Unimposing People Roughed Up by ICE and CBP

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7 Unimposing People Roughed Up by ICE and CBP
  • Martha Ruiz
    56-year old diabetic
    Green Card Applicant
    Gary, Indiana
    Nov 29, 2025
    56-year old diabetic Martha Ruiz, who has no criminal history and has lived in the U.S. since the 90s on a religious visa, had agents bang on her door and then immediately broke it down before she had time to answer.
    • Despite her telling them she had a hurt arm, agents forced it behind her back and handcuffed her on the ground.
    • One of their dogs obviously bit her repeatedly on her back and legs leaving bite wounds still noticeable two weeks later. When she yelled out in pain and out of a longtime fear of dogs, they dismissed her with "our dog doesn’t bite."
    • They then dragged her up the stairs and threw her on the ground fracturing her ribs which she did not receive any medical attention for until she was released two weeks later.
    • When she asked to use the bathroom, they refused.
    • She was transferred from a nearby ICE facility in Broadview, Chicago where she shared an overcrowded room with 170 people with only one window, a single open bathroom with no privacy and where some had to sleep on the floor.
    • She was then transferred to an El Paso, TX ICE facility much further away after a couple days where they finally treated just the pain from her injuries but only with a single injection.
    • She was finally taken to a women's shelter where people were kind and welcoming but obstinately felt the need to shackle her the entire trip all the way up until she walked in the door.
    • When finally released, her son had to fly all the way out to El Paso to bring her home where she was given an ankle monitor -- something they could have done very easily from the beginning.
  • Woman passively protesting
    Payne-Phalen neighborhood of St Paul, MN
    Nov 25, 2025
    A woman in a cane passively and peacefully protesting an ICE operation was pepper sprayed in the face at point blank range for an excessively long time after which she was pushed away until she fell to the ground overcome. This violated a federal court order governing its use according to a former officer and use-of-force expert.
  • Franci Stagi
    5-foot-2 petite retiree
    U.S. Citizen,Peaceful Protestor
    Durango, CO, ICE Facility
    Oct 29, 2025
    57-year-old peaceful protestor Franci Stagi had her phone grabbed or knocked out of her hand by an ICE agent she was filming. When she approached him to ask for her phone he snapped and grabbed her by the hair, lifted her off the ground in a chokehold and pushed her to the ground with two other agents despite being a petite 5-foot-2. The actions were egregious enough for the local police chief to open an investigation into the agent's actions.
  • Quinn Haberl
    Blind peaceful protestor
    Peaceful Protestor
    Portland, OR
    Oct 22, 2025
    Quinn Haberl,a 4-foot-6 blind man sitting outside an ICE facility peacefully protesting and clearly not impeding whatsoever, was grabbed, dragged and dropped on his head, had foot pressed on his back and neck and was cuffed for an hour before taken to the hospital with lots of bruising. Agents referred to Portland as a warzone unironically during the excessively violent arrest.
  • Evelyn & two friends
    Chicago students
    U.S. Citizens
    Chicago
    Oct 11, 2025
    A petite 18-year-old Chicagoan woman and legal U.S. resident was violently thrown to the ground and kneed in the neck by a masked ICE agent more than twice her size. He did this despite her yelling out "I'm not resisting" and having three vehicles of agents as backup. She and her two friends were subsequently detained for hours without being able to call their parents knowing where they were until they were released without charges. The ICE agents apparently were unhappy the group was filming them earlier to hold them accountable-- obstinately for completely and utterly egregious acts exactly like this. After the incident became public, DHS propagandist Tricia McLaughlin smeared the 18-year-old woman as a criminal and laughably claimed the quite obviously federal immigration officers were Chicago PD instead.
  • Kat Abughazaleh
    Congressional candidate
    Peaceful Protestor
    Sep 19, 2025
    Congressional candidate and peaceful protestor Kat Abughazaleh was violently carried and thrown to the pavement by an ICE agent much larger than her where she landed on her side with a loud thud
  • A middle-aged woman protestor
    Sep 19, 2025
    A middle-aged woman protestor who was clearly and obviously not a physical threat to ICE was thrown to the ground in an egregiously excessive use of force which they escalated so badly fellow agents had to intervene to stop one of their own from choking her.