ICE Took Their Papers--and Won't Give Them Back: Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving

[riversedge]

First they are told to carry their documents with them--and then if they happen
to get picked up for whatever--ICE keeps their docs. damn!!

Nazis are as Nazis do

— True Patriots Believe In & Protect Democracy (@donjorizzy.bsky.social) 2026-02-27T23:38:18.797Z

A familiar pattern developed during the federal government’s massive deportation operation in Minnesota: Despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained for days or weeks.

But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.

Again and again, according to 10 immigration lawyers interviewed for this story, immigrants in Minnesota have been released from detention centers without the work permits, Social Security cards, licenses, and other documents that prove their status.

“It’s more the rule than the exception that people generally are not given their stuff back,” says Graham Ojala-Barbour, a Minneapolis immigration attorney. “As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it.”.........................








February 24, 2026

ICE Took Their Papers—and Won’t Give Them Back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/ice-detention-keeping-not-returning-immigration-documents-work-permits/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[poli-junkie]

1. And they're robbing from people's houses and stealing the

jewelry off their bodies -- just like the 1930's Nazi's did.