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A Houston man says he was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for nearly two hours — even after he told them he was a U.S. citizen and showed valid identification.
"Bro, I was born in College Station. There is no way — what is going on?" said Miguel Angel Ponce Jr., 33.
Ponce says the incident happened early Wednesday morning, just as he was heading to work. He told KHOU 11 that ICE agents approached him and asked for identification.

"He says, 'I need to see your ID.' I gave him the ID. When I went back down, he said, 'Get out of the car,'" Ponce said.
"For what?" Ponce said he asked. "'Get out.'"
He says officers then handcuffed him and took him away.
"I pretty much felt kidnapped. [They] told me I have a deportation order, put me in handcuffs, took me to another location. I couldn't call my wife — locked up in the back seat."
Despite showing his ID and insisting he was born in the U.S., Ponce says the officers continued to insist he was someone with immigration violations.

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"They dropped me off here... gave me the keys and said, 'Shave your beard off so we won't mistake you again.' And everyone went their own way."
Now, he's questioning how something like this could happen — and what it means for others.

"This is not right."
"It's not possible that Harris County can pull my ID and know who I am in five to 10 minutes. These federal agents take an hour and a half, two hours, trying to figure out who I am. Doesn't make sense."
 
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Police in Maine say officer arrested by ICE was cleared by federal government to work

ICE accused the police department in Old Orchard Beach of “knowingly” hiring an immigrant who is in the country illegally, which the police chief denied.
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ICE said that Evans is a Jamaican citizen who lawfully entered the U.S. on a visa on Sept. 24, 2023, and that he was supposed to depart on Oct. 1, 2023, but never boarded his flight, overstaying his visa. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney.

The Old Orchard Beach Police Department said in a statement on Monday that as part of its standard hiring process, Evans completed an I-9 federal immigration and work authorization form to verify that he was legally able to work in the U.S.

Police Chief Elise Chard said in the statement that the town reviewed multiple forms of identification and submitted the forms for Evans to the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify Program. The system is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to let employers know if a prospective employee has legal authorization to work in the U.S.


“The Department of Homeland Security then verified that Evans was authorized to work in the U.S.,” Chard said. “The form was submitted and approved by DHS on May 12, 2025.”

“Evans would not have been permitted to begin work as a reserve officer until and unless Homeland Security verified his status,” she said.
 
"We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland," President Trump said earlier this month, referring to the new detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz. "The only way out is really deportation."

According to a class action lawsuit, that turned out to be literally true. Hundreds of people are being held at the facility without charges, without access to attorneys, and without the ability to contest their detention in court.

The plaintiffs in the case filed an emergency motion last Friday to protect their clients' rights. Under the Fifth Amendment, "No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, immigration detention is a federal matter and, therefore, the exclusive jurisdiction of federal courts. But in affidavits submitted with Friday's filing, attorneys representing the detainees state they are being locked out of the legal system.

When attorneys representing clients being held at the Everglades detention center attempt to contest their confinement in federal court, they are told that the federal court lacks jurisdiction because the facility is being run by the state government. Attorney Z. Zareefa Khan submitted this account of his efforts to seek the release of his clients, G.T.C. and R.T.F., on bond:

On July 24, 2025, I appeared virtually on behalf of G.T.C. at the [federal] Krome Immigration Court. When I logged into the hearing, [Immigration Judge] Lerner said, “what is going on?” and told me that no hearing for G.T.C. was included on the docket. I then had an off-the-record conversation with IJ Lerner and the government’s counsel. The government counsel stated that my clients had been detained at Alligator Alcatraz since July 3, and that the immigration court had no jurisdiction over their cases… because G.T.C. was in state, not federal custody. IJ Lerner then went back on the record, and stated that the immigration court did not have jurisdiction over their cases. G.T.C. was not brought to the hearing in person or virtually.
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Khan added that when he later checked a federal online portal to review the status of his clients' cases, it stated that "their bond motions had been withdrawn on July 21, 2025, although I had not withdrawn either of their motions."
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At a hearing on these issues this week, a federal judge demanded more clarity on "who is running the show" at the Everglades detention camp. He described the current situation as "a bit of a black hole" regarding "the interplay between the federal and state authorities and… jurisdictional concerns."

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