Regular Saturday march in Tbilisi. 388th day of protest.

Regular Saturday march in Tbilisi. 388th day of protest. Against a russian backed government and pro EU.

She was already dressed in a jumpsuit for deportation.

Leticia is 24 years old. She grew up in Arizona’s Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community. She is Native American. She had her tribal ID with her.

None of that stopped ICE from labeling her an “immigrant.”

Only later did jail staff admit they had made a “mistake,” claiming they confused her with another inmate who had the same last name. After that admission, she was finally released and sent home with her mother.

That explanation should alarm everyone.

This wasn’t a harmless clerical error. It’s the predictable outcome of an enforcement system that increasingly relies on names instead of verified identity.

ICE is not just operating inside jails. Agents are also stopping, questioning, and detaining people during street encounters, often without judicial warrants and with little immediate oversight. In these situations, enforcement frequently depends on name-based database matches, not confirmed identity.

At the same time, federal agencies are sharing large amounts of passenger name data, further expanding the number of ways someone can be flagged, misidentified, or detained.

When enforcement works this way, confusing one person for another isn’t a small mistake, it’s a due process failure. People can be treated as deportable first and sorted out later, if they’re lucky.

And as more of these cases come to light, DHS continues to deny they’re happening at all.

They are lying.