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On Instagram, there were numerous angry posts last Friday reporting that in McMinnville, in Yamhill County, Oregon, ICE detained a 17-year-old high-school student who is a U.S. citizen during the lunch period. Of course, there is much more to the story, but liberals were up in arms, asking how this could be America and comparing it to Hitler.
The posts all implied he was arrested at school. The school district confirmed that the arrest occurred off campus and that no ICE agents entered school property.
Later reports claimed that ICE had smashed his car window. If ICE smashed the car window, one can assume he refused to open the window or comply with ICE agents. Media reported that in a video shared by his brother, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, and the officer replies, “Get out of the car,” and “I don’t care.”
This confirms that he did not comply and also that he did not show ID. When the officer said “I don’t care,” it should be obvious that he meant he does not care if a suspect claims to be innocent; he has to comply and show ID. Of course, liberals took this to mean the officer did not care that the young man was a citizen, a fact that had not been established at that point.
He was transported to the ICE facility in South Portland and was released shortly before 7 p.m. on Friday. His family was contacted by federal authorities around 5 p.m. and told he could be released “only if two family members who are U.S. citizens arrive in person to pick him up.”
To sum up, he was briefly detained until his identity could be verified, then he was released to his family. None of this seems like a tragedy. But it is interesting that none of the angry posts explained why he was pulled over in the first place.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin provided a statement saying that U.S. Border Patrol agents in Yamhill County were followed and obstructed by two cars on Friday. The statement affirmed that the two drivers, Isaias Eduardo Soto Elias, 20, and a 17-year-old, were U.S. citizens. McLaughlin said the two were arrested for impeding federal law enforcement officers KATU. Authorities are trying to charge Christian with “interference or obstruction of investigation,” his brother said.
This is just one of countless examples of this type of misleading and often completely false depiction of ICE arrests. There are countless videos of liberal activists confronting ICE agents during an arrest, demanding to see a warrant and asking why the person is being arrested. The posts always conclude by saying that ICE arrested an innocent person for no reason, never presented a warrant, and that the person has now been “kidnapped” and has disappeared, and no one knows where he or she is.
What is usually unknown to the public is the specific paperwork or the details of the suspected violation. When reporters write that “ICE did not explain the reason for the arrest,” it reflects privacy restrictions, not nefarious conduct by ICE. ICE is prohibited by law from disclosing immigration status, prior orders, or case details to bystanders, activists, or reporters. Only the detainee, the detainee’s parents or guardians, and an attorney are entitled to that information.
ICE is also not required to tell passersby where a detainee is being taken. Placement depends on bed availability, classification, medical needs, and transportation logistics. It may take a day or more before a family receives formal notification, which advocacy groups often describe as “kidnapped,” “disappearing,” or “going missing,” even though the individual is in standard ICE processing.
Claims that “nobody knows why he was arrested” or “nobody knows where he is” are common in media coverage, but in every completed case, the basis for the arrest has been an immigration violation. The angry liberal making the video may not know what the charges are, but the arrested person does.
There are frequent claims of ICE arresting citizens, but citizens are never arrested by ICE for immigration violations. It is possible that a citizen can be briefly detained during a raid and will be released upon proving identity and citizenship. A small number of citizens have been arrested, but these are generally people who attacked ICE agents or interfered with ICE operations. Vehicular attacks on ICE agents are increasing in frequency, as are incidents of trying to block or box in the agents’ cars, and these actions can lead to arrests of U.S. citizens.
Liberals, Democrats, and mainstream media are framing ICE arrests as fascism, Nazism, Hitler, or authoritarianism. However, there is no country on earth that does not require residency permits, and all countries deport foreigners living in the country illegally.
Hitler arrested innocent people and sent them to death camps. ICE is arresting guilty people and sending them to their home country. There is a huge difference, but the constant messaging vilifying ICE is causing a spike in violence against ICE agents and obstruction of ICE operations. While it may wind up hurting Republicans in the midterms, which is exactly what the Democrats want and why they are pushing these narratives
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