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ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines

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Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go. Telemundo reports that agents pepper-sprayed the teenagers because they were allegedly filming ICE arresting parents outside of Santos Livas Elementary School in Alamo, Texas. ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen, but was told, “I don’t give a damn.... Your parents can’t help you now.” ICE brutally detain 2 U.S. citizen teens—driving to hand in papers to join Marines. Now changing their minds about enlisting. "How can I serve a country that doesn't even uphold my basic rights?" Agents shot them with pepper spray—then punched them in the face. Just because… pic.twitter.com/C0JQ7G3P4