huffington post , they said a spokesman for i.c.e. is facing several lawsuits and said the agency could not comment on the report due to pending litigation. i should throw that out there. has anyone to your knowledge actually been deported by this process? so i don t know of anyone myself who has been deported but there are certainly dozens and dozens of cases of citizens who were detained and who absent intervention from the aclu or organizations would have been deported. there are systematic structural problems in the way that this detainer process works, and that s why local jurisdiction cities, counties, states all over the country should stop participating in this way. it s important to noit thte the detainers are requests that cities and counties to choose to grant or refuse and the fact so many of them choose to grant them is a serious problem that has financial liabilities for the taxpayers of the