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ICE Agents in Oregon Violently Abduct 17-Year-Old High School Student on Lunch Break

HeadlineNov 24, 2025

In Oregon, federal immigration agents forced a 17-year-old high school student from his vehicle and abducted him as the teen took a lunch break on Friday. Video shows masked ICE agents smashed the driver’s side window of a car being driven by Christian Jimenez, a senior at McMinnville High School, who told them he was a U.S. citizen, to which an agent replied “get out of the car” and “I don’t care.” Jimenez’s brother says the teen was racially profiled and injured by shattered glass. He was taken to an ICE facility in Portland and released later that day. He’s been charged with “interference or obstruction of an investigation.”

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