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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest (www.theguardian.com)

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Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

Clare Considine Fri 25 Jul 2025 13.19 EDT

Video footage of the incident captured by Laynez-Ambrosio... appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men*, two of whom are undocumented. They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”

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[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Even at Stephen Goebbels Miller's unrealistic 3000 arrests per day, it would take 25 years to capture all the undocumented people in the US, let alone deport them all. It is about the cruelty, white supremacy, and establishing a police state, not immigration.