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Under U.S. law, noncitizens may be detained and deported, but they can’t be punished and imprisoned without a trial.

Before imprisoning people, including noncitizens, the government is required under the Constitution to charge the defendants with a crime and to prove their guilt in a jury trial, he said.

Currently, cycling offenders can be imprisoned for no more than two years under an 1861 law originally intended for drivers of horse-drawn carriages.

"We are actually imprisoned ourselves now in a small area and will be forever looking over our shoulders," said Ms King.

Other individuals were wrongly listed as dead but then found to have been among thousands of Gazans imprisoned by Israel.