Civilians impersonating ICE agents to detain migrants are on the rise

It was almost three in the morning. In a small town called Indiantown, southeastern Florida, two Latino migrants were in a van on their way to work when a man approached them in a gray van. The subject, wearing pajamas pants, a hat upside down, a sweatshirt and a gold chain, claimed to be an agent of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) and demanded that the two men show him their identification. The alleged immigration agent also d…

A man was arrested in Martin County after posing as an ICE agent and stopping a van in which two men were travelling. And all while wearing his pants in his pajamas. José Juan López, 23, was arrested last Thursday at 3 a.m. after, according to the authorities, he stopped two men driving a van and called 911. “When they called us, they said they were running away from someone who had arrested them and who claimed to be an ICE agent and demanded i…