“Police! Don’t move! Hands up!”that was the order that several ICE agents shouted inside a Mexican immigrant home in Portland, Oregon. A young mother had the audacity to record everything that happened on video, evidencing the violent operation.
The images were broadcast in a Noticias Telemundo report and show the moment in which several uniformed officers enter armed and break the door of a room where they were Maricruz Magana and his brother.
In statements to the media, the young woman said that her brother, Napoleón Andrés Magaña, and her stepfather were detained, while she was unharmed because she had her baby in her arms. In the video you can hear the crying and the exact moment in which his brother surrenders to the officers, who violently restrain him.
He also recorded the damage that the agents caused inside the house, such as a broken door and discarded ornaments. “I was very scared, because of the way they were pointing at us I thought they were going to shoot us”Magana said.
The agents entered the house looking for “Israel”
The young mother noted that ICE agents broke into the house looking for a man named “Israel,” but no one knew him.
Faced with the unexpected situation, nerves led Maricruz and his brother to lock themselves in one of the rooms, but the uniformed officers broke the door. She was not detained, she alleges, only because she was holding her baby.
According to the Telemundo report, Napoleón Magaña has been in the asylum process since 2023, while his stepfather, Arturo García Cabrera, arrived in the United States in 2022.. “They have not committed any crime here, they have always behaved well,” said the young woman.
Ricki Ruiz, state representative from Gresham, Oregon, stated that the recording shows how ICE agents, by not finding the person they are looking for in an operation, end up arresting those who are not involved.
“Mr. Israel did not live there, but they took two people anyway, regardless of the fact that they had no order,” Ruiz noted. At the time of this publication, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had not commented on the case.
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