A South Carolina man who police say was seen in a “disturbing” video confronting a Latino man in a pickup truck and telling him he was going to be sent back to Mexico has been arrested on charges that include impersonating an ICE officer.
The arrest was followed by a similar case the next day at Temple University, where a 22-year-old man and two other people were accused of falsely identifying themselves as officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Philadelphia police said.
The cases come amid aggressive immigration enforcement by the Trump administration at the U.S.-Mexico border and major U.S. cities, creating an environment that a Latino civil rights group called dangerous.