No. of Recommendations: 6
Also, that propublica did not assert that there had been an actual judicial finding that any one of the alleged 170 unseemly detentions was actually illegal.
They don't have to. A detention of an American citizen for immigration purposes is unlawful, unless there was something else - like obstruction, etc. So out of the 170, 50 were stated to have a something else, and all but 5 of the 50 had the charges dropped, the 5b were misdemeanors. At a minimum 120 were unlawfully detained, but it actually was 165. And no one keeps track of this so it could be a Sicilian or a Brazilian that this happened to. You could come up with better stuff, much harder to refute, but if you'd rather lie and obfuscate, watch out, your own obfuscation confuses you.
