šØBREAKING: An ICE agent admitted, ON VIDEO, that he had no legal justification to keep questioning a U.S. citizen about his immigration statusā¦
But continued harassing him anyway, while illegally detaining him⦠in Eagle, Idaho.
In the video, mask ICE agents approach a construction site. One masked agent orders a man to put down the pole heās carrying, so he can question him⦠while another agent walks up to a man who is setting concrete.
The man setting concrete tells the agent he isnāt going to talk to him because heās working.
The agent ignores him and saysā¦
āWhere were you born? We are looking for someone.ā
The man tells him he doesnāt care who theyāre looking for⦠Heās working.
Instead of leaving him alone, the agent gets in his way, and demands his identification.
The man says he doesnāt have an ID on him⦠So, the agent demands his name.
The man tells him heās a legal U.S. citizen, and thatās all he needs to tell him.
The agent ignores that, and keeps harassing him withā¦
Where were you born?
Where are you from?
The United States?
The U.S. citizens keeps trying to tell the agent he needs to work before the concrete is sets, and tries to walk away.
But the agent keeps following and blocking the U.S. citizen until he finally tells the agent to get off of him, and demands the agentās name and badge number.
The agent responds⦠āIām asking YOU the questions.ā
Then, another agent says, āLetās go.ā
And the agent finally walks away, sayingā¦
āOkay, thatās fine. HEāS NOT OUR GUY ANYWAY.ā
THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU KEEP HARASSING HIM?!
ICE cannot just stop or detain someone because they want to know where they were born.
The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable seizures, and ICE agents need reasonable suspicion to detain someone for immigration questioning.
And if this was just a āvoluntary conversation,ā the man was free to walk away.
Instead, the agent followed him, blocked him from working, repeatedly demanded his identity and birthplace, and continued confronting him AFTER he tried to walk away.
And that should piss everyone off.
Because this wasnāt about finding the person they were looking forā¦
The agent admitted that he KNEW the man wasnāt their guy.
But that didnāt stop the armed federal agent from following and harassing a U.S. citizen.
And itās exactly how constitutional rights disappear⦠one āsmallā violation at a time⦠until weāre expected to accept the government treating our rights like theyāre optional.
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