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See other comments: this happens regularly, and these victims are frequently held for weeks at a time without access to attorneys or being charged. That is a consistent pattern of violating the US constitution - it is not possible to enforce immigration policy in the way some people want to without violating the constitution.

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I don't disagree, the comment I was responding to originally just said "one is too many". All I was saying is that one is certainly too many, but that doesn't mean you can use an anecdote to indicate that something happens regularly. Others have provided stats which actually do show that this happens regularly, which is great.

It's not possible to enforce immigration policy the way some other people want without violating human rights.

Ugh wow my grammar there was an absolute train wreck

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