Immigration officials detained a North -American citizen during a raid on a construction site, as video images showed numerous officers who rushed to handle the man while others shouted in his defense
A citizen from the United States was detained during an ice raid In a place of construction and claims that he was “addressed” and “handcuffed, hard”, while police accused his real identification of being a false.
Leonardo García Venegas, 25, was detained in Foley, Alabama, where he worked as ice agents attacked the place. A video of the incident issued by Telemundo showed the scene As the site authorities had sloping Venegas as several officers rushed to Put -the handles, and someone shouted in the background: “It’s a citizen!
Garcia remained in a vehicle until the officers released him. He says he removed his wallet and identification and showed them his actual identification.
“I was taken out of my wallet, I was identified,” he said in an interview. “And they told me it was false. He said he was invalid and that he was false. My identification. I was handcuffed and they handled me very well.”
“Very hard.”
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“Apparently a real identification is no longer valid. It has a real identification,” said his cousin Shelah Venegas.
García Venegas was born in Moldy to Mexican parents and is a citizen of the United States.
“We all assured that we have the actual identification and went through the protocols that the administration demands ….. has its real identification, and then they see it, and I suppose their English is not fluent and/or because it is brown, it is false, it is not real.”
The arrest left Venegas shaken, but above all he is afraid of his brother, who is in the country illegally and was arrested and detained.
Venegas says he wants to sue, but lawyers told them to pursue a federal agent would be almost impossible.
The National Security Department said in a statement that Garcia “interfered with a detention during a target workplace operation.” Garcia denies it.
“Physically he put himself between agents and the subject trying to arrest and refused to comply with numerous verbal orders,” said Tricia McLaughlin, Deputy Secretary of DHS. “Anyone who is actively obstructed by the application of the law in the performance of its jurors, including North -Americans, of course, will face consequences that include arrest.”
In March, the Federal Immigration Agents had violated the rights of 22 individuals, including a United States citizen, during the arrests of immigration application in the first weeks of the President. Donald TrumpThe second term, activists and lawyers in Chicago on Monday.
Arrests supposedly violate an agreement of 2022 between 2022 Chicago Groups and the Federal Government detailing how customs and immigration agents in the United States can make “collateral arrests”, where agents detain others in addition to the goals. The agreement, after a lawsuit on the 2018 immigration garbage, covers Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and Wisconsin, who are in the Chicago ICE office.