Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a 26-year-old U.S. citizen construction worker, was detained by ICE agents three separate times and is now suing to stop immigration raids that target Latino workers on private construction sites. The repeated detentions despite his proof of citizenship highlight how ICE enforcement sweeps have ensnared citizens, and Venegas's case is being pursued with support from the Institute for Justice. The broader pattern — White House border czar Tom Homan acknowledged ICE does detain citizens during sweeps but says they are not deported — reveals a systemic gap between detention practice and citizenship verification in immigration enforcement.