A Colombian national is facing up to 20 years in prison after allegedly breaking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer’s nose during an attempted arrest in Roselle, New Jersey back in February during an enforcement operation.
The 27-year-old man, identified as Hector Villegas-Alvarez, was approached by ICE agents who had determined he was unlawfully present in the United States and subject to deportation.
According to an official statement by the New Jersey Attorney’s Office, Villegas-Alvarez exited his vehicle when ordered to do so but physically resisted arrest, locking his arms and tensing his body when officers attempted to apply handcuffs.
What I am reading is “Undocumented Immigrant manages to escape a lack of due process by simply throwing fists.”
They are going to be thrown in a prison and forgotten about regardless. What’s the threat of a few years of jail for fighting back when they won’t see the light of day if they submit anyway.
May as well go down swinging.
He gets to stay in the US, at least 🤷
And as terrible as for-profit American prisons are, it’s better than CECOT.
Anyone sent to El Salvador is never leaving according to their president. It’s surprising it took so long for the people being taken to figure out.
escape?
He’s now in the court system for assaulting an officer, instead of being spirited away to ICE detention and deported without ever seeing a judge.
Huh…
“I can tell you,” my colleague went on, “of a man in Leipzig, a judge. He was not a Nazi, except nominally, but he certainly wasn’t an anti-Nazi. He was just-a judge. In '42 or '43, early '43, I think it was, a Jew was tried before him in a case involving, but only incidentally, relations with an ‘Aryan’ woman. This was ‘race injury,’ something the Party was especially anxious to punish. In the case at bar, however, the judge had the power to convict the man of a ‘nonracial’ offense and send him to an ordinary prison for a very long term, thus saving him from Party ‘processing’ which would have meant concentration camp or, more probably, deportation and death. But the man was innocent of the ‘nonracial’ charge, in the judge’s opinion, and so, as an honorable judge, he acquitted him. Of course, the Party seized the Jew as soon as he left the courtroom.”
-They thought they were free, the Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, 1955
The existence of two parallel systems of criminal “justice,” where one blatantly acts at the whims of a maniacal regime, is definitely a sign of stability and freedom. Probably.
I mean his ICE issues don’t go away. He could spend 20 years in jail and THEN get deported.
Under (maybe) a different President. With a chance he’d end up safely back in his own country, not a Salvadoran death camp. I’d roll the dice.
20 years from now? I think the “maybe” is unnecessary regardless of whether the US ever has free elections again.
The good die young. The evil live long cruel lives.
given how many protected, legal residents, and outright citizens ICE has already picked up without care or concern… I would argue ICE determinations are woefully and legally inadequate for any action, and thus violent resistance to abduction is not only the natural, moral reaction… its the legal one.
This is the message everyone is understanding, especially if you’re poor and desperate.
If immigration officials approach you … you’re basically fighting for your life, so do everything to break free, run, and get away. Because if you don’t, your life is over anyway.
These ICE motherfuckers are running around wearing balaclavas and body armor. They show no paperwork and are aggressive to no end. They’re basically glorified bounty hunters. There should be no repercussions for violence against them when they initiate it. I’d fuck one up as best as I could too. If they’re handing out 20 year sentences for that, I may as well shoot to kill.
They are terrorists and human trafficers not bounty hunters.
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the correct word is a snout
Good for him, fuck these people. Not so good for him. Is the jail time. But what’s the difference at this point?
Probably won’t be tortured here. Might be pardoned by the next administration if his story gets enough publicity and his family can keep the attention on him.
Assuming there is a next administration
So let me get this straight. A dude with no record and a judge order to prevent deportation, who didn’t resist law enforcement during his kidnapping, gets whisked away to a torture prison without pause, but a dude breaks a pig’s nose and gets to remain in the States? What incentive is there NOT to go down with the most violence you can against the abductors? When tRump is finally removed from power, hopefully with a hanging for treason, I hope the next president pardons people like Hector Villegas-Alvarez.
if you try to haul someone away, in America, with the intent of deporting that someone to an extrajudicial foreign hellhole for the rest of their lives, you should count yourself incredibly lucky you simply had to take them kicking and screaming.
Are you mentioning this because of gun ownership in the U.S.? Not many people carry guns every day. Even if they do, they’re not likely to draw their five-shot .38 special against a group of ICE agents in body armor.
I would’ve done the same thing. When death camps are on the table, you fight as hard as you can.
They are scared and think that harsh sentences will prevent them from getting their deserved punishments.
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Yah if he’s headed to El Salvador then he was never coming home to begin with. Land of the free, home of the brave huh.
Piggies have a weak spot on their noses. Got it.
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At least they’ll probably get some due process now.
ACAB
Damn if that’s the punishment for hurting their poor little nosies might as well kill them.
Who are these ICE agents anyway? Asking as a foreigner. Do they have the same authority as police? Are they police? If you refuse or stop them is that obstruction of justice/resisting?
Yes, they are federal police with broader authority because they enforce immigration policy. Just like immigration officers in any other country when you go through an airport. Anywhere within 100 miles of a port of entry (airports, boarders, ports) they can search and detain people. They started hiring double the amount of officers the day Trump won. Most of these people doing this crap are probably fresh recruits who got kicked out of police departments or coudn’t get hired in the first place. Basically party loyalists aka brownshirts.
So they are probably mostly people who hate immigrant/colored people and want to be able to do so professionally?
Always have been, but much less professional candidates now than before. They also do customs inspections for packages, containers, trucks, etc. Those people are probably just in it for a job, since they’re checking for drugs and other contraband.
They are technically “police”, but they get to do away with all the boring things that police normally have to do.
Some of them still work at the border doing customs work. Others are now fully dedicated to arresting and deporting people whose residency status is not OK.
