In a declaration filed in federal court, Leo Garcia Venegas said he was parking in front of his house in Silverhill, Alabama, on the morning of May 2 when an unmarked SUV blocked him in. Venegas claimed that before he could hand his Alabama-issued REAL ID to the two federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who approached him, they pulled him out of the truck he was driving and handcuffed him.
What makes the incident extraordinary is that Venegas is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit challenging DHS’ immigration enforcement policies, and it was the third time he’s been handcuffed and detained by ICE agents. Venegas was detained twice in 2025 during raids on private construction sites where he was working, even though he had a REAL ID identifying him as a U.S. citizen.
I don’t think REAL ID can be used to explicitly identify you as a US citizen. But it can be used to identify you as a legal resident of some form (either a citizen or a permanent resident). So they should still be good enough.
But when have ICE agents in this administration ever cared about legality or proof of anything. Gotta make them quotas!
ICE doesn’t care about legality. My coworker was kidnapped by ICE and they held him and his brother for eight months. Their mother fought these brown shirts at every step to release them, but any legal document she and the lawyer presented was dismissed by ICE as being fake.
ICE = US SS.
No, they’re the brownshirts. They’ll be purged before the SS takes over.
The Proud Boys, 3 Percenters, etc, are the Brownshirts.
ICE was perfectly positioned to take over as the new SS, but they got a little too froggy a little too fast, and they got shut down. Now it’s doubtful that they’ll be able to ever rise to their previous power.
Some other government entity will have to become the new SS, but it’s already starting to come apart, and I doubt any agency could rise at this point. Todd Flinstone is trying to weaponize the DoJ, but the judges aren’t buying it, and if any of those cases ever manage to come in front of a jury, we are going to see a major discussion over jury nullification in this country.
MAGA has peaked, and they are already wilting. The Midterms are still going to a bloodbath, even with MAGA gerrymandering. That will be the Dem’s Normandy Invasion, the point where the MAGA downfall becomes inevitable, even to them. That’s when the fleas will be leaping off the Lame Duck’s ass, and running for cover.
You can beat the charge, but you can’t beat the ride. Or the 3 weeks in prison, or the bond, or the lawyer fees, or the lost job, or the inconvenience, etc.