Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.'

118 perihelions 8 7/25/2025, 9:25:53 PM theguardian.com ↗

Comments (8)

1659447091 · 10h ago
> ... can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”

$30,000 bonus? There should be an equal fine for each US citizen rounded up in the gamified dragnet

It shouldn't surprise, but it does, at how little people are willing to sell themselves, their humanity and integrity out for.

"for it is you who know yourself, how much you are worth to yourself, and at what price you sell yourself; for men sell themselves at various prices." -https://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.1.one.html#105

Nasrudith · 9h ago
Reminds me of the calculations I saw about what the equivalent value of thirty pieces of silver would be. Interestingly one figure would be four months of skilled labor, and based upon that and an assumption of $75K came out to be $25K.
foldr · 2h ago
> Laynez-Ambrosio was charged with obstruction without violence and sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course.

You have to admire the sheer gall of this. Perhaps the masked thugs kidnapping US citizens would have more to gain from anger management training than this innocent teenager.

greenavocado · 11h ago
$30,000 bonus?!