Foreign-Born US Citizens Now in Donald Dumb and ICE-GESTAPO's Crosshairs

It doesn't take much to understand the xenophobia and the racism that are now pervasive throughout US institutions under the convicted criminal felon and pedophile president. He's attacked migrants. He's attacked immigrants. He's attacked H-1B visa holders. He's attacked foreign students. He's targeting the constitution's birthright citizenship. He's been on a campaign targeting Americans of Palestinian, African, Hispanic and Latino backgrounds. And now his ICE-GESTAPO white supremacist gang is making lists of foreign-born citizens and green-card holders. What more can this thug do before people understand that the US is on downward spiral of hatred and Nazi-like governance?
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Probation officers compile lists of ‘foreign-born’ Americans to hand over to ICE
Landon Mion
Thu, August 20, 2026

Canyon County, Idaho, probation officers have compiled lists of foreign-born people for ICE agents without independently verifying their immigration status. They're not even bothered to independently verify whether those identified on the list were US citizens, legal residents (green card holders) or illegal aliens.

In May, a probation officer emailed ICE about a man she would meet the next day for his regular check-in.

"His meeting has not changed and he is expected to be here tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m.," Norma Naranjo, a senior probation officer for Canyon County's misdemeanor probation department, wrote in a May 13 email to six ICE agents.

The next day, the man arrived for his appointment a few minutes early, and Naranjo contacted the ICE agents again to ask if they would be coming soon.

"He is here. Are you guys on your way?" she wrote.

It was unclear from the heavily redacted emails if ICE agents took the man into custody at his probation appointment.

The list compiled for ICE has been made without confirming that the people in question are in the country illegally. One probation officer said in an email that the names he submitted included everyone in his files who had reported being born outside the United States. Foreign birth alone does not indicate unlawful immigration status; foreign-born people can include naturalized U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, commonly known as green-card holders.

Immigration attorneys and advocates fear that foreign-born lists could lead to people in the country legally being detained, particularly as ICE agents during the Trump administration detained or caught up U.S. citizens and people with lawful or pending immigration status in immigration enforcement actions. Some lawfully present noncitizens, including green card holders, can also be subject to removal based for any puny reason under federal law.

One immigration attorney said the county's efforts to compile a list of foreign-born people is "an invasion of privacy." "It's one thing to know that someone is "undocumented", it's another thing to just start targeting every single person who was born in another country," the attorney said.

ICE has requested a list of people that could be in the country illegally, typically on an annual basis and across administrations. 

Steve Cushman, director of constituent services for Canyon County, said he did not know exactly when the lists were first requested and provided, but added that it is his understanding that it goes back as far as the Obama administration.

Even though records show ICE requested lists of people believed to be in the country illegally, rather than all foreign-borns, other messages, however, show at least some officers using foreign birthplace as a way to identify people for targeting.

When pressed on whether ICE is concerned that U.S. citizens or others with legal status could be included in the list, officers refer to a previous statement that verifying a person's status "is within the purview of federal authorities", adding, "ICE may still target someone if they think the conviction is a deportable or removal offense even if they have legal status. 

The sheriff's office in Canyon, Idaho, is facing a lawsuit from the ACLU of over allegations that the county and other law-enforcement agencies involved in an October 2025 ICE raid racially profiled Latino attendees and unlawfully detained people at a horse-racing venue.