U.S. citizens are getting caught up in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewel. It's Monday, December 8th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem held a news conference in October.

She was asked whether U.S. citizens were being detained in an immigration enforcement

operation in the Chicago area.

Here's what she said.

There's no American citizens have been arrested or detained. 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 in false reporting. Latino U.S. citizens and lawful residents have told the

Post a very different story. The post identified several cases of

U.S. citizens being targeted by immigration enforcement agents that are documented in video and

witness accounts. In Chicago and elsewhere, they described being detained for hours and in some

cases days. Lawyers and community leaders say there are many more

cases involving people too frightened to come forward. In September, the Supreme Court cleared a path

for immigration officers to use skin color as a factor in determining who to stop and ask about their legal status.

President Trump has escalated his anti-immigrant rhetoric in recent weeks.

And as his crackdown unfolds, many leading Democrats who pushed back on Trump's immigration policies during his first term are staying quiet.

President Trump hosted the Kennedy Center honors last night. That's number two.

It has been a dramatic year at the storied arts institution in Washington, D.C.

Since Trump took it over in February, a leadership purge

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