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Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Daily Mail
Brutal arrest of illegal migrant in California is caught on camera as his three Marine sons beg ICE for mercy
A father-of-three was violently beaten and forced into the back on an unmarked car during an apparent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid, video reveals. Narciso Barranco, 48, was detained by suspected federal agents in a violent take down outside his workplace in Orange County, southern California on Saturday. At least seven masked men, armed and wearing US Border Patrol vests, tackled Barranco to the ground and punched him in his face repeatedly in a parking lot. He screamed out in apparent pain as the agents continued to hit him while has was face down on the pavement and placed him in handcuffs, horrifying footage captured by a bystander shows. Barranco was then thrusted into the back of an unmarked car by an agent apparently wielding a baton as he yelled out in resistance. He was also pepper-sprayed during the arrest, his son Alejandro Barranco, 25, told The Los Angeles Times - although the video, which went viral after being shared by Instagram account @SantaAnaProblems, does not depict that moment. Alejandro, a US Marine who served in Afghanistan, says his father is currently being held in a detention facility in Los Angeles. Barranco's other two sons are also in the military. Alejandro alleges Barranco's shoulder was dislocated during that violent incident and as of Sunday evening, more than 24 hours after his arrest, had not received medical treatment, food or water. Barranco was picked up by the agents while working his landscaping job at the IHOP in Tustin, roughly 35 miles south of Los Angeles. Restaurant manager Guillermo Villareal told FOX 11 how Barranco was trimming the bushes and 'then all of a sudden, these men in masks went after him'. Witnesses claim the masked agents approached him outside the restaurant, but Barranco panicked and started to run off, the TV station reports. He was then tackled, struck multiple times and detained, as seen in the video. Alejandro says he only learned about his father's arrest after the video was sent to him by people who saw it online. He admits that his father is 'undocumented' after arriving in the US from Mexico during the 1990s to make a better life for himself, but says he has 'no criminal record'. The veteran added that Barranco 'sounded scared' and 'like he was crying' when he finally spoke to him on Sunday. He says that despite his injuries, his father seemed more concerned about his job than his health condition, the LA Times reports. Barranco reportedly told his son where he parked his truck, stored his equipment and asked him to complete the job he started before the arrest. Alejandro and his two younger brothers, who also Marines and currently stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, are outraged by the incident. 'I love what I did, and I love serving my country. I think my brothers do as well, and it just infuriates us that our own country is doing this to our own people,' he told FOX 11. 'What we fight for is justice, and we need a better pathway to fix all of this.' In a separate interview with The Orange County Register, Alejandro even went as far as to say he felt 'betrayed' by his country. 'He wasn't doing anything bad. He was just working. The way they attacked him, I don't think it's right,' he told the newspaper. The family is trying to stop Barranco from being deported and have created a GoFundMe campaign to help fund his legal expenses. 'He is a good, hard working man. He has raised his family here and has established himself here. What we ALL saw today was disgusting and heart wrenching,' the crowdfunding page states. As of Monday morning, more than 2,000 people had contributed to the campaign - which has already amassed more than $68,000. Alejandro, meanwhile, remains optimistic about his father's case and believes his story is 'going to reach the right people' and 'there's going to be a change'. 'I hope it's soon, and I hope these type of situations don't happen again. We don't want to see any of our people getting beat,' he added.
The Independent
6 days ago
- The Independent
US citizen caught in ICE raid says arrest was worth it if others got away
A U.S. citizen who was violently arrested in a California ICE raid and detained for 24 hours said it was all worth it if an undocumented person was able to use that moment to flee. Job Garcia, a 37-year-old PhD student at Claremont Graduate University, was arrested during an ICE raid last Thursday at a Home Depot in Hollywood, ABC 7 reported. Video captured an ICE agent telling Garcia, who is a U.S. citizen, 'You want to go to jail? Fine, you got it.' Garcia recalled the horrifying moment he was placed into custody by the officer: 'The pressure of like, the knee on my back, and his hand on my neck, I thought like 'Is this it for me?'' Footage of the violent arrest, which came as ICE agents detained about 30 people at the store, quickly went viral. Before he was detained, Garcia and several other shoppers were yelling at the officers as they targeted a man in a truck by smashing his window. 'A split second after that is when he lunged at me. I was still recording, so he pushes me, puts both hands on me, and I pushed his hand off. And then, he didn't like that, so he grabbed my left hand,' Garcia said. Garcia said the officers seemed surprised when he told them he was a U.S. citizen, but they still decided to arrest him. He was first taken to a holding area at Dodger Stadium, where he overheard agents discussing how many people they'd grabbed. "Like, 'How many bodies did you guys get today?' And one of them said 31, and they started like, 'Yay! It was a good day today.' And they were like, high-fiving each other," Garcia said. Garcia said he also overheard officers talking about potential charges they could slap him with. 'At first it was assault of a federal agent, but only later, the narrative started switching because the video was out,' Garcia said. Some 24 hours later, Garcia was finally released. Despite the circumstances, he told ABC 7 it would have been well worth it if it gave undocumented migrants a window of opportunity to flee and find their families. 'However long period that was, if an undocumented person ran away and got away and got to get to his family, and got to get to his pregnant wife, then I'm OK with that,' he said. It was not immediately clear whether Garcia would be charged with any crime, although he told ABC 7 he plans to take legal action for the violation of his civil rights. Anti-ICE demonstrations have spread across the U.S. after taking off in California earlier this month following raids of workplaces. The number of people without a criminal record being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and held in detention has jumped 800 percent since January, as officials face pressure to boost numbers, according to reports. This uptick has resulted in 51,302 people being imprisoned in ICE centers as of the start of June, marking the first time that detention centers held over 50,000 immigrants at once. Less than a third of those detained are convicted criminals, with the remainder pending criminal charges or arrested for non-criminal immigration offenses, such as overstaying a visa or unauthorized entry to the country. The latest data is from June 1, published by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Since January, when the Trump administration entered office, ICE has not published clear and official figures on arrests or deportations.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem attends ICE raid at Los Angeles County home
Editor's note: This article has been updated to include the intended target of the raid. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined federal immigration agents Thursday on a raid targeting a man with a criminal record at a Huntington Park, California, home, the agency said. The raid occurred Thursday morning when about a half-dozen vehicles carrying heavily armed, masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents converged on a home occupied by a 28-year-old pregnant mother of four. Sabrina Medina said she was in the shower around 6 a.m. when her brother-in-law first saw the menacing presence in front of the family's home. 'I was just terrified, I'm not going to lie to you,' Medina told KTLA's Rick Chambers. 'I was shaking. I was scared. I've never gone through anything like this.' Medina said she looked out the window and saw 10 men dressed in tactical military gear, all carrying rifles. 'I was like, 'Am I dreaming or is this real?'' she said. According to Medina, who is a U.S. citizen, the agents told her to exit her home with her children. Standing in the driveway, they showed her a warrant for her husband, listing his name as David Garcia. As she explained that her husband's name is Jorge and that he was not at the house, one of the agents was captured on an outdoor home surveillance camera turning the device away from what was transpiring. Cameras inside the home captured the heavily armed ICE agents going through the residence room by room, all while Noem, wearing a bulletproof vest and ballcap, watched from the street. DHS later posted on X that the target of the raid was 'an illegal alien from Mexico who had previously been deported. His criminal history includes drug trafficking and assault.' After hearing about the raid, L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn went to the Huntington Park neighborhood and spoke with some of Medina's neighbors. 'I'm very disappointed in this government right now and what they're doing,' she told KTLA. Four months pregnant with her fifth child, the Huntington Park mother said if her husband is deported, the family's future is bleak. 'I'm not going to be able to pay my rent when I have to pay it,' she explained. 'My husband is not here. I don't know if they're going to pick him up tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. It's sad.' ICE agents, along with Noem, eventually left the home empty-handed, and the children were allowed back inside. For now, the family is unsure what the coming days will bring, but Medina said if her husband is deported, she and her children will likely follow him back to Mexico. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Dozens of heavily armed ICE agents swarm popular L.A. County swap meet
With a Department of Homeland Security helicopter circling, several dozens of heavily armed, masked ICE agents dressed in military tactical gear raided one of the most popular swaps meets in Southern California, which caters to a predominantly Latino crowd, over the weekend. The incident, according to video of the event captured by photojournalists with unfolded Saturday at around 3:30 p.m. at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet at 13963 Alondra Blvd. KTLA's Carlos Saucedo reports that the sight of ICE agents sent many vendors and customers running, in attempt to escape the raid. An estimated 60 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen on the flea market grounds, which also houses a music venue. Some onlookers are seen filming the raid on their cellphones while federal authorities moved through the crowd. It's unclear if federal officials expected to detain a lot of individuals at the event, but despite their large numbers, only two people, a woman and a man, the latter who told an onlooker he's Colombian, were seen in handcuffs as they were escorted away. Other unconfirmed reports suggest that at least a handful of arrests were made. KTLA has reached out to DHS and is awaiting a response. 'ICE comes in and raids the whole place,' Aracely Lopez, a vendor at the open-air market, said. 'All the entrances were wide open. There was a helicopter circling the premises. They were dragging people out of the bathrooms. They went into all the spaces asking for everyone's identification.' U.S. Marshal wrongly detained by ICE agents in lobby of federal building Lopez lamented the raid, adding that these are all just hardworking people and that her grandmother and parents are afraid to come to work at the swap meet, which is their main source of income. 'They're scared to come to work,' she said. 'I don't think they're going to come for the next few months.' The Santa Fe Springs raid comes on the heels of raids in other areas of Los Angeles County. On June 11, ICE agents arrested a man at a Downey church, prompting an outcry from community and religious leaders. Just a day later, a Huntington Park family's home was raided by agents as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem looked on from the street. The target of the search, David Garcia, an undocumented man with a criminal record, according to ICE, was not home. His pregnant wife and four children all, U.S. citizens, were forced out of the house while armed agents searched the residence room by room. The ongoing ICE raids have prompted more than a week of protests throughout areas of L.A., particularly downtown, with the Los Angeles Police Department reporting some 561 arrests since anti-ICS demonstrations erupted on June 7. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Russia Today
15-06-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
US Republicans investigating California governor and LA mayor over riots
The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has begun an investigation into riots in California that have followed a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on illegal migrants. Committee members are accusing Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass of inaction and obstructing federal attempts to manage the unrest. The protests that erupted last week quickly devolved into riots, with participants torching police cars and US flags, blocking highways, and clashing with law enforcement officers. The latter have responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, with hundreds of arrests, as well as multiple injuries on both sides reported. The start of the probe was announced in a press release by the US House Oversight Committee on Friday. Chairman James Comer and Clay Higgins, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement, both Republicans, sent letters to Newsom and Bass, requesting that they hand over 'documents and communications' dated June 1, 2025 and later, relevant to the ongoing riots and the state authorities' response to them. The letters also accused the two Democrats of falsely claiming that 'state and local law enforcement had protests under control' and of 'falsely blaming' President Donald Trump 'for the actions of violent rioters.' Newsom previously sued the Trump administration over its decision to deploy the National Guard to California. On Thursday, a US district judge ruled the move illegal, only for a Court of Appeals to issue a temporary injunction against that ruling hours later. For now, the National Guard remains under Trump's control, and not that of the state authorities, until a hearing on Tuesday. Responding to the committee's request, Governor Newsom's press office said in a post on X on Saturday that the records requested 'will include some highly unusual communications from the White House.' 'We're good with transparency. Will the White House say the same?' the message added. In an acrimonious exchange throughout the week, Newsom described Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard as a 'step toward authoritarianism' and a 'serious breach of state sovereignty.' Trump, in turn, urged the 'grossly incompetent' California governor to 'get his act together' and to 'apologize… for the absolutely horrible job' he has allegedly done. The US president also suggested he would back a proposal by White House border czar Tom Homan to have Newsom arrested for allegedly obstructing federal immigration enforcement efforts.
