When immigration agents pulled U.S. citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas from his car this month and shackled him, he wasn’t surprised. He wasn’t scared.
He was tired.
As ProPublica detailed last fall, he had already been detained twice before.
A year ago, Garcia Venegas was filming his brother’s arrest during a raid on their coastal Alabama construction site when he was tackled by agents, who ignored ...
The repeated detentions experienced by Garcia Venegas and the subsequent conflicting institutional narratives reveal a structural tension between immigration enforcement priorities and constitutional rights for citizens. The existence of "Kavanaugh stops"—stops based on perceived ethnicity, job, or language—suggests an operational vulnerability where immigration enforcement practices intersect with demographic profiling, regardless of official denials. This pattern is not merely about mistaken i...
