Here is something all Americans can agree on, whatever their feelings on immigration enforcement: United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not be harassing, let alone detaining, citizens of the United States.

Nor should that agency be harassing, let alone detaining, green card holders, officially known as lawful permanent residents (LPRs).

Yet that is what happened early Tuesday in Elgin, the Tribune reported.

Joe Botello, 37, a U.S. citizen, told this newspaper he was “jolted awake” and then handcuffed, questioned and placed in a Customs and Border Protection vehicle before dawn on Tuesday. Just to make it crystal clear, Botello was born here, this paper and other outlets reported.

Worse, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, or her surrogate, then sh

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