ICE arrests California father and leaves his children behind in car: witness

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

Immigration advocates on California’s Central Coast are reeling after Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations reportedly conducted operations across the region this week, including a May 4 arrest in Oxnard that reportedly left two young people alone at a gas station after agents detained their father.

“They arrested someone,” gas station attendant Juan Conches said in Spanish in a video shared by 805 UndocuFund, an immigrant advocacy group. “They left the children inside the truck.”

The station attendant said he saw about six vehicles surround the truck before the arrest.

The advocacy group identified one of the man’s children as a 19-year-old “old enough to be alone but unable to drive, stranded, and powerless to leave.” The age of the other is unknown.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ice-oxnard-california-gas-station-b2748547.html

[riversedge]

1. I wonder if these ICE agents have a quota and get rewards based on their numbers of arrests??

[lonely bird]

2. If that were the case

I would be stunned…or not.

It certainly would not be surprising.

[2naSalit]

3. And...

Number of people they screwed with. They'll rip your home to shreds and leave, they'll arrest you and leave your kids stranded too... if they don't beat or kill you on the spot in front of everyone. Shooting hasn't happened yet? Won't be long. Probably saving that for the next escalation.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Pay based on number of arrests and brutality photo op potential?

These people are going so fast and are so cruel there has to be a financial incentive.

[markodochartaigh]

13. History may not repeat,

but it sure does rhyme.


https://www.jackmillercenter.org/article/slave-catchers-all

[DENVERPOPS]

14. We should re-mame them in everything we say or do,

including any media that we have.............

FASCISTICE........or better yet.......GESTAPOICE........

Soon they will have little brown uniforms for the MAGAots kids, roving the streets looking for people to turn in......

[poli-junkie]

4. I suspect there's a quota.

[JoseBalow]

5. "one of the man's children as a 19-year-old"

[AntiFascist]

7. Meanwhile, according to Lisa Rubin...

strawberries in Oxnard are dying on the vine because Trump's immigration policies are scaring pickers:

Link to tweet

[DENVERPOPS]

15. Can't you all see,

this is all a part of their plan................one incident, and they can achieve striking their FEAR into hundreds, if not thousands of migrant workers across the nation, as well as anyone who isn't white........

[sheshe2]

8. It's about the cruelty and the amount of pain they can cause.

[Aviation Pro]

9. Six vehicles for one guy

Not a good use of resources. Their numbers are way down.

[paleotn]

10. Performative cruelty. Efficiency had nothing to do with it.

The game is fear. For immigrants and for us. But I’m not scared. I’m pissed as fucking hell!!!

[LittleGirl]

12. I got over the fear and it turned to

RAGE.

[paleotn]

17. Exactly!!!

Rage, properly focused, is one hell of a motivator.

[Grim Chieftain]

11. I wouldn't be surprised if they charged the dad

with child abandonment. This has to STOP!!!!

[lostnfound]

16. 19 is not a child, clickbait headline.

What this administration is doing to immigrants is abhorrent, probably often illegal, and nauseating.
But 19 is not a child. I’d rather the asshole ICE bros left my 19 year old alone (along with underage siblings) than brought them into custody.