Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street.
The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.
“They asked us if we have papers. I said I do but I don’t have them on me,” Cruz, a 60-year old man with heart problems originally from El Salvador, recalled in Spanish.
The agents stood Cruz up, put him in their truck, drove around in circles, and asked questions, he said.
Now that’s some 1939 Gestapo crap if I’ve ever seen it.
I hope he gets rich from suing them.
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And beeline to the poc.
He was technically required to have his papers on him and the Supreme Court made it legal to racially profile people… which is just sad but it does mean he has no recourse
From the article:
“I feel sad because, even though we were born here, that doesn’t matter any more,” the cousin said. She added: “To have our skin color has, apparently, become a crime. And it has become a crime deserving of this type of treatment – as if we were real criminals.”
😶
Maybe they let ya back out… maybe ya end up like Emmett Till or James Byrd Jr
I mean, sad as it is, fines are an improvement over just straight kidnapping people regardless of citizenship.
The bar is in hell.
I mean they kidnapped him too when they stood him up and put him in a car for a drive around the block
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That will be a fun law suit
Nothing new. Wife is green card holder and they were clear it must always be with her when we got it almost 10 years ago
this is litterally that one scene from the phineas and ferb movie (the 1st one) where this robot asks for papers or else death
