{"id":20880,"date":"2025-06-28T04:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20880\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T04:23:08","slug":"video-shows-san-diego-hotel-workers-immigration-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20880\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows San Diego hotel worker’s immigration arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman working at a Mission Valley hotel was arrested by federal agents Thursday morning in an incident that was caught on video and mirrored some of the tactics being used nationwide in the Trump administration\u2019s push to detain undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that the woman was arrested by Homeland Security Investigations and Customs and Border Protection agents for \u201cbeing present in the U.S. after entry without inspection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman was later released with a Notice to Appear in court with an ankle monitor due to childcare issues, the federal agency said.<\/p>\n

In the video showing part of the incident, two plainclothes agents \u2014 one wearing a yellow vest similar to those used by construction workers \u2014 handcuff the woman, who is sitting on the floor of the Handlery Hotel San Diego parking lot. The woman can be heard screaming and crying as she is being restrained.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody deserves to be treated like that,\u201d said Brigette Browning, who leads the hotel workers\u2019 union in San Diego. \u201cShe was not a criminal. She was going to work every day so she could take care of her son. She\u2019s a single mom. This is not making any of us safer, and it\u2019s terrorizing our workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browning said the incident occurred while a group of housekeepers, including the woman who was arrested, were walking through the parking lot on their way to work.<\/p>\n

The video, taken by another hotel worker, was shared Friday on social media<\/a> by the California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonz\u00e1lez, as well as Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre and U.S. Rep. Scott Peters, D-San Diego.<\/p>\n

The leaders condemned the agency\u2019s tactics. Peters said that he will \u201ccontinue to demand accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Samara Talavera, the hotel worker who captured the incident on video, said it was painful to watch. \u201cShe (came) to work just like everyone else, out of necessity. Hotel work is very hard \u2026 and what they did is not right,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Talavera said she was still processing what happened. The image of her being held on the ground has continued to haunt her, she said.\u00a0\u201cYou feel helpless because she was asking for help,\u201d she said, \u201cbut we couldn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Management at the Handlery did not return a message seeking comment on Friday.<\/p>\n

Concern has mounted in recent weeks over the tactics federal agencies are using to make such arrests in public spaces, including agents wearing civilian clothing that doesn\u2019t clearly identify them as law enforcement, disguising their faces behind masks and using unmarked vehicles.<\/p>\n

The San Diego Police Department issued a statement on social media reiterating it was \u201cnot involved in this incident in any way.\u201d The department stated that the arrest was conducted by members of the federal maritime task force operating under the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

Browning said that the union is trying to help the woman find legal representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman working at a Mission Valley hotel was arrested by federal agents Thursday morning in an incident…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,64,1582,276,409,1370,728,19402,50,3549,3550,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-20880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-mission-valley","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-county","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-top-stories-sdut","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114759087152780966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}