A citizen of the United States who lives in North Virginia reconsider his support for President Donald Trump after a meeting in which he said he was fascinated by American immigration and customs enforcement agents.
Jensy Machado drove to work with two other men on Wednesday when he was stopped in Manassas not far from his house, He told Spanish -language news output Telemundo 44. The Outlet sister, NBC4 Washington, Covered the story In English.
Machado said his pick -up was surrounded by agents, one of whom walked with a gun in his hand and asked for a man of a man who had never heard before.
The agents were looking for a man Machado did not know, but they had claimed that he lived at Machado’s address, he said.
Machado was placed in handcuffs and grilled about his legal status, he told the news exit.
“I told him that I was an American citizen and he looked at his other partner like, you know, smiling, as if you said,” Can you believe this guy? ” Because he asked the other man, “Do you believe him?” “Machado said.
NBC4 verified that Machado is an American citizen. He was released after he had shown agents his driver’s license, he said. The two men who were with him were taken into custody, he told the outlet.
An ICE spokesperson confirmed in a statement sent to Huffpost that Machado was stopped by officers of the office on Wednesday.
“Ice met a person who corresponded to the description of the subject of an operation while performing a targeted enforcement action,” said the spokesperson. “Ice officers have called in the individual to verify his identity on the basis of a reasonable suspicion, including a similarity to the description of the target.”
The spokesperson added that officers “immediately” determined not to hold Machado after he confirmed that he was not the person they were looking for and was not “subject to removal”.
Machado has the experience of reconsidering Trump.
“I voted for the last elections of Trump,” Machado told Telemundo 44, adding that he believed that the administration would go behind “criminals”.
He did not think that immigration authorities focus on “every Spanish-looking” person or assume that “we are all illegal immigrants”. But now, he said, Ice Agents follow “Just Spanish people.”
Democratic Virginia Rep. Don Beyer shared the story of Machado on XIt says: “The man is a Trump voter, but says he is reconsidering his support after he was the target of Spanish.”
The Machado account comes in the midst of the Trump administration that is committed to a series of aggressive immigration enforcement policy. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Name on X Earlier this week she accompanied ice in raids in the Noord -Virginia area.
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In January, wrongly held a American veteran in New Jersey. The same month, Navajo Nation leaders issued their concern About reports of indigenous people who are questioned or detained by federal law enforcement on immigration status in Arizona and New Mexico.