Estimates suggest 1 to 1.5 percent of people detained or deported might actually be American citizens. Do the math. With detention numbers over 60,000, that’s hundreds of wrongful detentions every single year. Hundreds of people who were born here, who have birth certificates and Social Security numbers, thrown into detention because someone couldn’t be bothered to check.
El Oski is among an estimated hundreds of thousands of Cubans who entered the United States through the southern border and were released under an immigration document known as an I-220A, rather than being formally paroled into the country.
... the federal government does not recognize an I-220A as a lawful entry for purposes of adjusting immigration status.