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ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care'
Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for #immigrants’ rights
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/ice-arrest-oregon-shop-owner

from #TheGuardian
March 6, 2026

The moment 19-year-old Emely Agustin spotted the group of masked #immigration agents tackling a woman face down 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, #Oregon, and masked officers with #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 legal permanent resident, had her green card in her pocket, but officers handcuffed and detained her.

#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#deportations #USA #US #USpol #politics #protest #news

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’

Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

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Elshara Silverheart Mar 6

@Peter_Link Next time they do that, call the local cops the second they show up. They'll get tired of having to respond to incidents like this if enough people do it. These thugs got to either change their ways or be silenced and possibly rehabilitated by any means when they violate even the basic level of communication rights because they can. The best way to make this effective, isn't through violence in kind. It's through awareness.

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