Shame: ICE Inflicts Generational Trauma on Wrong Man as His Children and Wife Sob

ICE grabbed the wrong man in front of an immigration building. His children started sobbing as his wife refused to leave his side. Turns out, they grabbed the wrong man.

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As Republicans whip the vote to give ICE unfettered funds to violate American freedoms, a heartbreaking recording was shared by a legal network working to help protect Mexican Americans and Latinos in California.

The video shows ICE grabbing a man who was in front of the federal immigration building at Federal Plaza 26.

The post reads:

IT WASN’T HIM! But ICE almost destroyed his family - what if I were your dad?”
“They mistook him for another man. They were going to separate him from his family. The trauma is done.
Panic sets in and a family cries as federal immigration agents try to separate a man from his loved ones in front of the immigration building at Federal Plaza 26.

The reason?
A confusion.
IT WASN’T HIM!

But that didn’t stop the ICE agents.
They surrounded him. They screamed.
They treated his wife and children as if they were nothing.
As if skin color were proof of guilt.

There is no date on this, but it was shared 13 hours ago by the legal network account and includes masked “Police” /ICE agents, at least one of whom is wearing an American flag on his uniform.

It corroborates previously unverified and verified reports of the traumatic ICE events occurring in and around immigration courts right now. It’s my estimation that the value of witnessing this distress and publicizing it overrides the fact that there isn’t a date. Additionally, commenters say the lawyer seen with a manbun is spotted helping immigrants in a lot of court hearing right now, all of which adds veracity to the video.

Warning: The video is very disturbing.

Commenter Syllstring translated what the mother and wife is heard saying, “She is pleading how they are not delinquents and have done nothing and that it is in God's hands and that if they are going to report them to take them all. They are a family and they will leave together. She then pleads for him to not break down. She pleads for him not to be upset because they have done nothing wrong and to think of the children watching. 💔”

Armed, masked men surrounded this family as these children sobbed.

Imagine being suddenly surrounded with armed masked men grabbing at you to drag you away from your family as your children cried.

This family got “lucky” in that ICE had the wrong man. But that means somewhere in that building, a man was probably taken by force away from his family all for showing up to his immigration hearing.

This kind of trauma does not leave just because it worked out in the end. The knowledge that the U.S. government is sending armed, masked people out to grab you at any moment is a trauma that will not leave the mother or father for their lifetime, and those children will never forget this moment either, even though both parents tried to shield the children from their own panic.

As we watch the trauma of armed, masked men grabbing a father in front of his children and wife, Republicans are busy whipping up votes to pass Trump’s Big Spending Bill, which includes around $150 billion for his “immigration” “policies” (I take issue with calling criminal behavior a policy).

The $150 billion price tag for Trump’s deliberate infliction of trauma on generations of families will embolden ICE to rachet up their bounty hunting behavior all over the country, with $29.9 billion to ICE, an additional $2 billion to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), $46 billion for the southern border wall and $45 billion for migrant detention centers.

The Senate version of the bill will add at least $3.3 trillion to the deficit over a decade according to the nonpartisan CBO, so Republicans are not even trying to look fiscally responsible anymore.

And what about their alleged “family values”? This does not look like family values.

What can yo do? Call your Representatives today to tell them you don’t want them to fund Trump’s immoral ICE kidnappings.

It’s easy to find your Rep using the 5 Calls App or website linked here.

What do you think about what ICE is doing to families? Share your thoughts in the comments below.