In a declaration filed in federal court, Leo Garcia Venegas said he was parking in front of his house in Silverhill, Alabama, on the morning of May 2 when an unmarked SUV blocked him in. Venegas claimed that before he could hand his Alabama-issued REAL ID to the two federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who approached him, they pulled him out of the truck he was driving and handcuffed him.
What makes the incident extraordinary is that Venegas is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit challenging DHS’ immigration enforcement policies, and it was the third time he’s been handcuffed and detained by ICE agents. Venegas was detained twice in 2025 during raids on private construction sites where he was working, even though he had a REAL ID identifying him as a U.S. citizen.
Til about REAL ID
Good lord. You really adopted some weird habits.
who says racism is ingrained in the USA?
Everyone.
Nope, only people with functioning brains.
Years of eroding the education system coupled with social media means that this is a dwindling population.
The guy’s laughing all the way to the bank, and the next, and the next…
Hope he gets rich off it.
I wish it could come out of someone’s pocket other than OURS.
The article implies his skin isn’t too dark and he is a he.
These are things a US lawyer can work with well if he can afford the upfront cost of Justice.
Edit; Yup. That’s where we at.
“Your honor, my client stands accused of falsely arresting an innocent man twice. However, the record clearly shows that he, in fact, arrested him three times. My client is therefore innocent and I move to have all charges dismissed.”
I’ll bet his lawyer got giddy when he heard about the third arrest.
Hm I wonder why he specifically gets targeted. Can’t see any reason why in the OG image
You may be colourblind
even though he had a REAL ID identifying him as a U.S. citizen.
I don’t think REAL ID can be used to explicitly identify you as a US citizen. But it can be used to identify you as a legal resident of some form (either a citizen or a permanent resident). So they should still be good enough.
But when have ICE agents in this administration ever cared about legality or proof of anything. Gotta make them quotas!
You can beat the charge, but you can’t beat the ride. Or the 3 weeks in prison, or the bond, or the lawyer fees, or the lost job, or the inconvenience, etc.
ICE doesn’t care about legality. My coworker was kidnapped by ICE and they held him and his brother for eight months. Their mother fought these brown shirts at every step to release them, but any legal document she and the lawyer presented was dismissed by ICE as being fake.
ICE = US SS.
No, they’re the brownshirts. They’ll be purged before the SS takes over.
The Proud Boys, 3 Percenters, etc, are the Brownshirts.
ICE was perfectly positioned to take over as the new SS, but they got a little too froggy a little too fast, and they got shut down. Now it’s doubtful that they’ll be able to ever rise to their previous power.
Some other government entity will have to become the new SS, but it’s already starting to come apart, and I doubt any agency could rise at this point. Todd Flinstone is trying to weaponize the DoJ, but the judges aren’t buying it, and if any of those cases ever manage to come in front of a jury, we are going to see a major discussion over jury nullification in this country.
MAGA has peaked, and they are already wilting. The Midterms are still going to a bloodbath, even with MAGA gerrymandering. That will be the Dem’s Normandy Invasion, the point where the MAGA downfall becomes inevitable, even to them. That’s when the fleas will be leaping off the Lame Duck’s ass, and running for cover.
It is sad how ICE treats legal citizens with no criminal history the same as how police treat deadly criminals, yet for some reason both turn their heads when the illegals and criminals are running the country.
That’s just cops doing cop stuff. For most cops, the worst offense you can commit is challenging their ego. ICE cops say you’re illegal, so you provide proof of legal status which refutes that accusation, and now you’re tackled for made-up bullshit.
They don’t turn their heads to those running the country. Cops are their private security, paid for by your tax dollars. Cops are and always have been an army existing to protect capital and punish the poor and minorities. Anybody who thinks otherwise fell for the copaganda. There are a few good apples in the bunch, and they will be assimilated or purged from the bad apple club within a few years.
Touch grass, my dude.
YOU are the problem.
Go lick a cops boot, my dude.
I am touching grass. Resist the hypnotic, dancing shadows and climb up out of the cave, my dude.
No don’t.
Tear the grass up and plant a tree.
What does that have to do with anything? It’s very ontopic given the post.
We NEED to get these CRIMINALS out! Which is why we’re going After PEOPLE AT HOME while Allowing CHILD MOLESTERS AND RAPISTS to Roam Free in Washington!
