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One American the man was pulled out restaurantForcefully arrested and detained for two hours by masked federal Immigration Officer, According to reports.
The 20 year old young man who gave MPR News Only His first name, Mubashir, moved to America from somalia as a child and later became a Natural citizen.
Mubashir was out on his lunch break in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, when he was arrested on Tuesday.
Mubashir said that while walking on the street near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue, he saw two masked men approaching him and ran to a nearby restaurant to avoid them.
The two men followed him inside, pulled him out and arrested him. Mubashir was also forced to his knees in the snow and strangled, CBS NewsInformed.
Mubashir began shouting to the officers, “I have my ID”; However, the agents did not respond.
When he was put in the car, Mubashir was asked if the agents could take his photograph.
“I refused, because how would a photo prove I was a US citizen?” He said.
“I told him, ‘I have my passport, it’s in my phone. Can I open it and show it to you?’ He denied. I asked him ‘Can I tell you my name and date of birth?’ they refused.”
Due to Mubashir’s refusal to have his photograph taken, he remained sitting in the car for about an hour. The agents also tried to take his fingerprints; However, his machine was not working.
Mubashir said officers took him to the ICE detention facility at Fort Snelling, where he was arrested. He claimed that the officers were lost and not aware of their surroundings.
“They kept going back on the same highway. I said to them, ‘Are you guys lost?; they said, ‘This is our first time taking anybody in’. They had their maps and everything and they were trying to scare me,” he said.
Once they arrived, officers held him outside until he agreed to have his face scanned; However, like the first machine, the second machine was not working, so it was brought inside.
At the facility, a staff member allowed him to turn in his phone to show his ID, prompting them to release Mubashir as his parents came to pick him up.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who has been a staunch supporter of the Somali community in his city, said the actions of ICE agents were unconstitutional.
“What we saw from these ICE agents, who clearly didn’t know what they were doing, was violence and an unwillingness to listen to the simple truth that they were repeating over and over again, which is, ‘I am an American citizen,'” he said.
,[He was] “He has been taken into custody for the time being, walking down the street and appearing to be Somali, in clear violation of the law and the Constitution of the United States.”
President Donald Trump has been Inflaming tensions against the Somali immigrant populationHe described the community as “trash” and said he did not want them in the country.
Federal agents have also launched a crackdown against Minnesota Somalis, drawing criticism from Somali community leaders and Democrats, including Frey and Governor Tim Walz.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Has also branded Trump national embarrassment on x After his statements against immigrants and Somalis.
“He needs serious help,” she wrote. “Since he has no economic policies to articulate, he is resorting to blatant lies instead.
“He remains a national embarrassment.”
About 84,000 of the country’s 260,000 Somalis live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, most of them are American citizens. About 58 percent were born in the US, and 87 percent of those born elsewhere are naturalized citizens.
A new website was launched by Department of Homeland Security A list of at least six Somalis arrested in Minnesota in recent weeks. The site says it is “highlighting the worst criminal aliens” arrested by ICE to show how agents are “fulfilling President Trump’s promise and carrying out mass deportations.”