The 23-year-old was pulled out of the van, placed in handcuffs, and detained for about 25 minutes while the agent searched him. When the agents finally found his ID confirming his citizenship, the agents let him go — without offering any explanation or apology.
A 23-year-old electrician from Brentwood is speaking out after a disturbing encounter with federal immigration agents left him handcuffed and shaken, despite being a U.S. citizen.
Elzon Lemus says he was on the job, driving in a work van with his co-worker in Westbury when they were pulled over by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The incident was recorded on Lemus’ phone.
“What’s up, guys? Can I see your ID, please?” an agent asks in the video.
When Lemus questions why they’re being stopped, the agent replies vaguely, “Cause you look like someone I’m looking for. Can I see your ID?”
Lemus continues, “Who are you looking for exactly? Because it’s definitely not me.”
The agent then warns him, “This is going to go one of two ways here. I need to see your ID — if you’re not the guy I’m looking for, you’re not the guy I’m looking for. But we need your ID.”
When Lemus continues to question why he’s being stopped the agent escalates and says “If we don’t get your ID we are going to need to figure out another way to ID you and that may not work out well for you.”
“You look like someone I’m looking for” seems to be a recurring quote from these guys.
Imagine having this in your car on a card and when ICE asks for your ID you pull this out.
Man, tfw I’m an immigrant, but I’m pale as the fucking moon so I can’t do this
“You fit the profile”
Next is Stop and Frisk nationwide followed by “Papers Please”
I’ve yet to see these guys looking for a middle aged white male or female.
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One? … all the headlines highlight mass arrests of any kind of brown non-white person everywhere … dozens, even hundreds of them. I’m sure there are white people being added to that list somewhere but they are few and far between, while the majority of the masses being attacked are brown minority groups and individuals.
Can’t say it’s something I’d root for but is black/brown face still bad if you use it to waste cops and ice’s time?
Lawsuit time and this one is legit.
Since when can ICE make traffic stops?
Anyone can do anything. There are only consequences after the fact and only if the state agrees there should be.
Since they are Trump’s secret police.
Since people started obeying them. If it’s not a cop, you don’t have to stop.
“Papers, please” - just like Soviet Russia and the other Soviet-bloc countries.
For the love of God, SUE!!!
Good luck. The government has pretty consistently ruled that the government is immune from liability in situations like this.
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Can they legally ask if you aren’t suspected of a crime? Surely, driving to work is not a crime.
They said he looked like a suspect. Cough cough.
That’s not a reasonable suspicion of a crime.
Maybe being the guy that maybe did a crime isn’t good enough.
More to the point, being undocumented isn’t generally a crime- it’s a civil offense. The majority of people are either asylum seekers or people who’ve overstayed visas, rather than entering illegally.
Entering illegally is a misdemeanor, but over staying is not.
It’s a common theory that many of thr 1/6 rioters are now ICE members. So here is a list of the pardoned fucks. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-january-6-prisoners-released-2018097
Welcome to the Diapered States of America, papers please.
Family lives near Brentwood and I can absolutely see ICE thugs doing this to them.
Time to exercise the 2nd Ammendment
Then he’d just be dead.
Meh, I you could survive. ICE is like the most coward desk jockey law enforcement who only shoots a gun every 5 years to stay qualified. Before Homeland Security and ICE was formed, immigration officials were unarmed like IRS agents and social workers.
He’d probably have to go to trial but people have been acquitted of shooting cops and I think he’d have a good chance.
working as designed
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Since the republicans passed laws allowing teachers to be armed in schools it would be such sweet karmatic justice if one them melts an ICE agent.
Guilty until proven innocent
“Papers, please”
Isn’t illegally detaining folks a violation of their civil rights/freedoms? Pretty sure that one that isn’t protected by qualified immunity… fucking scum
Take down individual names any time you have them. They are deciding to do those things individually, and they will answer individually to the citizens, when some bro stairs save america by being tripped upon by an ailing man, and it all starts crumbling and imploding.
