Subject: Re: Operation Charlotte's Web
Also, that propublica did not assert that there had been an actual judicial finding that any one of the alleged 170 unseemly detentions was actually illegal.

They don't have to. A detention of an American citizen for immigration purposes is unlawful, unless there was something else - like obstruction, etc. So out of the 170, 50 were stated to have a something else, and all but 5 of the 50 had the charges dropped, the 5b were misdemeanors. At a minimum 120 were unlawfully detained, but it actually was 165. And no one keeps track of this so it could be a Sicilian or a Brazilian that this happened to. You could come up with better stuff, much harder to refute, but if you'd rather lie and obfuscate, watch out, your own obfuscation confuses you.