Ice arrests of veterans and their relatives on the rise

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1. Families of military members aren't safe from deportation crackdown

June 25, 2025, 5:11 PM EDT
By Chris Hayes

... Every day, we are seeing stories of immigration enforcement that truly shock the conscience, as armed, masked agents rolling up to regular folks who have not been convicted or even accused of serious crimes— folks who, in many cases, are just trying to do their jobs. Often, these unidentified agents detain them as onlookers cry out for them to stop.

One recent example from the city of Santa Ana, California, involved a landscaper named Narciso Barranco, an undocumented man with no criminal record who has lived and worked in the U.S. for decades. He has three sons, all of whom are either active-duty or veterans of the Marine Corps.

Over the weekend, Barranco was doing what he does every Saturday: working. Video of the encounter shows Barranco being approached by armed, unidentified masked men while he was cutting the grass at an IHOP restaurant. Frightened, Barranco fled, still holding his weed-whacker. The agents then caught up with him, sprayed him in the face with something, wrestled him to the ground and started beating him.

The Department of Homeland Security alleges Barranco assaulted agents with his weed-whacker, but eyewitnesses, including the manager of that IHOP, say that’s not what they saw. “He was protecting himself,” Guilermo Villarreal told KNBC, the local NBC News affiliate. “He’s not attacking [anybody]. They were beating him so hard.”

According to Barranco’s family, he is currently being detained in an L.A. detention center. One of Barranco’s sons spoke to KNBC about what his father experienced ...

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-ice-raids-california-marine-betrayed-rcna215053