We see the United States a series of arrests of civilians impersonating the ice officers American police
Police in southern California arrested a man suspected of being pretending to be a federal immigration officer this week, the latest in a series of these arrests, where disguised immigration agents are deployed, at the country level, to fulfill the goals of the Trump administration’s collective deportation.
The man, Fernando Diaz, was arrested by the Huntington Park Park after officers said they had found a massive pistol and official documents with internal security headlines in SUVs, According to the NBC Los Angeles network. Police said that the officers were booking his car parking in the disabled area when Diaz asked to recover the materials at home. Among the elements that the officers seen in the car were “multiple copies of passports not registered under the name of the individual,” according to NBC reports.
Diaz was arrested for possession of an unregistered firearm and released on bail.
Huntington Park and the mayor of Diaz were accused of impersonating the immigration agent at a press conference, a step for Diaz later to his NBC News he was surprised by him.
Diaz also denied the perpetrator that he was putting as an officer in the border patrol or enforcement of immigration and customs (ICE). At the press conference, the police offered a correspondent paper and found it inside his car with a customs head and the protection of the official border.
The arrest is one of the cases related to people who are claiming to impersonate immigration officials, as the campaign intensifies at the country’s level on uncomfortable immigrants.
Experts have warned that the increasing practice of federal agents of concealment during immigration raids and arrests makes it easy for professionals to put forward as federal employees.
Throughout the country, the scene of supernatural ice officers of the unique cars has become in small payments for increasingly common arrests.
In March, for example, a student of the University of Tatz was seen on the video that was arrested by masked ice officials outside her apartment, after her visa was canceled to write an opinion article in her university newspaper that defends the rights of the Palestinian. Many federal agents have been hidden in the Los Angeles region in recent weeks.
In late January, a week after Trump took office, a man was arrested in South Carolina and was charged with kidnapping and impersonating an officer, after he claimed that he was presenting himself as an ice officer and detained a group of Latin men.
In February, two people tried to impersonate the ice officers Enter the residence hall of the Temple University. CNN I mentioned The Philadelphia police later arrested one of them, a 22 -year -old student, who was accused of impersonating an officer.
In North Carolina in the same week, another man, Karl Thomas Bennett, was arrested after impersonating the ice officer and sexual assault on a woman. Bennett According to what was reported, he threatened to deport the woman If not.
In April, a man in Indiantown, Florida, was arrested for impersonating the ice officer and targeting immigrants. Two men told the police that the man had Fake traffic stoppedThen they requested their documents and the state of immigration.
Mike Germain, former FBI and his colleague at the Brennan Justice Center, told the Guardian last week that the shooting of two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, by the suspect who claimed to have impersonated a police officer, shed light on the police that are not similar to the police.
“The federal agents who wear unofficial masks and clothes increase from this danger that any citizen wearing clothes in a way that deceives the public to believe that they enforce the law so that they can engage in illegal activity. It is a threat to public safety, and it also represents a threat to agents and employees themselves, because people will not be able to distinguish immediately between family or illegal activity.