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immigration and customs enforcement agent He pointed a gun at a family, including a mother holding her 3-month-old baby, as they entered their home oregon Home, footage of the incident was shown.
The moment is shown in a video recorded by Mary Magana and posted on Facebook ICE agent Kicked down the bedroom door at the family’s apartment in Gresham, about 17 miles away outside portlandWednesday evening. The video has been shared on social media.
The child’s grandmother, Gloria Bautista, told Independent that his daughter has been abandoned Shaken by the ordeal.
“Mother is so traumatized that she is afraid of anything, she trembles all the time,” he said.
Agents were heard yelling, “Police, don’t move, hands up,” and were seen pointing their weapons at the family after breaking down the door as they sat in the room.
The child captured by Magana was heard crying off camera after the agents yelled at him.
“It’s unfair that they scared my child,” Magana wrote in a Facebook post accompanying the footage. “We are not criminals to be treated this way, let alone have a gun pointed at us.”
Two male relatives who were in the room were detained by ICE agents in a confrontation where an agent appeared to grab one of them by the hair and drag him back from the room. Both suspects have been taken to a detention center in nearby Tacoma, Washington.
A senior official of the Department of Homeland Security said Independent There were “no injuries” in the operation, which was targeting “a violent criminal illegal alien previously removed from Mexico” who remains at large.
“ICE officers attempted to pull over this criminal illegal alien by stopping the vehicle,” the official said. “He attempted to elude arrest and crashed into a United States Postal Service vehicle before fleeing on foot into an apartment. After refusing to come out, law enforcement entered the apartment.”
“The target survived and is still absconding,” the officer said. “Two other aliens from Mexico were found inside the apartment and were taken into ICE custody at the scene.”
The family claimed that the detainees were in the US legally.
According to the Latino news outlet, Magana filmed the moment ICE agents kicked down the door as they had been attempting to enter the property for hours. Northwest News NW.
An agent was heard telling the mother: “Why don’t you hang up, we’re at your house right now.”
A gofundme Request Launched by Ashley Valdez, who said she was Magana’s cousin, wrote that agents “forcefully came in with guns drawn” and that the mother “feared for her newborn child.”
“Her daughter was there and captured everything on camera because she was afraid for her 3-month-old newborn baby about what would happen next,” Valdez said.
gofundme When contacted, it was confirmed that the page launched by Valdez to seek support for attorney fees was legitimate. Independent.
“These people are not criminals,” Valdez said. “They’re hard-working people, they don’t deserve this.”
The Trump administration has sought to deploy the National Guard to Portland in recent weeks, but federal judges have blocked it. Trump has branded the liberal city “war-torn” as part of his crackdown on crime, and the Portland ICE facility has become a battleground for anti-immigration protesters and federal agents.