New Haven Independent · Hidalgo, TX
Video Shows Downtown ICE Arrest
A car traveling south on State Street approaches Court Street as three unmarked vehicles — one with law-enforcement lights flashing — box it in, forcing the car to stop and blocking a lane of traffic. Four federal immigration agents emerge. They’re all wearing vests. At least one is wearing a face mask. Another unmarked car and more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents soon show up. Eventually, the ICE agents open the car’s rear driver’s side door and pull out the man they had been looking for — 18-year-old New Havener Jaime Diaz-Perez. They secure his hands behind his back while he’s on the ground. Another man, Diaz-Perez’s father, opens the front passenger’s side door and steps out of the car, only to be pushed back inside by an ICE agent. The ICE agents walk Diaz-Perez over to one of the unmarked vehicles. They put him in the back seat and drive away, leaving the car they had stopped behind. All of this plays out in less than three minutes.