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“No Uniforms, No Badge, No ID”: Shocking Surveillance Video Shows Plainclothes ICE Raid

HeadlineFeb 12, 2025

In Memphis, Tennessee, shocking new surveillance video shows four masked men in plainclothes hauling away restaurant workers in what city officials later confirmed was a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A social media account for restaurant owner TACOnganas Memphis posted the video online with the caption, “We don’t know if the men you see in the video work for ICE or for someone else. You’ll see they have no uniforms, do not show any badge or ID, and did not leave any identifying information or paperwork. If not for our security cameras, we would not even know this happened.”

This comes amid Trump’s mass deportation efforts and after prosecutors in at least three states have in recent weeks charged people with impersonating immigration law enforcement officers. The cases include a South Carolina man arrested for kidnapping a Latinx driver following a racist confrontation and a North Carolina man accused of using the false threat of deportation to extort sex.

Meanwhile, more than two dozen Christian and Jewish organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday seeking to prevent ICE agents from conducting raids at houses of worship. 

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