He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration's ambitious enforcement targets
WATCH: Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: You've got no rights.' He secretly recorded his brutal arrest.
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration's ambitious enforcement targets.[image or embed]
" Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) Jul 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
@#1 ... "You've got no rights here. You're a migo, brother."
Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use "funny" and quipping:
"You can smell that ... $30,000 bonus." ...
Related ...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem struggles to define habeas corpus at Senate hearing (May 2025)
www.nbcnews.com
... "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Noem said. "That's incorrect," a Democratic senator responded. ...
@#8 ...I am glad the violent illegals were arrested but they should have been immediately deported ...
I am also glad when illegal immigrants who have committed a violent crime are arrested for cause.
Just like I am glad when any person who commits a violent crime is arrested.
But they should be arrested for cause.
Then there is this ...
Trump Admin Tells Court Racial Profiling by ICE Is OK
drudge.com
So, ICE seems to admit that they are going after skin color, and not criminal backgrounds.
@#14 ... just the liberals that benefit from the illegals wage suppressing actions ...
ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?
www.nytimes.com
... They gathered in a conference room for the weekly management meeting, even though there was hardly anyone left to manage. Chad Hartmann, the president of Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, pushed a few empty chairs to the side of the room and then passed around a sheet totaling the latest production numbers. "Take a deep breath and brace yourselves," he said.
For more than a decade, Glenn Valley's production reports had told a story of steady ascendance " new hires, new manufacturing lines, new sales records for one of the fastest-growing meatpacking companies in the Midwest. But, in a matter of weeks, production had plummeted by almost 70 percent. Most of the work force was gone. Half of the maintenance crew was in the process of being deported, the director of human resources had stopped coming to work, and more than 50 employees were being held at a detention facility in rural Nebraska.
Hartmann, 52, folded the printed sheet into tiny squares and waited out the silence.
"So, this gives you a pretty good sense of the work we have ahead of us," he said.
"It's a wipeout," said Gary Rohwer, the owner. ...
Rohwer, 84, had always used a federal online system called E-Verify to check whether his employees were eligible to work, and Glenn Valley Foods itself had not been accused of any violations. Rohwer was a registered Republican in a conservative state, but he'd voted for a Democrat for the first time in the 2024 election, in part because of Trump's treatment of immigrants.
Rohwer couldn't square the government's accusations of "criminal dishonesty" with the employees he'd known for decades as "salt-of-the-earth, incredible people who helped build this company," he said. Most of them had no criminal history, aside from a handful of traffic violations. Many were working mothers, and now they were calling the office from detention and asking for legal advice.
Their children, U.S. citizens, were struggling at home and in some cases subsisting on donations of the company's frozen steak. ...
"ICE has been very clear. They are going after criminals"
For example, ICE is currently detaining a guy with a drug misdemeanor from the 90s.
"According to the family's attorney, Zavvar was charged with a misdemeanor for marijuana possession in the late 1990s."
www.newsweek.com
This is what Republicans support when they say "ICE has been very clear. They are going after criminals."
@#28 ... 8 U.S.C. 1325 ..
I do note your current alias seems to avoid answering my direct question.
Is such entry a misdemeanor or a more serious violent crime?
The law your current alias cites seems to specify "for the first time" as I noted in my comment.
... (a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts
8 U.S. Code 1325 - Improper entry by alien
www.law.cornell.edu
Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both. ...[emphasis mine]
A Veteran Was Detained by Marines. It Highlights Concerns over the Military's Growing Ties to Law Enforcement. (June 2025)
www.military.com
... As thousands of National Guardsmen and hundreds of Marines descended on Los Angeles this month on White House orders amid immigration raid protests, Marcos Leao was just trying to run some errands.
The 27-year-old Army veteran, wearing sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt, thought he had spare time to grab some paperwork from the Department of Veterans Affairs. While listening to music on his headphones, he took a shortcut around the Wilshire Federal Building by brushing past some police tape.
Shortly after crossing through the federal building complex, he saw a service member yelling at him to get back on the other side of the tape, and he quickly complied.
After presenting his identification card at the front walkway to the VA building, he continued on his way. Then, as the song "Someday" by Flipsyde floated in his ears, he saw a Marine shouting at him to get on the ground.
Soon, his wrists were being zip-tied, and he was held by the Marines for what he estimated was nearly two hours before being handed off to LA police.
"I was like, 'This is ridiculous,'" Leao recounted to Military.com on Wednesday. "Now, there's a miscommunication, a big miscommunication." ...
So, how is Pres Trump doing on immigration in the polls?
President Trump Job Approval - Immigration
www.realclearpolling.com
...
RCP Average 6/23 - 7/22
Approve: 45.3
Disapprove: 52.1
Spread: -6.8
...
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