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Raw Story: Teen girl violently arrested for trying to stop mother's ICE 'kidnapping': witnesses [View all]
Raw Story - Teen girl violently arrested for trying to stop mother's ICE 'kidnapping': witnesses
Julia Conley, Common Dreams
May 9, 2025 2:27PM ET
Community members in Worcester, Massachusetts on Thursday got word that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal officers were in a residential neighborhood, and more than two dozen quickly came to the scene to stop the arrest of a woman who was being separated from her teenage daughter and infant grandchild.
They were met with force from not only the government agents but also local police.
ICE agents were reportedly waiting outside a home on Eureka Street to arrest a woman who is of Brazilian descent, and intercepted her, her 16-year-old daughter, the daughter's newborn baby, and another family member as they were about to get into a vehicle.
Calling the arrest "a federal kidnapping," local independent reporter Bill Shaner reported at Welcome to Hell World that he arrived on the scene with a video camera after ICE agents informed Worcester police on the city police scanner that they were being "surrounded," and found a harrowing scene:
"I park my car on the edge of the scene and all I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter's baby. Wordless screams.
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Julia Conley, Common Dreams
May 9, 2025 2:27PM ET
Community members in Worcester, Massachusetts on Thursday got word that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal officers were in a residential neighborhood, and more than two dozen quickly came to the scene to stop the arrest of a woman who was being separated from her teenage daughter and infant grandchild.
They were met with force from not only the government agents but also local police.
ICE agents were reportedly waiting outside a home on Eureka Street to arrest a woman who is of Brazilian descent, and intercepted her, her 16-year-old daughter, the daughter's newborn baby, and another family member as they were about to get into a vehicle.
Calling the arrest "a federal kidnapping," local independent reporter Bill Shaner reported at Welcome to Hell World that he arrived on the scene with a video camera after ICE agents informed Worcester police on the city police scanner that they were being "surrounded," and found a harrowing scene:
"I park my car on the edge of the scene and all I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter's baby. Wordless screams.
/snip
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