The Cato article says specifically that nearly half the people they were able to get in touch with didn’t seem to enter illegally OR otherwise violate their immigration status
Huh? Do you think the possible legal statuses of people in the US is either “here illegally” or “US citizen?”
My claim is quite clear: legal immigrants who have not committed any crime or administrative violations have 1) been deported, 2) without due process, and 3) to a foreign torture camp.
Any ONE of those elements is illegal with regard to legal immigrants, and items 2 and 3 are illegal even with regard solely to illegal immigrants.
Btw this is not including people whose TPS was canceled and were “made illegal” overnight, of which there are hundreds of thousands now.
In fact, some were granted asylum.