ALBAWABA - The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently sparked outrage after detaining a 17-year-old Target employee in Richfield, Minnesota.
The 17-year-old was identified as Jonathan Aguilar Garcia, and videos of the arrest flooded social media, with many users condemning the act.
Several other reports on X (formerly Twitter) claimed that Garcia was then reportedly dropped off eight minutes away from his workplace near a Walmart and was left bleeding and crying, as stated by California Rep. Jimmy Gomez.
Gomez wrote on social media, "This is barbaric. In Minneapolis, MN, 17-year-old Target employee Jonathan Aguilar Garcia, a U.S. citizen, was taken by CBP while on the job because they assumed he was an immigrant."
Who is Jonathan Garcia? ICE violently detains 17-year-old Target employee
He added, "He was later dumped at a nearby Walmart parking lot crying and bleeding when they realized he really was a citizen."
According to the Wall Street Journal, ICE arrested another Target employee aside from Garcia, who was identified as Christian Miranda Romano. One of them shouted as they were being escorted into a van, "I’m literally a US citizen."
Several social media posts stated that ICE reportedly targeted Garcia because he looked like an immigrant, despite being "a law-abiding US citizen," who works at Target in Richfield.
However, the Department of Homeland Security said that one of the individuals in the video was "arrested for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer."
