Green Card Holders Victim of Abuse and Mistreatment by ICE and CBP Agents
5 Green Card Holders Victim of Abuse and Mistreatment by ICE and CBP Agents
- Jair CelisYouth soccer coach
Green Card Holder
Salt Lake City, UT
Dec 2, 2025Youth soccer coach Jair Celis was arrested at an immigration facility and detained for 2 weeks on a minor infraction rarely enforced and despite having a U.S. citizen wife, child and meeting for his last Green Card interview. - Omar Huerta CisnerosSchizophrenic 54-year-old
Green Card Holder
Southwest Chicago
Oct 31, 2025Schizophrenic 54-year-old Omar Huerta Cisneros, a Green Card holder since 1988, was detained by ICE and then dropped off somewhere else at random despite him obviously needing help upon which it took his family two weeks to find him because of his condition - Juan RivasDay laborer
Green Card Holder
Home Depot parking lot outside Los Angeles, CA
Sep 23, 2025Legal Green Card holder Juan Rivas had his immigration papers in his pockets ready to show immigration agents of which he said, "I was ready to show them when they started hitting me and threw me on the floor," in an egregious case of racial profiling at a Home Depot parking lot. - Donna Hughes-Brown
Green Card Holder
O'Hare Internation Airport, Chicago and Kentucky ICE Facility
Jul 29, 2025Irish grandmother Donna Hughes-Brown, married to a U.S. citizen and Green Card Holder living in the U.S. for 37 years with 4 children and 5 grandchildren, was detained at O'Hare International Airport by immigration agents for a misdemeanor from more than a decade ago on the guise of writing bad checks only totaling around a mere $60. She was transferred to a facility in Kentucky away from her home in Missouri. A judge refused her bond hearing, and she remained in custody in legal limbo for more than four months facing possible deportation. - Mahmoud KhalilPalestinian Activist
Green Card Holder
New York City & Louisiana Ice Facility
Jul 11, 202530-year-old Green Card holder Mahmoud Khalil was detained by ICE for 100 days at a facility 1000 miles away from his family in New York City without charges for online posts critical of Republican policies during which he also missed the birth of his son.