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Masked Men in Border Patrol Vests Take California Father After Repeatedly Hitting Him

SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, JUN 23 – Narciso Barranco, detained by federal immigration agents, has no criminal record and is father to three U.S. Marines; a GoFundMe raised nearly $100,000 for his legal defense.

  • Narciso Barranco, a landscaper and father of three U.S. Marines, was violently detained by masked federal agents outside an IHOP in Santa Ana, California, on Saturday.
  • The arrest occurred amid an ongoing ICE workplace raid and was reportedly triggered after Barranco tried to evade law enforcement and swung a weed whacker at an agent's face.
  • Video footage widely circulated shows Barranco pinned to the ground, pepper sprayed, repeatedly punched by at least four officers, and forced into an unmarked car as bystanders protested.
  • Barranco’s son Alejandro, a Marine Corps veteran, said, “I feel betrayed. My dad has no criminal history,” and a GoFundMe campaign raised over $69,000 to support legal expenses.
  • The incident sparked local protests and criticism of ICE’s use of force and mask-wearing tactics, highlighting tensions over immigration enforcement in immigrant communities.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents beat and kidnapped Narciso Barranco, a Mexican resident of the United States for 31 years, who works as a gardener and is the father of three Marines, one of them a veteran of Afghanistan and two active. According to his relatives, Barranco was approached in Santa Ana, California, with no other foundation than his appearance, and a video that recorded the facts shows the murderous brutality of the…

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Father of three American soldiers. Gardener and working man with no criminal record at 31 years of age in the United States. For Donald Trump’s government, however, Narciso Barranco is first of all an undocumented, original sin in the present times. Barranco was arrested on the weekend in the city of Santa Ana by elements of the Border Patrol. Images of his brutal arrest, in which a group of armed agents are seen subjecting him to force and beat…

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