Democrats clash with ICE over characterization of marijuana farm raid

essentialsaltes · Sunday at 11:55 AM

BPPLEE said:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Newsweek that Border Patrol was making a targeted arrest when Figueroa's vehicle blocked agents and struck an unmarked government vehicle.

Great, yet another example! Keep 'em coming!

A 15-year-old United States citizen was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on Chicago’s East Side on Tuesday afternoon and held for five hours in a federal facility garage, according to the family's attorney.

Attorneys from the firm Romanucci & Blandin said he was held for approximately five hours without being formally charged, allowed to contact his family, or granted access to legal counsel.

The teenager was restrained with zip ties and handcuffs and transported to a federal law enforcement facility not affiliated with CBP or ICE, according to the law firm. They also said his mother was not informed of his whereabouts during the detention.

Family attorneys secured the boy's release yesterday evening. No charges have been filed against the boy, the firm said.

BPPLEE · Sunday at 1:09 PM

essentialsaltes said:
Great, yet another example! Keep 'em coming!

A 15-year-old United States citizen was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on Chicago’s East Side on Tuesday afternoon and held for five hours in a federal facility garage, according to the family's attorney.

Attorneys from the firm Romanucci & Blandin said he was held for approximately five hours without being formally charged, allowed to contact his family, or granted access to legal counsel.

The teenager was restrained with zip ties and handcuffs and transported to a federal law enforcement facility not affiliated with CBP or ICE, according to the law firm. They also said his mother was not informed of his whereabouts during the detention.

Family attorneys secured the boy's release yesterday evening. No charges have been filed against the boy, the firm said.

“Here are the facts: immediately following illegal aliens ramming law enforcement with their vehicle, which resulted in the arrest of two illegal aliens from Venezuela, a violent mob began [to] surround law enforcement," the DHS spokesperson told Newsweek.

"Among them, a U.S. citizen teenager threw eggs and hit a CBP Officer in the head. Agents observed him gathering rocks after objects had already been thrown at law enforcement officers. The individual was arrested for the assault and taken to the FBI Field Office in Chicago where he freely admitted without questioning to throwing eggs at agents. His attorney met with him at the field office, and he was released without charges."

DaisyDay · Sunday at 5:05 PM

BPPLEE said:
If Rete's story is true he should have a good civil case, what he alleges happened is a violation of his rights

Such suits are stacking up.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-05T09:16:00-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Ignoring evidence, Kristi Noem says no citizens have been detained by immigration agents
Noem’s comments might’ve appeared encouraging to those who don’t know better, but there’s ample evidence to suggest she was lying.

Armed agents drive off with 2-year-old child after detaining her father, a U.S. citizen accused of assault

Federal immigration agents detained a man in Cypress Park on Tuesday whose toddler was strapped into the back seat of his vehicle, according to video shared with The Times. After two agents climbed into his car — along with their weapons — they drove off with the child as onlookers protested.

The 32-year-old man who was detained during the enforcement operation at a Home Depot was a U.S. citizen, according to an immigration lawyer who spoke with his family.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told The Times on Tuesday night that the man allegedly “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car.”

Lindsay Toczylowski, co-founder of Immigrant Defenders Law Center, confirmed that the man in the video was the father of the child. She said the firm had reached out to the family thinking that the father would be in immigration custody but then learned that he and his toddler were both U.S. citizens.

[Grandma on seeing the video] “When they got into the car, taking my granddaughter, I said, ‘Why are they taking her, are they really ICE, are they kidnapping her or what?’” Avalos said. “It was really horrible.”

Toczylowski said the family received a call from federal immigration authorities and were told to pick up the child at the federal building in downtown Los Angeles.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-05T11:11:11-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Armed agents drive off with 2-year-old child after detaining her father, a U.S. citizen accused of assault
Federal immigration agents detained a man in Cypress Park on Tuesday whose toddler was strapped into the back seat of his vehicle, according to video shared with The Times. After two agents climbed into his car — along with their weapons — they drove off with the child as onlookers protested.

The 32-year-old man who was detained during the enforcement operation at a Home Depot was a U.S. citizen, according to an immigration lawyer who spoke with his family.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told The Times on Tuesday night that the man allegedly “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car.”

Lindsay Toczylowski, co-founder of Immigrant Defenders Law Center, confirmed that the man in the video was the father of the child. She said the firm had reached out to the family thinking that the father would be in immigration custody but then learned that he and his toddler were both U.S. citizens.

[Grandma on seeing the video] “When they got into the car, taking my granddaughter, I said, ‘Why are they taking her, are they really ICE, are they kidnapping her or what?’” Avalos said. “It was really horrible.”

Toczylowski said the family received a call from federal immigration authorities and were told to pick up the child at the federal building in downtown Los Angeles.

the man allegedly “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car.”

What would you have them do?

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-05T11:37:05-0600

BPPLEE said:
the man allegedly “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car.”

What would you have them do?

Not drive a US citizen toddler to an ICE facility.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-05T12:19:58-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Not drive a US citizen toddler to an ICE facility.

What's the alternative? Don't you think if you have a toddler with you, you shouldn't throw rocks at LEOs?
At some point the people provoking these incidents should share some of the blame

Belk · 2025-11-05T12:35:27-0600

BPPLEE said:
What's the alternative? Don't you think if you have a toddler with you, you shouldn't throw rocks at LEOs?

Call another parent or guardian?
Call local law enforcement?
Call CPS?

Just off the top of my head as a civilian.

As to the claim he threw rocks, I do not find anything put out by this admin credible. They have proved themselves untrustworthy and adroit at making statements which are easily disproved. If he is convicted in a court of law based on evidence I will believe it happened.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-05T12:35:51-0600

BPPLEE said:
What's the alternative?

Law enforcement deals with these situations all the time. Ask dad whom to call. If there's no family member on hand, CPS -- people trained to deal with children -- get called in.

You don't hop in some stranger's car and take the kid down to the downtown station, 25 miles away.

Hans Blaster · 2025-11-05T12:41:52-0600

Belk said:
As to the claim he threw rocks, I do not find anything put out by this admin credible. They have proved themselves untrustworthy and adroit at making statements which are easily disproved. If he is convicted in a court of law based on evidence I will believe it happened.

I'd be willing to believe it happened if there is actual video of him throwing actual rocks. Conviction is a much higher bar.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-05T12:46:35-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Law enforcement deals with these situations all the time. Ask dad whom to call. If there's no family member on hand, CPS -- people trained to deal with children -- get called in.

You don't hop in some stranger's car and take the kid down to the downtown station, 25 miles away.

So handle it on the side of the road where there's probably an angry crowd gathering. Leave the child in a hostile environment while you make phone calls and wait

Hans Blaster · 2025-11-05T12:56:31-0600

BPPLEE said:
So handle it on the side of the road where there's probably an angry crowd gathering. Leave the child in a hostile environment while you make phone calls and wait

The side of the road? It was at a Home Depot parking lot near Dodger Stadium, not a traffic stop.

Larniavc · 2025-11-05T12:58:19-0600

Always in His Presence said:
??? what ???

They outed themselves as dope smokers. What a self own. You couldn’t make it up.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-05T13:01:42-0600

Hans Blaster said:
The side of the road? It was at a Home Depot parking lot near Dodger Stadium, not a traffic stop.

Have you seen the way crowds gather when ICE is present?

Larniavc · 2025-11-05T13:03:05-0600

Valletta said:
Equal treatment under the law MUST be re-established or we lose our country.

I think that is already a lost battle. Rich folks will always be served by the law rather than sanctioned by it.

Larniavc · 2025-11-05T13:05:43-0600

essentialsaltes said:
not charges for child labor.

I thought that was legal in Southern States?

Hans Blaster · 2025-11-05T13:06:42-0600

BPPLEE said:
Have you seen the way crowds gather when ICE is present?

I have.

Which is why I need to see some video to know why he got out of his car. It frankly doesn't make any sense that someone rolling up to the Home Depot to get some stuff with their child in the car would spontaneously participate in an anti-ICE crowd, particularly if there were others there.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-05T13:10:26-0600

Hans Blaster said:
I have.

Which is why I need to see some video to know why he got out of his car. It frankly doesn't make any sense that someone rolling up to the Home Depot to get some stuff with their child in the car would spontaneously participate in an anti-ICE crowd, particularly if there were others there.

I think you're giving people way too much credit, I have arrested someone for armed robbery with a two month old baby in the car

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-05T13:19:04-0600

Oh, there was another detained US citizen there, too.

Tuesday’s raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot included an adjacent resource center for day laborers. Maegan Ortiz, executive director of Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, said their centers across L.A. County had been raided 14 times before, but this was the first time that agents had entered a center.

She said agents took the chain off the gate of the day laborer center, went inside and threw the site coordinator, a U.S. citizen, on the ground and detained him. She said the coordinator’s wrist was fractured. He was later released an treated at a hospital for the injury, she said.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-05T13:26:32-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Oh, there was another detained US citizen there, too.

Tuesday’s raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot included an adjacent resource center for day laborers. Maegan Ortiz, executive director of Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, said their centers across L.A. County had been raided 14 times before, but this was the first time that agents had entered a center.

She said agents took the chain off the gate of the day laborer center, went inside and threw the site coordinator, a U.S. citizen, on the ground and detained him. She said the coordinator’s wrist was fractured. He was later released a treated at a hospital for the injury, she said.

We can take her word for it though, no need for video of that.

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