/11 "2018-12-06T21:53:52Z")
It’s like [Johnny Dangerously](https://cinemashame.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/moronie-from-sweden.jpg?w=520). How did they pick Jamaica (mon)? Out of any country they could have picked? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-almost-deported-an-american-citizen-to-jamaica/825696/12 "2018-12-06T23:35:49Z")
The senior officers involved have, of course, tendered their resignations, right?