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BREAKING🚨 Newly released Baltimore police body camera video shows an officer telling terrified school staff that ICE isn't allowed on school property, then adding that in this political era "they do what they want and there's no repercussions."

The footage was recorded June 11 outside Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School in East Baltimore, where ICE agents pinned Jesus Acevedo Sanchez face down in the driveway leading to the school bus loop while his daughter leaned out of a car window, crying. A speech therapist at the school called police. She told the officers she watched agents drag him out of the vehicle and abuse him.

Officer Parris Harley got there first and told her Baltimore police don't usually get involved in ICE incidents. "Our policies and the guidelines and laws we abide by, it seems like they operate totally different," he said. His supervisor, Lieutenant Dixon, arrived minutes later and said ICE is "not supposed to be on school property, hospitals or courtrooms." Dixon told her she could have school police reach out to ICE supervisors, "but it's not going to do any good, to be honest with you."

Acevedo Sanchez and his partner, Adriana Gavilan Sanchez, were dropping off their daughter. Their attorneys say the couple left a Dunkin' Donuts just after 7 a.m. with their kids in the SUV, noticed a car following them, and were cut off near Dundalk Avenue. Men in all black got out with guns drawn and one broke the driver's side window. He drove to the school because he knew officers would be there.

ICE says he "refused lawful commands, violently resisted arrest" and dragged an officer with his vehicle. DHS also initially claimed Gavilan Sanchez punched officers. An affidavit later said there was "minimal physical resistance."

Both parents spent more than a month in immigration detention.

Federal Judge Julie Rubin called the case a "stomach churner," found ICE had NO PROBABLE CAUSE, and said the agents initially "did not wear any item that identified themselves."

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My name is Maryam Tahmasebi, and I am a professor of psychology and statistics at Los Angeles Pierce College—or, I was, until April 9, when my life, and my family’s lives, changed forever. On that day, I was teaching a class when my son texted me, saying that my husband hadn’t picked him up from school and wasn’t answering his phone, which is very unlike him. I picked my son up from school, came frantically back home, and called the police, thinking that something horrible must have happened to him. Even so, it never occurred to me that he could have been detained by ICE. We are legal permanent residents with valid green cards. My husband, Eissa Hashemi, is also a professor, and has dedicated his life to mentoring PhD students in the Business Psychology department of The Chicago School. The government had decided to punish my husband for being the son of a woman who was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before Eissa was even born.

My son and I have spent over 120 days in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, away from my husband, who was taken to the South Texas Detention Center in Pearsall, Texas. We have been put through hell for the past four months, and our physical and mental health have deteriorated in ways that might not be reversible for years. We are only allowed to speak with my husband for 10 minutes every two weeks, under supervision.

We are in tremendous pain and have been trapped in an unendurable, unending nightmare. I want my son to have a normal life, not spend his days in this awful detention center in Dilley. No child deserves this. No human deserves this. We are asking anyone with a conscience to help us end this nightmare. There are more things I want to say, but this is the shackled version of what I feel safe saying right now. I will end on this: If this could happen to us, a law-abiding family of two professors and a young boy, it can happen to anyone. Read more from Maryam Tahmasebi: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/maryam-tahmasebi-iran-ice-essay/
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The immigration goons dramatically escalated a confrontation even though their lives were not in danger.

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