He's a U.S. citizen, but ICE detained him and tried to deport him. Now he's getting $150k

Source: Fresno Bee

He’s a U.S. citizen, but ICE detained him and tried to deport him. Now he’s getting $150k

Yesenia Amaro
Tue, December 13, 2022 at 5:42 PM

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pay Brian Bukle $150,000 under a settlement over the U.S. citizen’s unlawful arrest and detention in 2020.

The Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus and the ACLU Foundation of Northern California in late 2021 filed a lawsuit against ICE over Bukle’s wrongful arrest. Months before the lawsuit was filed, a government report had found the need for ICE to better train its officers to verify people’s citizenship.

Bukle is a resident of Corona in Riverside County.

Bukle, who was 62 at the time the lawsuit was filed, spent 36 days at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in Bakersfield in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak before the government acknowledged his U.S. citizenship. According to the lawsuit, an immigration judge later threw out his deportation case.

Bukle said he doesn’t want anyone else to experience what he went through.

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