Mother arrested by ice in Worcester faces attack
Accusations caused by domestic conflict led to the ice halt of Lozen Ferreira de Oliveira 40 years ago.
As President Donald Trump’s crackdown spread, the weekend continued with chaotic scenes from immigrant arrests across the country.
The arrest allegedly wanted an immigrant mother, restaurant workers and criminals.
According to a video shared by local CBS station, immigration authorities stormed a popular San Diego Italian restaurant before Friday’s dinner rush and arrested several kitchen workers.
When heavily armed agents entered the restaurant, local residents yelled at them and filmed the scene. The agents wore tactical gear, including a bulletproof vest that was adorned with the Homeland Security Investigation logo.
“The agents fired a sound grenade, a flash bang grenade at the crowd,” said Pedrorios, director of the U.S. Mexican border program for the Quaker American Friends Service Commission.
Todd Lyons, the US Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told Fox News that agents were fulfilling their law enforcement obligations during the attack.
“We should be supported, not called Nazis, not villains,” he said.
The immigrant was arrested at a scheduled hearing
Earlier last week, ice agents were seen arresting immigrants in San Antonio, Texas, shortly after a court immigration hearing.
“Families are targeted at the most vulnerable times and are attending scheduled immigration hearings for what appears to be progressing in their case,” according to a statement from the Immigration Law Resource Center.
The statement links to a video that appears to show ice agents arresting their mother along with their four children in the courthouse.
Another video outside the same court was posted on Friday, May 30 by advocacy group Unidos Podemos, showing an emotional scene of two mothers and a child loaded into a small room in a vehicle equipped to carry prisoners.
The child stood on the bumper, his arms extended. He says in Spanish, “It’s okay, mama, I’m here. It’s okay.”
ICE announces criminal arrests during crackdown
ICE, with a large social media presence, has largely refrained from sharing emotional or confusing arrest videos, instead posting mugshots of migrants who have been arrested with serious criminal history.
The agency has released the recent arrests of a Honduras man facing robbery and sexual fire, a convicted sex offender from El Salvador, a Venezuelan woman convicted of a felony in California and hoping to file other charges in New York.
