Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street.
The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.
“They asked us if we have papers. I said I do but I don’t have them on me,” Cruz, a 60-year old man with heart problems originally from El Salvador, recalled in Spanish.
The agents stood Cruz up, put him in their truck, drove around in circles, and asked questions, he said.
They could have driven him to his house so he could retrieve those papers or have someone bring them out for him. Boom, crisis averted. It’s not hard to not be a time-wasting asshole, but they seem to excel at it.
Sure. But this is a heck of a lot better than beating him up, arresting and deporting. Keep the pressure on them.
Lets not set the precedent that you should ever get in a car of someone claiming to be an ICE agent.