The 23-year-old was pulled out of the van, placed in handcuffs, and detained for about 25 minutes while the agent searched him. When the agents finally found his ID confirming his citizenship, the agents let him go — without offering any explanation or apology.

A 23-year-old electrician from Brentwood is speaking out after a disturbing encounter with federal immigration agents left him handcuffed and shaken, despite being a U.S. citizen.

Elzon Lemus says he was on the job, driving in a work van with his co-worker in Westbury when they were pulled over by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The incident was recorded on Lemus’ phone.

“What’s up, guys? Can I see your ID, please?” an agent asks in the video.

When Lemus questions why they’re being stopped, the agent replies vaguely, "Cause you look like someone I’m looking for. Can I see your ID?"

Lemus continues, “Who are you looking for exactly? Because it’s definitely not me.”

The agent then warns him, “This is going to go one of two ways here. I need to see your ID — if you’re not the guy I’m looking for, you’re not the guy I’m looking for. But we need your ID.”

When Lemus continues to question why he’s being stopped the agent escalates and says "If we don’t get your ID we are going to need to figure out another way to ID you and that may not work out well for you."

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[–] 235 points 1 year ago (13 children)

"You look like someone I'm looking for" seems to be a recurring quote from these guys.

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    Quotas for DEI initiatives bad: no merit for chosen employees

    Quotas for ICE good: no merit for those arrested in order to meet quota...

    I know I know, you don't logic a Magoo. There is none to be had...

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Lawsuit time and this one is legit.

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    [–] 65 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Papers, please!"

    No wait, they are not that polite...

    "Papers!"

    Wait, they didn't even lead with asking about his papers?

    Damn...

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Since when can ICE make traffic stops?

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    [–] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    “Papers, please” - just like Soviet Russia and the other Soviet-bloc countries.

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    [–] 48 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    No reasonable, articulable suspicion of crime? No ID.

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    ICE has been directly and illegally ordered to violate the fourth amendment and are doing it every day.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's a common theory that many of thr 1/6 rioters are now ICE members. So here is a list of the pardoned fucks. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-january-6-prisoners-released-2018097

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    [+] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They said he looked like a suspect. Cough cough.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    That’s not a reasonable suspicion of a crime.

    Maybe being the guy that maybe did a crime isn’t good enough.

    More to the point, being undocumented isn’t generally a crime- it’s a civil offense. The majority of people are either asylum seekers or people who’ve overstayed visas, rather than entering illegally.

    Entering illegally is a misdemeanor, but over staying is not.

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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    For the love of God, SUE!!!

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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Welcome to the Diapered States of America, papers please.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Family lives near Brentwood and I can absolutely see ICE thugs doing this to them.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Time to exercise the 2nd Ammendment

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    DO NOT PULL OVER FOR NAZIS

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    working as designed

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    When they say that, you say, “Oh, you must be looking for the guy with the big dick. You found me.”

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