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Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner, was arrested by ICE with her green card in her pocket
The moment 19-year-old Emely Agustin spotted the group of masked immigration agents tackling a woman facedown on the pavement, her heart dropped.
She saw the woman’s red jacket.
“Oh my fucking God. That’s my mom!” she screamed.
It was the morning of 5 November in Cottage Grove, in central
Oregon, and masked officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had dragged Juanita Avila out of her van. The agents pinned her down as she cried out for her daughter, who started filming. Juanita, a 47-year-old legal permanent resident, had her green card in her pocket, but officers handcuffed and detained her.
“I was really scared. I couldn’t stop shaking,” Emely recalled in a recent interview.
“It was like they were trying to kidnap me,” added Juanita.
The mother and daughter were speaking out for the first time since Juanita’s arrest became part of a court case that secured a
major victory for immigrants’ rights in Oregon. The
lawsuit challenged ICE’s tactic of detaining people without warrants or probable cause, a practice advocates say has fueled widespread
racial profiling and
chaotic arrests.
Last month, a federal judge sided with the plaintiffs and issued a
preliminary injunction blocking ICE agents in Oregon from continuing their “arrest first, justify later” tactics, as lawyers
labeled it. The judge
said ICE’s conduct had been “brutal and violent”, saying agents’ arrest strategy “systematically violates federal law and individual constitutional rights”.
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