People Are Impersonating ICE Agents To Harass Immigrants And Commit Crimes, Police Say

LOADING ERROR LOADING Multiple police departments across the U.S. have recently arrested suspects who allegedly impersonated ICE agents and appeared to be using President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies to intimidate immigrants or further their own criminal activities. You’re going back to Mexico!” One of the men can be heard speaking Spanish over the phone before Johnson interrupts to say, “Now don’t be speaking that pig-Latin in my fucking country!” Police arrived to a report of a traffic violation and encountered Johnson, who allegedly told them the men in the landscaping truck he was harassing were Mexican and did not have a valid driver’s license, according to a heavily redacted arrest warrant obtained by HuffPost. On Saturday, Johnson’s family said in court he faces mental health challenges and that “he needs help and he needs to continue to get that therapy,” ABC affiliate WCIV reported. And we ask the authorities to prosecute illegal actions sparked by racial prejudice or bias.” In North Carolina, Raleigh police arrested Carl Thomas Bennett, 37, who they said broke into a woman’s home and impersonated an ICE agent by displaying “a business card with a badge on it,” according to a magistrate order obtained by HuffPost.