Why is ICE shooting at people in the streets?
On Thursday an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent opened fire in a Nashville immigrant neighborhood after a man refused to show his ID. ICE spokesman Bryan Cox claims the man was attempting to assault ICE agents. But surveillance video obtained by local news station NC5 shows Cox is lying and that at no time were any of the agents in any form of danger.
Nashville Mayor David Briley said, “This is exactly what we don’t want happening in our city.”
Brenda Pérez, of the grassroots group Movements Including X, or MIX, told Latino Rebels Radio agents approached three men, asking for ID, outside the Antioch Food Lion, a well-known carpooling location for immigrants. Two of the men complied, but the third man exercised his right to not show an ID without a proper warrant signed by a judge.
Apparently, defying a direct order by an ICE agent has become a crime punishable by immediate execution, and one of the agents pulled his gun and fired several shots at the victim as he got into a van and drove away.
The FBI has not has not filed any charges against the victim and says he poses no threat to the community, despite Cox’s attempts to smear him. Neither did ICE have a warrant for his arrest. They were just randomly targeting innocent people getting ready for work, completely unconcerned with the safety and well-being of the neighbors or their children.
“The ICE agent who was involved in this incident was one of two agents involved in a prior incident that occurred [in July, when] ICE attempted to use MNPD’s presence to intimidate a father to leave his vehicle after he calmly and lawfully refused.” https://www.latinorebels.com/2019/09/...
The victim, who has three sons, spent several hours in hiding before surrendering himself to FBI agents at the Nashville hospital while seeking medical attention for the two gunshots wounds he suffered, a reminder that there’s an entire population forced live in the shadows, under constant threat. These people become easy prey for shady employers and human traffickers.
And it’s not just a few rogue agents. The entire agency has come under increased scrutiny for widespread abuses, including targeting more than 600 immigrants at a meat packing plant in Mississippi last month, and separating over 2700 children from their parents this summer.
How easily we’ve slipped from rounding u a few “bad hombres” to randomly shooting immigrants in the streets.
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