By Cora Currier
On Friday, after Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents arrested a longtime U.S. resident protesting against
ICE in San Antonio, Texas, the FBI stepped in for an interrogation,
telling the resident, 18-year-old Sergio Salazar, that his immigration
status had been revoked because he was a “bad person.” The FBI agents
asked him to inform on fellow protesters and said if he did so it could
help his immigration case.
“It seems evident that he was targeted here because
of his involvement in the anti-ICE protests,” said Jonathan Ryan,
Salazar’s lawyer from RAICES Texas, an immigrant advocacy group. “We’re
very concerned about how directed and targeted and aggressive and quick
this was.” ICE has been criticized for recent detentions and
deportations of other activists, but little else has emerged that
indicates an FBI interest in anti-ICE protests.
Salazar, an aspiring filmmaker who came to the U.S. when he was two, was quoted
extensively in the San Antonio Express-News in late July under his
nickname “Mapache,” saying that his group planned to remain in its
encampment in front of an ICE processing facility until “ICE no longer
operates in San Antonio.” He was arrested as he stepped away from the
encampment a few days later.
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Source: The Intercept_
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