Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44121230

March 6, 2026

The moment 19-year-old Emely Agustin spotted the group of masked immigration agents tackling a woman facedown on the pavement, her heart dropped.

She saw the woman’s red jacket.

“Oh my fucking God. That’s my mom!” she screamed.

It was the morning of 5 November in Cottage Grove, in central Oregon, and masked officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had dragged Juanita Avila out of her van. The agents pinned her down as she cried out for her daughter, who started filming. Juanita, a 47-year-old legal permanent resident, had her green card in her pocket, but officers handcuffed and detained her.

  • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    4 hours ago

    I mean its obviously not about “removing illegals” ( not that that would be a good thing ) but about mass terror of an underclass.

  • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    Ofc they don’t care. They have carte blanche to do whatever they want until Shitler is gone. If you oppose the regime-- aka not a nazi-- then they could kidnap you. It’s not arrest. They aren’t cops. Call it what it is: illegal disgusting fascist 100% KIDNAPPING.

    Tick tock… Nuremberg…

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    7 hours ago

    Of course they didn’t care, they have a arrest quota to fill. The fact that they’re arresting innocent people that will later be released at great cost for the government doesn’t matter, we must have action for actions sake.

  • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
    39·
    7 hours ago

    Exactly why EVERYONE in this regime needs prison or worse; these violations are blatant and as we’ve seen WILL HAPPEN AGAIN unless we make that impossible.