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Trump supporter/US citizen stopped and handcuffed by ICE for "looking hispanic" [View all]
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
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
Video in tweet below
12:48 PM · Mar 7, 2025
@LongTimeHistory
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
Video in tweet below
12:48 PM · Mar 7, 2025
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