George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and disabled Army veteran, was detained by ICE for three days and nights without charge after an arrest during a July raid on a Camarillo cannabis farm where he worked as a security guard. Retes encountered a checkpoint while driving to work; agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him, and dragged him from the vehicle, with officers placing knees on his neck and back. Retes was jailed without being informed of charges or allowed to call his family and missed his daughter's third birthday. Attorney Marie Miller is suing the federal government for constitutional and California law violations to seek precedent against similar detentions.
We end today's show looking at the Trump administration's mass immigration raids as federal agents round up thousands of people nationwide, including U.S. citizens. George Retes is a 25-year-old U.S. citizen, a disabled Army veteran, who's taking on the federal government after he was detained by ICE for three days and nights without charge, arrested during a raid in July on a cannabis farm in Camarillo, California, where he worked as a security guard.
They never let me call my family. They never told me what I was charged for. They just kind of threw me in there and didn't care, Retes tells Democracy Now! These are basic violations of George's federal constitutional rights and his rights under California law, says his attorney, Marie Miller, who is suing the government over what happened to Retes in the hopes of setting a precedent to stop the same thing from happening to others.
Retes was arrested during a raid in July at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, California, where he worked as a security guard. Retes was driving to work when he encountered a checkpoint, where agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him out of his vehicle for arrest. While he was jailed without charge, Retes missed his daughter's third birthday.
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