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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat May 24, 2025, 01:11 PM May 24

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released

A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday.

Video of the arrest, aired by Noticias Telemundo, showed authorities grabbing Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, while at a job site in Foley, Alabama, on Wednesday and bending his arms behind him. Someone off-camera can be heard yelling, "He's a citizen."

Garcia told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him. REAL ID is the identification U.S. citizens are required by law to have in order to travel through airports and enter federal buildings. It is considered a higher security form of identification.

"Apparently a REAL ID is not valid anymore. He has a REAL ID," his cousin Shelah Venegas said. "We all made sure we have the REAL ID and went through the protocols the administration is asking for. ... He has his REAL ID and then they see him and I guess because his English isn't fluent and/or because he's brown it's fake, it's not real."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-citizen-real-id-handcuffed-214202859.html

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U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 24 OP
ICE needs to be shut down now, and Tom Homan and Kevin Roberts need to do time in maximum security NOW! Initech May 24 #1
You are too kind drmeow May 24 #2
I think the whole damn Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society need to be shut down. Initech May 24 #5
Send them to El Salvador.😀 Phoenix61 May 24 #3
That would be a fitting punishment! Initech May 24 #4

Initech

(105,006 posts)
1. ICE needs to be shut down now, and Tom Homan and Kevin Roberts need to do time in maximum security NOW!
Sat May 24, 2025, 01:22 PM
May 24

And also every single ICE agent needs to be arrested and charged with crimes against humanity.

drmeow

(5,605 posts)
2. You are too kind
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:24 PM
May 24

I'm anti-death penalty but I would not make a single objection if they were sentenced to death by firing squad.

Initech

(105,006 posts)
5. I think the whole damn Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society need to be shut down.
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:04 PM
May 24

They overstepped their boundaries and crossed lines that shouldn't be crossed with this administration.

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