ICE arrested and tried to deport actual US citizen just because.

[DetlefK]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/ice-illegally-detained-a-colorado-man-for-days-because-of-his-hispanic-appearance-lawsuit-claims/

According to two separate lawsuits filed in January by Bernardo Medina, the 22-year old went to court in Gunnison County, CO on Jan. 27, 2015 for a DUI sentencing hearing when he was “aggressively confronted” by ICE agents, who asked the Colorado resident to identify himself. After Medina produced his Colorado ID, the agents allegedly searched him—without a warrant—and took him to Alamosa, CO for questioning.

While in Alamosa, ICE agents questions Medina about his citizenship, allegedly telling him, “You don’t look like you were born in Montrose.” According to the lawsuit, the agent’s comments were “a clear allusion to [Medina’s] Hispanic appearance.” He was later transported to another immigration center in Colorado Springs, CO, where agents continued to question his citizenship.

“Not only was he insisting to every person who would listen that he was a U.S. citizen, his family was also on the outside trying to talk with any ICE official that would talk with them to show his birth certificate,” Andy Richmond, Medina’s lawyer, told Denver 7.

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A spokesperson for ICE said Medina, who was born in Montrose, CO and moved to Mexico before his first birthday, told “local officers” in Colorado that he was a Mexican citizen in the U.S. illegally. But Richmond, Medina’s lawyer, insists ICE’s “version of events” is inaccurate.

“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for an American citizen to tell immigration officials he was in the country illegally,” Richmond said.

[shraby]

1. Looks like ICE needs a clean out.

[0rganism]

13. after the GOP + Trump are done with this country

we won't need any "immigration" regulation then (who the fuck will want to live in this shithole?) so just zero out their budget, we can start it up when it becomes necessary again

[KittyWampus]

14. I think prospective AND active ICE officers need to have their social media checked

and anyone with a history of any sort of racist affiliation should not hired or fired.

[Blue_true]

16. I agree. The Agency has successfully been infiltrated by far right immigration vigilantes.

People need to be inserted at the top to clean up the Agency, starting with checking the group affiliations of every single member of ICE.

[Ilsa]

17. Absolutely this! We will need to purge

law enforcement of people like this. Maybe the best way will be to hire lots of minorities. The racists might leave on their own.

[spanone]

2. this country is falling apart. all that we held sacred is vanishing right in front of our eyes.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Definitely restructuring.

Stay encouraged spanone. I know these are very frustrating and scary times. Hold on.

[Dem2]

3. ICE have been acting like Nazi storm troopers for a while it seems

I bet they gather/steal a lot of evidence illegally - these criminals should be jailed for this.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Montrose,mostly White people or

Native Ute's. One dominate Religion. White Stupidity run amuck once again.

[HopeAgain]

5. Poorly trained and bigoted force with guns...

All the makings of a new era of Brownshirts...

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Hispanic/Latino is just over 17% of the Montrose population

Same as the US in general. So much for not looking like he was born in Montrose.

[ProudLib72]

7. Dumb, dumb, dumb

I went to HS in Grand Junction. I'd estimate 1/3 or more of my classmates were Hispanic. It's CO you idiots! We have a Spanish name for out state for crying out loud!

[PoliticAverse]

8. It's estimated that hundereds (if not thousands) of US citizens are deported every year...

in error. See:
http://jacquelinestevens.org/StevensVSP18.32011.pdf

[Jonny Appleseed]

10. Really makes you wonder what those 20% of Latinos that voted for Trump are thinking right about now

"Yeah, but it won't happen to me, I'm a citizen."

Unless you walk around with a mp4 of your mother giving birth to you on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, you're shit out of luck.

[Beartracks]

11. Gosh golly! People that look Hispanic can't possibly be from a town in Colorado!!!1!

Really, ICE? Really?



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[Iggo]

12. Cops. That's who they are. That's what they do. (n/t)

[KittyWampus]

15. Can't he sue for wrongful detention?

[yuiyoshida]

18. I guess I don't look like I belong in America either

But I am part Native Hawaiian...and since Hawaii is a state, I am a American Pacific Islander.
(With lots of Japanese splashed in.)