A Colombian national is facing up to 20 years in prison after allegedly breaking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer’s nose during an attempted arrest in Roselle, New Jersey back in February during an enforcement operation.
The 27-year-old man, identified as Hector Villegas-Alvarez, was approached by ICE agents who had determined he was unlawfully present in the United States and subject to deportation.
According to an official statement by the New Jersey Attorney’s Office, Villegas-Alvarez exited his vehicle when ordered to do so but physically resisted arrest, locking his arms and tensing his body when officers attempted to apply handcuffs.
Release the body cam footage or fuck off. I’m not believing a thing ICE says.
ETA: it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if another ICE officer broke her nose doing something supremely stupid and they’re trying to cover it up.
The problem is that the judges will.
Is it an arrest if there’s no due process though? Honest question. What are they arresting him for that would ever see trial? What crime was he even claimed of committing for an arrest?
Because if there’s no trial, then there’s no due process. Andnif there’s no due process, then it’s not an arrest, it’s a kidnapping.
In which case he should be punching those fucks in the face.
Yep, if there is no due process (making this a kidnapping), then this becomes valid self-defense.
Taking a different viewpoint, is general kidnapping now legal in the US? Why is ICE different?
Is this a life hack to avoid CECOT and rot a US jail instead?
Supremacists hate this one trick
Damn if that’s the punishment for hurting their poor little nosies might as well kill them.
At this point it should be open season.
I dont think they realize this but straight up if its life in prison or prison camps no matter what might as well curbstomp anyone trying to kidnap you instead of going peacefully, there is no benefit to peaceful resistance, you’re fucked eitherway
Or they do, and they’ll use it as an excuse to take even more freedom asay
They’ll make any excuse to keep pushing no matter what we do
Resist
A Colombian national is facing up to 20 years in prison
For the record, he was already facing life in prison. Or worse. This administration is not just sending people “back”. They’re sending people to die. Good luck trying to scare obedience into people on death row.
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At least they’ll probably get some due process now.
ACAB
Lol no they won’t. He’ll disappear next week.
the correct word is a snout
Considering in a sane timeline, every member of ICE would all be tried in international courts for crimes against humanity, I’d hope everyone would be breaking all their noses.
I’m disappointed the pig wasn’t shot in the face.
Except that then Hector would be facing murder charges.
So let me get this straight. A dude with no record and a judge order to prevent deportation, who didn’t resist law enforcement during his kidnapping, gets whisked away to a torture prison without pause, but a dude breaks a pig’s nose and gets to remain in the States? What incentive is there NOT to go down with the most violence you can against the abductors? When tRump is finally removed from power, hopefully with a hanging for treason, I hope the next president pardons people like Hector Villegas-Alvarez.
Piggies have a weak spot on their noses. Got it.
They are scared and think that harsh sentences will prevent them from getting their deserved punishments.
Who are these ICE agents anyway? Asking as a foreigner. Do they have the same authority as police? Are they police? If you refuse or stop them is that obstruction of justice/resisting?
They are technically “police”, but they get to do away with all the boring things that police normally have to do.
Some of them still work at the border doing customs work. Others are now fully dedicated to arresting and deporting people whose residency status is not OK.
Yes, they are federal police with broader authority because they enforce immigration policy. Just like immigration officers in any other country when you go through an airport. Anywhere within 100 miles of a port of entry (airports, boarders, ports) they can search and detain people. They started hiring double the amount of officers the day Trump won. Most of these people doing this crap are probably fresh recruits who got kicked out of pokice departments or coudn’t get hired in the first place. Basically party loyalists aka brownshirts.
So they are probably mostly people who hate immigrant/colored people and want to be able to do so professionally?
Always have been, but much less professional candidates now than before. They also do customs inspections for packages, containers, trucks, etc. Those people are probably just in it for a job, since they’re checking for drugs and other contraband.
What I am reading is “Undocumented Immigrant manages to escape a lack of due process by simply throwing fists.”
Anyone sent to El Salvador is never leaving according to their president. It’s surprising it took so long for the people being taken to figure out.
They are going to be thrown in a prison and forgotten about regardless. What’s the threat of a few years of jail for fighting back when they won’t see the light of day if they submit anyway.
May as well go down swinging.
He gets to stay in the US, at least 🤷
And as terrible as for-profit American prisons are, it’s better than CECOT.
escape?
He’s now in the court system for assaulting an officer, instead of being spirited away to ICE detention and deported without ever seeing a judge.
Huh…
“I can tell you,” my colleague went on, “of a man in Leipzig, a judge. He was not a Nazi, except nominally, but he certainly wasn’t an anti-Nazi. He was just-a judge. In '42 or '43, early '43, I think it was, a Jew was tried before him in a case involving, but only incidentally, relations with an ‘Aryan’ woman. This was ‘race injury,’ something the Party was especially anxious to punish. In the case at bar, however, the judge had the power to convict the man of a ‘nonracial’ offense and send him to an ordinary prison for a very long term, thus saving him from Party ‘processing’ which would have meant concentration camp or, more probably, deportation and death. But the man was innocent of the ‘nonracial’ charge, in the judge’s opinion, and so, as an honorable judge, he acquitted him. Of course, the Party seized the Jew as soon as he left the courtroom.”
-They thought they were free, the Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, 1955
The existence of two parallel systems of criminal “justice,” where one blatantly acts at the whims of a maniacal regime, is definitely a sign of stability and freedom. Probably.
I mean his ICE issues don’t go away. He could spend 20 years in jail and THEN get deported.
Under (maybe) a different President. With a chance he’d end up safely back in his own country, not a Salvadoran death camp. I’d roll the dice.
20 years from now? I think the “maybe” is unnecessary regardless of whether the US ever has free elections again.
Good for him, fuck these people. Not so good for him. Is the jail time. But what’s the difference at this point?
Probably won’t be tortured here. Might be pardoned by the next administration if his story gets enough publicity and his family can keep the attention on him.
Assuming there is a next administration
