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This is actually a recurring theme in the history of U.S. immigration. Every time the U.S. decided it was time to do a big deportation, a bunch of U.S. citizens get deported.
The most egregious example was in the Depression, when over 1 million U.S. citizens were deported to Mexico:

history.com/news/great-dep…
In the 1950s, over a million people, some of them U.S. citizens, were deported to Mexico in "Operation Wetback":

history.com/news/operation…
In 2006-2008, one researcher concluded that around 1% of all immigration detainees were U.S. citizens:

truthdig.com/articles/thous…
By some estimates, about 20,000 U.S. citizens were detained or deported between 2003 and 2010:
news.vice.com/en_us/article/…
Expect more U.S. citizens to be "mistakenly" deported in the days to come.

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