Kamal Ghorui
ICE agents reportedly laughed at a teenager who took life-saving medication to his 58-year-old father at a detention facility after the man was arrested while working at McDonald’s outside Minneapolis and later detained at a nearby facility.A video circulating on social media shows ICE agents arresting an old man and later during an interview with MS NOW, the teenager said that they laughed on him when he marched in the building with medicines as his father is a heart patient.The teenager, identified as Anthony, told MS NOW that he went to the facility because his father suffered from heart failure. He said, “I gave an ICE agent my dad’s medicine, but I’m not sure if he got it because the ice agent just smirked at me,” adding, “he laughed in my face.”Anthony also said, “I feel heartbroken, I feel alone. I just wish my dad would come home so he can be with my mom and my mom can stop crying at night,” he added.The report said Anthony later returned to the facility with lawyers and medical professionals and refused to leave until ICE agents gave him their word that the medication would be given to his father.The Trump Administration has consistently claimed that it only detains the worst kinds of people during these ICE raids, but that has been proven to be completely false. On November 30, data from Trac Reports showed 48,377 out of 65,735, or 73.6% held in ICE detention had no criminal convictions. The Cato Institute also noted that just 5% of those detained had violent convictions.The report said backlash against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, once limited to political activists and supporters, spread across American culture, including business, sports and entertainment.Bruce Springsteen released a new anti-ICE song on Wednesday, criticising “Trump’s federal thugs.”OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told his staff that “what’s happening with ICE is going too far,” referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart posted to her 2.9 million Instagram followers this week that “we can be attacked and even killed.“Things must and have to change quickly and peacefully,” Stewart posted.The Trump administration responded to public outcry over ICE and softened its approach, though many might say it was too little, too late.On Wednesday, it was announced that the officers involved in the shooting of VA nurse Alex Pretti were put on leave. At the same time, border patrol commander Greg Bovino was also told to leave the city of Minneapolis, where Pretti was killed.
