Conservatives claimed that they were concerned about immigrants who are undocumented. Still, they’ve moved on from that, and now Trump’s mass deportation efforts are disappearing people from the streets without due process — even U.S. citizens are targeted. U.S.-born citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed while at a job site in Foley, Alabama.
Noticias Telemundo aired the arrest, showing authorities grabbing Venegas, 25, while someone off-camera can be heard yelling, “He’s a citizen.”
NBC News reports:
Garcia told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him. REAL ID is the identification U.S. citizens are required by law to have in order to travel through airports and enter federal buildings. It is considered a higher security form of identification.
“Apparently a REAL ID is not valid anymore. He has a REAL ID,” his cousin Shelah Venegas said. “We all made sure we have the REAL ID and went through the protocols the administration is asking for. … He has his REAL ID and then they see him and I guess because his English isn’t fluent and/or because he’s brown it’s fake, it’s not real.
