U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released: The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-immigration-raid-real-id-handcuffed-alabama-rcna208794

35 comments

  1. 🤦

    Snippet:

    >A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid [had a REAL ID on him](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/real-id-deadline-requirements-explained-rcna204898) that was dismissed as fake, the man’s cousin said Friday.

    >Video of the arrest, [aired by Noticias Telemundo](https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo-en-la-noche/inmigracion/video/empleado-de-la-construccion-estadounidense-narra-como-ice-lo-arresto-en-su-sitio-de-tmvo12932038), showed authorities grabbing Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, while at a job site in Foley, Alabama, on Wednesday and bending his arms behind him. Someone off-camera can be heard yelling, “He’s a citizen.”

    >[Garcia told Noticias Telemundo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gH1VRi19G4) that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him. [REAL ID is the identification U.S. citizens](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/real-id-deadline-requirements-explained-rcna204898) are required by law to have in order to travel through airports and enter federal buildings. It is considered a higher security form of identification.

    >”Apparently a REAL ID is not valid anymore. He has a REAL ID,” his cousin Shelah Venegas said. “We all made sure we have the REAL ID and went through the protocols the administration is asking for. … He has his REAL ID and then they see him and I guess because his English isn’t fluent and/or because he’s brown it’s fake, it’s not real.”

    >Garcia had told Noticias Telemundo that “they grabbed me real bad” and the handcuffs were placed “very hard” on him.

    >Garcia said he was released from the vehicle where he was held after he gave the arresting officials his Social Security number, which showed he is a U.S. citizen.

  2. ICE has become a rogue unconstitutional agency that needs to be held accountable for their illegal activity.

  3. Until there are repercussions for this Nazi shit it’s going to keep getting worse. 

    Also, I’m waiting for all the We the People, 1776, super patriots to come to their fellow Americans aid. 

    (That’s a joke, I know they’re super racist white nationalists.)

  4. Guilty until proven innocent (if you get the chance).

    Fuck ICE and I hope they’re disbanded and imprisoned by the next sane administration if we ever get there.

  5. Weird. I’m sure it was an honest mistake. Wonder how often this happen to white folk with Red Hats?

  8. There we go, an example of due process removed. They no longer need to wait for info from hq. All they need to do is say its fake or your a criminal and they can arrest anyone.

  9. You know who can’t tell a fake ID from a real one? Fake cops.

  10. They’re delighting in brutalizing my neighbors. I’m not okay with it.

  11. They’re Proud Boys, a domestic terrorist group.

  13. These ICE ass holes will be on trial at The Hague before this ends. Saying they were just following orders won’t cut it.

  14. You can’t just do raids on groups of brown people and demand they prove their citizenship! This shit is *un-fucking-real*! This is literal nazi shit!

  15. Trumpers will say it’s fine because he was eventually let go.

  16. Fun fact, anyone can now be sent to Africa or el Salvador because their ID “looks fake.”

    Thats what no rights means

  17. It’s all racism. 100% Not safe to be brown in this country.

  19. ICE is just a terror squad at this point. They serve no useful purpose outside of intimidation.

  20. And stories like this is just one of the reasons the rest of the world is electing to spend our tourist dollars somewhere else. Who wants to visit a country and risk this?

  21. How many of these stories before people wake up to realize that “legal” and “illegal” mean nothing to ICE? All that matters is if you are white or not.

  22. The REAL ID literally has a barcode that they can use to verify it. This was pure racism.

  23. And THIS is why people have been yelling from the rooftops that REAL ID isn’t proof of citizenship. Only the enhanced licenses prove citizenship. Remember that when it comes time to vote (if the SAVE Act passes).

    Also, a good representation of why due process is so necessary. ICE is out of control.

  24. because it was never about status.

    It was about race.

  25. Of course they said it was fake. Fucking bastards. I’m sure some of these ICE assholes have only been a “federal agent” for like 50 days or something. Have you seen their hiring criteria ? Their “uniform” is comprised of the generic ICE vest and whatever clothes that happen to be clean that day.

  26. When are Americans going to start naming and shaming their ICE relatives and neighbours?

    Let them wallow in their Gestapo pride

  27. Yet people don’t think we need due process….because they are only going for illegal immigrants. 🙄

  28. Sounds like ICE hasn’t been trained on what Real IDs are

  31. “This would never happen to a US citizen”, said every Republican voter ever.

  32. People in my inner circle of friends said I was being extreme when I said Germany style reeducation of MAGA was needed after Jan 6.

    I still feel like Im right

  33. Whichever candidate runs on abolishing ICE and throwing the entire agency into prison has my vote.

  34. Shocker, all those people saying “keep your papers on you because it’ll be proof” as if that matters were wrong, just like a lot of us said. Who would’ve guessed that the administration who’s been ignoring the law would ignore the law?

  35. Im not saying this lightly. But if and when we make it pass the trump administration and restore rule of law. We are genuinely gonna need nuremburg trials. And a reconstruction like era.

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