Commentary: Homeland Security says it doesn't detain citizens. These brave Californians prove it has

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Homeland Security denies detaining U.S. citizens, but congressional testimony and reports reveal dozens have been arrested in immigration sweeps, including Californians.

Two California citizens testified that masked ICE agents detained them. ‘They ignored me as I repeated it again and again that I am a U.S. citizen,’ one said.

Call it an accident, call it the plan. But don’t stoop to the reprehensible gaslighting of calling it a lie: It is fact that federal agents have detained and arrested dozens, if not hundreds, of United States citizens as part of immigration sweeps, regardless of what Kristi Noem would like us to believe.

During a congressional hearing Thursday, Noem, our sec