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Papers Please

ICE agents mistakenly try to grab Latino county worker near courthouse

Federal agents mistook a longtime Washington County employee for an illegal immigrant just as a nearby demonstration against arrests of undocumented immigrants ended at the courthouse in Hillsboro.

The mistake rattled Isidro Andrade-Tafolla, a married father of three children who lives in Forest Grove and has worked as a road maintenance worker for the county for nearly 20 years.

"It was frightening, disturbing, humiliating and I'm still trying to process being stopped because of my color and my race," he said Tuesday.

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"They never identified themselves even when my wife and I kept asking who they were and why they wanted my information," said Andrade-Tafolla, 46.

"I gave them my name. They said they had a picture of me, that I wasn't here legally and when they showed my wife and I the picture, there was no resemblance except we were both Hispanic." The woman in the van had the photo on her cellphone.
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It appears that being an incompetent racist isn't disqualifying for ICE officers.
 
"This is you in this picture, a known illegal alien!", shows random picture of a Latino.

This is the "Oops, I transposed the digits of your license plate" lie for a different scenario.
 
These laws are so awful one could almost imagine the challenge being made that they result in prior restraint of merely existing.

I remember one of the many weak excuses for a traffic stop a few years ago was "you match the description of someone we have warrants on."

Well, if I take the entire set of "people the police have warrants on", my best description of what to look for seems to be "anything vaguely humanoid."

I'll bet not a single one of us wouldn't feel a moment of paranoia if we flipped through a warrant list and eventually came upon a familiar-looking height/build/eye/hair/ethnicity description.
 
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Delphic Oracle said:
I'll bet not a single one of us wouldn't feel a moment of paranoia if we flipped through a warrant list and eventually came upon a familiar-looking height/build/eye/hair/ethnicity description.
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Something like that happened with my friends just after the Oklahoma City Bombing. When they published the police sketches of the two suspects, essentially everyone who knew them both said, "Hey, that's Liam and Danny!" 2-for-2 with the most wanted guys in the US at the time.

Lucky for them they were in Canada...
 
Sometimes having the proper paperwork isn't enough to keep ICE away.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez shot down the federal government’s efforts to strip Daniel Ramirez Medina of his DACA status. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement had arrested and detained Ramirez last year, then falsely claimed that he was affiliated with a gang and attempted to deport him. He filed suit, alleging that ICE had violated his due process rights. Martinez agreed. His order barred the federal government from voiding Ramirez’s DACA status, safeguarding his ability to live and work in the United States legally for the foreseeable future. What may be most remarkable about Martinez’s decision, though, is its blunt repudiation of ICE’s main claim—that Ramirez is “gang-affiliated.” The judge did not simply rule against ICE. He accused the agency of lying to a court of law.

The facts of Ramirez’s case are extremely disturbing. In February 2017, shortly after President Donald Trump unleashed immigration agents to amp up arrests and deportations, ICE agents went to Ramirez’s father’s house in Seattle to arrest him. (The father is undocumented, and brought Ramirez to the U.S. illegally as a child.) While there, they encountered Ramirez and asked him whether he was “legally here.” He responded that he was—a truthful statement given his DACA status, which he had renewed the previous May. Yet ICE officers detained him anyway. They took him to a processing center, where, once again, he told them that he had work permit.

“It doesn’t matter,” an agent responded, “because you weren’t born in this country.”

ICE then interrogated Ramirez, fingerprinted and booked him, confiscated his work permit, sent him to a detention center, and placed him in removal proceedings. It also purported to revoke his DACA status, subjecting him to imminent deportation. Typically, the government may not rescind an individual’s DACA status without giving the beneficiary an opportunity to contest its decision. But ICE claimed that Ramirez’s DACA benefits could be terminated “automatically” because he presented an “egregious public safety concern” due to his alleged gang affiliation. (ICE routinely alleges that Latino immigrants with no indication of gang affiliation are members of a gang in order to detain and deport them.)
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Stacko said:
Sometimes having the proper paperwork isn't enough to keep ICE away.
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This just highlights the fact that the problem is not Trump. The problem is the ******** who support him.

These ICE agents didn't become racist ******** when Trump was elected. His election just (made them think it) allowed them to act out their racism. Decent people would have found a million ways to not let this happen. But these douchewads went out of their way, lying and doctoring and inventing evidence in order to treat this guy like ****. Why did they do it? Because they thought they could. It was only the previous rules against treating people like **** that prevented them from doing it.

Yeah, ultimately Trump is the one who opened the gates, but the animals were already wild and just needed an excuse.
 
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