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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A Colombian national is facing up to 20 years in prison after allegedly breaking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer's nose during an attempted arrest in Roselle, New Jersey back in February during an enforcement operation.

The 27-year-old man, identified as Hector Villegas-Alvarez, was approached by ICE agents who had determined he was unlawfully present in the United States and subject to deportation.

According to an official statement by the New Jersey Attorney's Office, Villegas-Alvarez exited his vehicle when ordered to do so but physically resisted arrest, locking his arms and tensing his body when officers attempted to apply handcuffs.

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 62 points 10 months ago

What I am reading is "Undocumented Immigrant manages to escape a lack of due process by simply throwing fists."

[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

They are going to be thrown in a prison and forgotten about regardless. What's the threat of a few years of jail for fighting back when they won't see the light of day if they submit anyway.

May as well go down swinging.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 18 points 10 months ago

He gets to stay in the US, at least 🤷

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

And as terrible as for-profit American prisons are, it's better than CECOT.

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago

Anyone sent to El Salvador is never leaving according to their president. It's surprising it took so long for the people being taken to figure out.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago
[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

He's now in the court system for assaulting an officer, instead of being spirited away to ICE detention and deported without ever seeing a judge.

[-] Daggity@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

Huh…

"I can tell you," my colleague went on, "of a man in Leipzig, a judge. He was not a Nazi, except nominally, but he certainly wasn't an anti-Nazi. He was just-a judge. In '42 or '43, early '43, I think it was, a Jew was tried before him in a case involving, but only incidentally, relations with an 'Aryan' woman. This was 'race injury,' something the Party was especially anxious to punish. In the case at bar, however, the judge had the power to convict the man of a 'nonracial' offense and send him to an ordinary prison for a very long term, thus saving him from Party 'processing' which would have meant concentration camp or, more probably, deportation and death. But the man was innocent of the 'nonracial' charge, in the judge's opinion, and so, as an honorable judge, he acquitted him. Of course, the Party seized the Jew as soon as he left the courtroom."

-They thought they were free, the Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, 1955

[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The existence of two parallel systems of criminal "justice," where one blatantly acts at the whims of a maniacal regime, is definitely a sign of stability and freedom. Probably.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago

I mean his ICE issues don't go away. He could spend 20 years in jail and THEN get deported.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Under (maybe) a different President. With a chance he'd end up safely back in his own country, not a Salvadoran death camp. I'd roll the dice.

20 years from now? I think the “maybe” is unnecessary regardless of whether the US ever has free elections again.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

The good die young. The evil live long cruel lives.

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