#Immigration agents told a teenage #USCitizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Video from #KennyLaynezAmbrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the #Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

July 25, 2025

"On the morning of 2 May, teenager Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two male friends when they were pulled over by the #FloridaHighwayPatrol.

"In one swift moment, a traffic stop turned into a violent arrest.

"A highway patrol officer asked everyone in the van to identify themselves, then called for backup. Officers with US #BorderPatrol arrived on the scene.

"Video footage of the incident captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men*, two of whom are undocumented. They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: 'You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.' Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use 'funny' and quipping: 'You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.' "

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Neup6

#ACAB #Florida #USPol #ResistICE #ICEKidnapping #ICEDetention #CBP #TrumpSucks #ForProfitPrisons #ForProfitArrests!!! #Corruption #Fascism #FascistDictator #authoritarianism

TOMORROW! At Riverbank Park in #WestbrookME!

"On Saturday, July 26, Americans in every corner of the country will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, and actions to say: Our families come first—not #billionaires, not #authoritarians, and not #CorruptPoliticians.

"#Mainers are coming together as families and community members to amplify our collective experiences and demand that our leaders step up to meet the needs of families across the state. Join us on Saturday, July 26 at 10 a.m. in Riverbank Park in Westbrook!

RSVP here: https://www.mobilize.us/familiesfirst/event/812386/

"Do you have a story about how cuts to essential programs like #Medicaid, #FoodStamps, #SchoolLunches will impact your family and loved ones? Join us to share your story and to say NOT ONE MORE child without lunch, NOT ONE MORE #elder without #medicine, NOT ONE MORE #immigrant abducted, and NOT ONE MORE family left to suffer so #billionaires can get richer."

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#Georgia #Police Arrest #Farmworkers — Then Get Warrants From #DHS

Georgia authorities said their goal was to serve warrants for crimes against children. Instead, they swept people up and got immigration detainers after the fact.

Schuyler Mitchell
July 9 2025

Excerpt: "Georgia State Patrol and DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

" 'The people we’ve spoken with so far were randomly pulled over or profiled and just arrested on the spot, either for not having a driver’s license or for no charge at all,' said Meredyth Yoon, an attorney with Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta who has been investigating the May 12 operation. 'That’s not a targeted operation based on people having outstanding warrants.' "

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/09/georgia-sheriff-dhs-ice-farmworker-deportation/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/a3FES

#ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their Flight Landed in Africa.

An Intercept investigation shows that immigration officials deceived the men now expelled to #SouthSudan.

Nick Turse
July 8 2025

"When eight men in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement boarded a plane in May, officials told them that they were being sent on a short trip from Texas to another ICE facility in Louisiana.

"Many hours later, the plane landed in Djibouti. The men were held in shipping containers for weeks, shackles on their legs. This past weekend, they were expelled to the violence-plagued nation of South Sudan.

"This deception, revealed by an Intercept investigation, highlights the lengths to which the U.S. government will go to further its anti-immigrant agenda and deport people to so-called third countries to which they have no connections.

"Lawyers for three of the men said that their clients were told, after resisting deportation to Africa, that they were instead being transferred to a detention facility in Louisiana. ICE then hustled them onto a plane, in the wee hours of the morning, and flew them out of the country without their knowledge or consent. This account was further corroborated by the wife of one of those same men who was told about ICE’s tactics in real time.

" 'This underscores just how abysmal and reprehensible the government’s treatment of these men has been from the very beginning, and the fact that the government made no genuine attempt to comply with the district court injunction in place prior to shipping them out of the United States,' said Glenda Aldana Madrid, a staff attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project who is representing one of the men, Tuan Thanh Phan.

"Aldana Madrid added, 'Tuan and the other men had the right to know where they were going, and yet the government did not have the basic decency to do even that before putting them on a plane bound for a country none of them knew, and that is on the brink of civil war.'

"The Intercept sent numerous requests to ICE for comment. Spokesperson Miguel Alvarez acknowledged receipt of the questions but did not reply."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/08/ice-deportation-louisiana-south-sudan/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/8o2fy

The Big Ugly Bill is likely to pass, as House Republicans have fallen in line. Nothing good in the bill, all bad. One of the bad things is the huge increase in funding for ICE. Kidnapping and imprisonment of political opponents (ie, outspoken Democrats) is in our future.
#ICEkidnapping

WTF! After decades in the US, #Iranians arrested in #Trump’s deportation drive

By KIM CHANDLER, CLAIRE RUSH and ELLIOT SPAGAT
Updated 11:59 PM EDT, June 28, 2025

"Mandonna 'Donna' Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years, married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter. She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away, her family said.

"Kashanian arrived in 1978 on a student visa and applied for asylum, fearing retaliation for her father’s support of the U.S.-backed shah. She lost her bid, but she was allowed to remain with her husband and child if she checked in regularly with immigration officials, her husband and daughter said. She complied, once checking in from South Carolina during #HurricaneKatrina. She is now being held at an immigration #DetentionCenter in #BasileLouisiana, while her family tries to get information.

"Other Iranians are also getting arrested by immigration authorities after decades in the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security won’t say how many people they’ve arrested, but U.S. military strikes on Iran have fueled fears that there is more to come.

" 'Some level of vigilance, of course, makes sense, but what it seems like ICE has done is basically give out an order to round up as many Iranians as you can, whether or not they’re linked to any threat and then arrest them and deport them, which is very concerning,' said Ryan Costello, policy director of the National Iranian American Council, an advocacy group.

"#HomelandSecurity did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment on Kashanian’s case but have been touting arrests of Iranians. The department announced the arrests of at least 11 Iranians on immigration violations during the weekend of the U.S. missile strikes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said, without elaborating, that it arrested seven Iranians at a Los Angeles-area address that 'has been repeatedly used to harbor illegal entrants linked to #terrorism.' "

https://apnews.com/article/iran-immigration-arrests-us-trump-deportations-9a4136657bda3a277125738807848368