Immigration agents grab and mistreat citizens
What Happened A congressional examination out currently has revealed that contrary to the Trump administration s contends immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U S citizens The summary by Senate Democrats which was prompted by ProPublica s reporting included interviews with nearly two dozen Americans Citizens advised congressional investigators that immigration officers had dragged them from cars detained them for days fabricated indicates of assault routinely used excessive force and denied health care The review also uncovered that agents treated children with reckless disregard for their safety and wellbeing One citizen recalled that federal agents pointed guns at her youngest children ages and and dragged her -year-old daughter out of a pickup and zip-tied her The citizen Anabel Romero reported investigators that an agent threatened to fucking blow your head off during the chaotic raid at a rural Idaho racetrack Romero also revealed agents wouldn t let people get diapers or food for their kids Romero and her children were born in Idaho Five other citizens are giving their accounts publicly Tuesday on Capitol Hill Related Donald Trump is the sleepy president of an exhausted country What They Disclosed The citizens accounts paint a dire picture the senator behind the summary narrated ProPublica in an interview What the greater part struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story stated Sen Richard Blumenthal D-Conn This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America It should make everyday Americans outraged that their fellow citizens could be treated this way Background ProPublica announced in October that agents have detained more than Americans this year More than citizens disclosed they were held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their loved ones We also determined that nearly American children were detained Four were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to a lawyer Why it Matters The governing body does not track the number of Americans wrongly detained by immigration agents The Trump administration in turn has denied that it happens No American citizens have been arrested or detained Department of Homeland Assurance Secretary Kristi Noem noted last month The citizens firsthand accounts in the congressional statement show that is not true The issue is all the more critical since the Supreme Court issued a temporary order this fall allowing immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to stop civilians without clear cause Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that citizens had no reason to worry If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U S citizen Kavanaugh wrote they promptly let the individual go The congressional inquiry unveiled that one citizen was indeed held for four days Response In response to ProPublica s request for comment about the summary DHS again denied targeting Americans We don t arrest US citizens for immigration enforcement wrote an agency spokesperson Read more about this topic White House rejects reports Noem is on chopping block at DHS Somali Americans confront Trump s attacks by trolling MAGA A desperate Trump puts his racism on full display The post Immigration agents grab and mistreat citizens appeared first on Salon com
