A Colombian national is facing up to 20 years in prison after allegedly breaking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer’s nose during an attempted arrest in Roselle, New Jersey back in February during an enforcement operation.
The 27-year-old man, identified as Hector Villegas-Alvarez, was approached by ICE agents who had determined he was unlawfully present in the United States and subject to deportation.
According to an official statement by the New Jersey Attorney’s Office, Villegas-Alvarez exited his vehicle when ordered to do so but physically resisted arrest, locking his arms and tensing his body when officers attempted to apply handcuffs.
What I am reading is “Undocumented Immigrant manages to escape a lack of due process by simply throwing fists.”
They are going to be thrown in a prison and forgotten about regardless. What’s the threat of a few years of jail for fighting back when they won’t see the light of day if they submit anyway.
May as well go down swinging.
He gets to stay in the US, at least 🤷
And as terrible as for-profit American prisons are, it’s better than CECOT.
escape?
He’s now in the court system for assaulting an officer, instead of being spirited away to ICE detention and deported without ever seeing a judge.
I mean his ICE issues don’t go away. He could spend 20 years in jail and THEN get deported.
Under (maybe) a different President. With a chance he’d end up safely back in his own country, not a Salvadoran death camp. I’d roll the dice.
given how many protected, legal residents, and outright citizens ICE has already picked up without care or concern… I would argue ICE determinations are woefully and legally inadequate for any action, and thus violent resistance to abduction is not only the natural, moral reaction… its the legal one.
This is the message everyone is understanding, especially if you’re poor and desperate.
If immigration officials approach you … you’re basically fighting for your life, so do everything to break free, run, and get away. Because if you don’t, your life is over anyway.
Good for him, fuck these people. Not so good for him. Is the jail time. But what’s the difference at this point?
At least they’ll probably get some due process now.
ACAB
Damn if that’s the punishment for hurting their poor little nosies might as well kill them.
At this point it should be open season.
Is this a life hack to avoid CECOT and rot a US jail instead?
Supremacists hate this one trick
Piggies have a weak spot on their noses. Got it.
They are scared and think that harsh sentences will prevent them from getting their deserved punishments.
Is it an arrest if there’s no due process though? Honest question. What are they arresting him for that would ever see trial? What crime was he even claimed of committing for an arrest?
Because if there’s no trial, then there’s no due process. Andnif there’s no due process, then it’s not an arrest, it’s a kidnapping.
In which case he should be punching those fucks in the face.
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