Kristi Noem openly denies indisputable fact: 'No US citizen has been arrested or detained'

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied the indisputable fact that U.S. Citizens had been "arrested or detained" as part of President Donald Trump's deportation operations.

During a Thursday press conference in Indiana, Noem insisted that ICE agents carrying out deportations would "continue to operate and will continue to do this work until there is no longer anybody out on our roads and in our communities that's here illegally."

When pressed about the detention of U.S. Citizens, the secretary flatly made a false statement.

"There's no American citizens have been arrested or detained," she said. "We focus on those that are here illegally. And anything that you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."

Earlier this month, ProPublica found more than 170 cases of U.S. citizens being detained during raids and protests this year.

"About two dozen Americans have said they were held for more than a day without being able to phone lawyers or loved ones," the outlet noted. "While the tally is almost certainly incomplete, we found more than 170 such incidents during the first nine months of President Donald Trump's second administration."

Many more reports have documented the arrest of Americans, with many describing their experiences.

DHS does not track how many U.S. citizens are held by immigration agents.