Why Did ICE Agents Arrest and Detain a 71-Year-Old U.S. Citizen?
Earlier this week – in a story that can be read as a perfect encapsulation of abuse by the application of Trump immigration – ice agents masked brutally and owned a 71 -year -old American citizen as a legal observer to monitor them in a federal courthouse in San Diego.
Grandmother Barbara Stone said She documented the detention of asylum seekers with the group’s “resistance to detention” at the San Diego Immigration Court when she was not founded to have pushed an officer. Several masked agents then continued Stone, caught and handcuffed it (leaving bruises), confiscated his phone and handbag, and held her for more than eight hours, she said.
Once Stone released, Ice returned his bag but kept possession of his phone. For what? Stone says that an ice agent compared the situation to “a drug bust where he keeps the phone of a drug trafficker because I used it in crime”.
But the only “crime” which Stone says is guilty is to document the application of immigration. If this is true, the episode would follow with other apparent attempts by ICE agents to avoid responsibility recently, for example, by carrying masks so that they can perform raids and stop anonymously.
In a declaration at a local point of sale, Ice accused Stone of having attacked an officer, citing “an increase of 700% of attacks” against his agents in the past year (a statistic that the agency uses to also justify the agents hiding their identity).
This increase of 700%, it should be noted, is a somewhat misleading way to say there was 79 presumed assaults against ICE agents this year, against 10 within the same period last year. Meanwhile, ice interactions have become considerably more frequent and aggressive.
ICE figures unfortunately deserve a more in -depth examination, because the agency has defined “assault” quite freely. In another large -scale arrest of an American citizen, for example, ice last month detained New York Brad Lander controller for assault – a bit like a school court intimidator accuses his victim of embarrassing his fist, as Washington Post Philip Bump columnist put.
We could add, to this list of questionable ice allegations, his new claims on Stone.
