"I was on the phone, and something told me to look up, when I just seen this white truck approaching my car, and it looked like coming directly to me, where I'm like, oh, my God, did they lose control? Like, he's going to hit my car. And I just seen these two men get off from the front pointing their guns at me and my son, like, actually at our car."
"I had my window a little bit down. They just came one from my side, the other one from my son's side, and they just opened our doors. They took me out. They took my son out. All I remember me telling my son is like: "Don't make any movement. Just follow instructions," just because, in my mind, I'm like, OK, they're pointing guns. If they see my son trying to reach for something, I don't know if they're going to shoot."
Federal immigration enforcement intensified operations and detained more than 170 U.S. citizens during the first nine months of the crackdown. A 15-year-old boy with disabilities was handcuffed outside a Los Angeles high school after agents mistakenly identified him as a suspect while he waited in a car with his mother. The family filed a lawsuit alleging racial profiling, false arrest and assault. Federal officials denied wrongdoing and described the incident as part of a targeted operation. The mother recounts agents in a white truck pointing guns, forcibly removing both of them and warning her son not to move.
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