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ICE THREW A U.S. CITIZEN TO THE GROUND. THEN DHS SMEARED HIM WITH CLAIMS IT CAN’T PROVE. Brandon Domena was recording an ICE operation from a Passaic sidewalk when masked agents tackled and handcuffed him. He says ICE held him for five hours without water, restroom access, medical attention or a phone call. He was released and has not been charged. PAXIS confirms that DHS claims he spat toward an agent and kicked an officer. Domena and witnesses deny it. Public footage substantiates neither allegation. ICE has released no body-camera video, despite announcing that every arrest team would have at least one camera. If ICE has evidence, release it. Until then, allegations are not facts. They are lies used to justify force after the fact. This is why https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY matters. PAXIS helps immigrants and citizens understand their right to record, document agents, vehicles and locations, and preserve evidence before ICE writes its own version of events. A badge is not evidence. Record everything. KEEP PAXIS FREE: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

ICE LIED. TRUMP’S SYCOPHANTS REPEATED THE LIE. A CAMERA EXPOSED THEM. ICE claimed agent Christian Castro was beaten with a shovel and broom before firing in self-defense. Surveillance footage proved the lie. Prosecutors allege Castro fired through the door of an occupied home, shooting Julio Sosa-Celis, then lied to cover the truth. Charges against the immigrants were dismissed. Castro now faces four felony assault counts and a false-reporting charge. But what if that camera had not existed? How many ICE lies have gone unchallenged because nobody recorded the truth? https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY helps immigrants and citizens document agents and preserve evidence. A badge is not evidence. Record everything. Keep PAXIS free: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

FIVE FEDERAL AGENTS PIN A US CITIZEN TO THE GROUND WHILE HE BEGS THEM TO CHECK HIS ID. He repeatedly screams for his coworker to bring his identification. The agents ignore him. They have enough manpower to crush him into the pavement, but apparently not enough competence or decency for one of them to look at the ID and verify whom they are arresting. This is what racial profiling looks like: detain first, brutalize first, ask questions later. https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY helps immigrants and citizens know their rights, document federal agents and preserve evidence of unconstitutional conduct. A badge is not evidence. Record everything. Help keep PAXIS free: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

🚨BREAKING: An ICE/Border Patrol agent approached a U.S. citizen’s car, opened the door without permission, took his keys, threatened to arrest him if he didn’t prove his citizenship, and STILL refused to return his keys after he showed his U.S. PASSPORT. And then, the agent admitted ON CAMERA that the entire detention was unlawful. And here is what makes this even more disturbing… At no point did the agent claim this man committed an actual crime, but still threatened to arrest him. He was just a person who pulled over near a federal immigration operation. And because of that, the agent walked up to his vehicle, opened his door, took his keys, and threatened to put him in jail unless he proved he was a U.S. citizen. Which is not how constitutional rights work. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. The U.S. citizen repeatedly asked… “Why am I being detained?” The agent first claimed he was “suspected of being illegal.” But, they didn’t have evidence to back that claim. And even after showing his U.S. PASSPORT, they refused to give him his keys back… When the U.S. citizen continued questioning why he was detained… the justification changed. Now, the agent claims he was supposedly “impeding an immigration investigation.” The man asked, “How did I impede?” The agent answered, “You pulled up right here.” That was the reason… He pulled over. The man asked, “Did I walk over there?” The agent said, “No.” “You walked to me.” The agent admitted to that. The man never left his car. He never blocked agents. He never interfered with an arrest. He pulled over… and the agent came to him. And note, the issue was never that agent told the U.S. citizen to leave… Then, after failing to justify an excuse for stealing this U.S. citizen’s keys, and threatening to arrest him if he didn’t prove his citizenship, the agent said he detained him because… “You are their boss and you hire illegal aliens.” So, the agent’s justification was not that this U.S. citizen committed a crime, it was that he was connected to people they were investigating. This is exactly why constitutional protections exist. Because if law enforcement can decide someone “looks suspicious,” demand proof of citizenship, seized their property, and threaten to arrest them until they comply with unlawful orders, those rights mean nothing. People have a right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures… regardless of their appearance, their ethnicity, or who they know. And this agent’s own words expose him: He didn’t stop this man. He didn’t pull him over. He didn’t catch him committing a crime. He approached a U.S. citizen, unlawfully detained him, and then tried to justify it afterward.

BREAKING🚨 ICE detained a 16-year-old girl on her way to church, then told her father he could come pick her up. When he walked in, they arrested him too. Both are now locked inside the Dilley detention camp. Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo, a student at Churchill High School in San Antonio, was riding to Sunday mass on July 12 with a friend, another minor, when agents stopped the car. It started as a traffic stop over a faulty light on the vehicle. Minutes after leaving the house, Emely sent her mother a photo to tell her she had been taken. A witness recorded it. She spent two days in a local processing center… Then ICE told the family that because she is a minor, a parent had to come in person, and that if no one did, she could be sent out of state. Her father, Fernando Suaza Ortiz, went to the Crosspoint processing center in San Antonio. They would not hand his daughter over. They detained him instead, charged him over his entry into the country, and set a $5,000 bond. He worked at the Hilton Garden Inn. The family came from Colombia in 2023 and filed for asylum. They have made every appointment and hearing since. They have work permits and driver's licenses. "Neither has committed a crime. Their asylum case is pending. Now they're both sitting at the Dilley Trailer Prison," Castro wrote, saying ICE used a teenage girl to get to her father.

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent admitted, ON VIDEO, that he had no legal justification to keep questioning a U.S. citizen about his immigration status… But continued harassing him anyway, while illegally detaining him… in Eagle, Idaho. In the video, mask ICE agents approach a construction site. One masked agent orders a man to put down the pole he’s carrying, so he can question him… while another agent walks up to a man who is setting concrete. The man setting concrete tells the agent he isn’t going to talk to him because he’s working. The agent ignores him and says… “Where were you born? We are looking for someone.” The man tells him he doesn’t care who they’re looking for… He’s working. Instead of leaving him alone, the agent gets in his way, and demands his identification. The man says he doesn’t have an ID on him… So, the agent demands his name. The man tells him he’s a legal U.S. citizen, and that’s all he needs to tell him. The agent ignores that, and keeps harassing him with… Where were you born? Where are you from? The United States? The U.S. citizens keeps trying to tell the agent he needs to work before the concrete is sets, and tries to walk away. But the agent keeps following and blocking the U.S. citizen until he finally tells the agent to get off of him, and demands the agent’s name and badge number. The agent responds… “I’m asking YOU the questions.” Then, another agent says, “Let’s go.” And the agent finally walks away, saying… “Okay, that’s fine. HE’S NOT OUR GUY ANYWAY.” THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU KEEP HARASSING HIM?! ICE cannot just stop or detain someone because they want to know where they were born. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable seizures, and ICE agents need reasonable suspicion to detain someone for immigration questioning. And if this was just a “voluntary conversation,” the man was free to walk away. Instead, the agent followed him, blocked him from working, repeatedly demanded his identity and birthplace, and continued confronting him AFTER he tried to walk away. And that should piss everyone off. Because this wasn’t about finding the person they were looking for… The agent admitted that he KNEW the man wasn’t their guy. But that didn’t stop the armed federal agent from following and harassing a U.S. citizen. And it’s exactly how constitutional rights disappear… one “small” violation at a time… until we’re expected to accept the government treating our rights like they’re optional.