Trump supporter/US citizen stopped and handcuffed by ICE for "looking hispanic"

[Dennis Donovan]

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ICE stopped car & handcuffed a U.S. citizen driving to work in Virginia for "looking Hispanic."

Jensy Machado voted for Trump—but this experience shook his faith.

"I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to... just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals."

"That’s what they’re doing, now," he explained. "They’re just following Hispanic people."

"They didn’t ask me for any ID. I was telling the officer, if I can give him ID, but he said just keep my hands up, not moving. After that, he told me to get out of the car and put the handcuffs on me."

"I told him I was an American citizen, and he looked at his other partner like, you know, smiling, like saying, can you believe this guy? Because he asked the other guy, 'Do you believe him?'"

Jensy Machado was released after the officers finally allowed him to show his driver’s license.

The two men with him were taken into custody. He does not know why.
#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited
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12:48 PM · Mar 7, 2025

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[NoRethugFriends]

1. that's a shame

[Eugene]

2. ICE has quotas to fill. If your skin is dark, make sure to have proof of citizenship ready.

Get detained because someone heard you speaking Spanish? Yes, that is happening too.

[BoRaGard]

3. So sorry this guy got SUCKERED by the G.O.P.

But then again, that's what they do.

Guy needs to stop sleeping as the repubes and russians want,
and go woke as America demands.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Reality has a painful way of educating Trump fans

And sometimes their experiences prove enlightening.

[Ocelot II]

5. Here, kitty, kitty.

Driving While Hispanic. He didn't expect, well, you know... 🐆

[Sky Jewels]

6. Gee, if only someone had predicted these kind of incidents would happen.

Enjoy your Maga Paradise, Jensy.

[tanyev]

7. Hard to hit Donny's quotas if they slow down to look for actual criminals & actual undocumenteds.

😒

[Scrivener7]

8. Good.

[NNadir]

9. I'm very worried about my beautiful niece in Texas.

Her father immigrated from Ecuador, back in the days before the US became a pariah country, but was considered a beacon for the world.

How fast we fell!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. "Carry ID at all times"

I remember 5th grade teachers saying we are the greatest country in the world because we don't have to carry papers.

[usedtobedemgurl]

24. But he offered his ID and the cops would not take it.

Carry it, but know it may not be of use to you!

[Demovictory9]

11. Leopard got his face

[Johnny2X2X]

12. I have 3 nieces who are half Mexican

I told their mother (my sister) that they need to take pictures of their birth certificates and keep them with them at all times. They don't speak Spanish, they have never been to Mexico, both their parents were born here, but they have darker skin and brown eyes.

[usedtobedemgurl]

25. Make sure to keep the real pix and not have it on their phone.

I think it was Zerlina Maxwell who had an activist on and she said not to have it on your phone because when you show it to them, then they have access to an opened phone.

[sop]

13. "I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to... just go against criminals,

not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals." I know several hispanics (self-loathing idiots all) who voted for Trump thinking the same thing. Wake up, assholes! MAGA racists don't care if you're a citizen, they want all dark-skinned hispanic looking people deported.

[Bluethroughu]

28. Exactly. My inlaws are self-loathing idiots, and believe they are immune.

[Tactical Peek]

14. (compulsory Peter Griffin color meme post)

[surfered]

15. It's something else......

First conservatives said they needed to deport undocumented immigrants like me because we don't pay taxes. Then trump went on TV and said him not paying taxes made him smart.

Then conservatives said undocumented immigrants like me should be deported because we bring crime, but then they voted for someone with 34 felonies.

Then conservatives said undocumented immigrants are a threat to national security, but then the FBI said the biggest threat is to national security is white supremacy and conservatives got mad about that.

I'm starting to think it's not because of national security or crime or taxes, I'm starting to think it's about something else.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

16. Marco Rubio

I kinda wish it happened to him instead, but you know he has some privilege...so I guess it won't, but I really want it too.

[Solly Mack]

17. Imagine my surprise

[Ping Tung]

18. America is becoming an "Aryan Only" sanctuary.

[lonely bird]

19. Not possible for me to care less...

About these imbeciles that voted for Trump.

They are responsible for ruining the country for everyone else.

[3auld6phart]

20. Karma

Those ICE gestapo seem to be as big as idiots that you are. … Voting for that orange pig shit,

[Karasu]

21. Face, meet leopard.

[Demobrat]

22. What these people fail to understand is that

JUST BEING HERE makes them one of the bad people their orange god was referring to.

[struggle4progress]

23. Who could have known the Nazis would be so mean-spirited?

[Harker]

26. I've seen a lot of, "because I thought..." lately. n/t

[Bluethroughu]

27. Stupid ignorant fool voting for trump, and why isn't he working to find out where his passengers are?

[NotHardly]

29. Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.

[senseandsensibility]

30. Well Hispanics are almost half the population where

I live, so I don't think those kinds of tactics would go over too well. I wouldn't be surprised if half the cops are Hispanic too.

[Vogon_Glory]

37. Same here. You'd think that there'd be turnover but

Texas Republicans seem to have convinced Mexican-Americans that they (the R’s) think they’re white people during election season, then go back to their usual behavior after the votes are counted.

[Buddyzbuddy]

31. Clearly a mistake was made Mr. Machado

They should have taken your dumb, sh.t for brains ass to detention and processed for deportation.
Not to worry, you still have many years to experience this again. PAPERS PLEASE! I can't wait to read all about it. Once you're in detention, make sure you share how you voted for this Felon and this policy enforcement, specifically. Because we know how our people would love to give you some extra special treatment.
I'm sorry DUers but my peeps that voted for the Felon, I consider to be worse than skum.

[Aristus]

32. That's a violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.

Time to call the ACLU.

[calimary]

33. And how did that work out for ya, dude?

Maybe he assumed trump had some sort of huge magical protection cloak or something. They see he seems to be invincible and maybe they think that invincibility will extend to them as well.

Guess again, Mr. Gullible.

[NBachers]

34. I hope this happens to you twice a day, you traitor-voting asshole

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Latino voters who vote for trump are finding out what mass deportation means

[W_HAMILTON]

36. White-passing Hispanics that thought they were part of Trump's MAGA gang are finding out pretty quickly they're not.

It ain't "white-passing" supremacy -- it's white supremacy.

Now that Trump and his MAGA no longer need your vote, they don't have to pretend to like you -- in their eyes, you are just like all the other minorities that they love to hate.

[LS0999]

38. "I voted for Trump last election"

No sympathy here. He got exactly what he voted for.