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Demovictory9

(36,887 posts)
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:24 PM Friday

teen US citizen secretly recorded ICE arrest: "You've got no rights" "Goddamn! Woo! Nice!" "$30,000 bonus"

Video footage of the incident captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men*, two of whom are undocumented. They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”

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Laynez-Ambrosio can also be heard telling officers: “I was born and raised right here.” Still, he was pushed to the ground and says that an officer aimed a stun gun at him. He was subsequently arrested and held in a cell at a CBP station for six hours.

Audio in the video catches the unidentified officers debriefing and appearing to make light of the stun gun use. “You’re funny, bro,” one officer can be overheard saying to another, followed by laughter.

Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

Later in the footage, the officers move on to general celebration – “Goddamn! Woo! Nice!” – and talk of the potential bonus they’ll be getting: “Just remember, you can smell that [inaudible] $30,000 bonus.” It is unclear what bonus they’re referring to. Donald Trump’s recent spending bill includes billions of additional dollars for Ice that could be spent on recruitment and retention tactics such as bonuses.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest

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teen US citizen secretly recorded ICE arrest: "You've got no rights" "Goddamn! Woo! Nice!" "$30,000 bonus" (Original Post) Demovictory9 Friday OP
Sick Solly Mack Friday #1
Yeah..one step from goosestepping in shiny black boots Demovictory9 Friday #2
They're already goosestepping in their minds. Solly Mack Friday #10
Posting this video from Nina Simone - it was about black folks in 60s, but is appropriate for today's ICE sh*t. iluvtennis Friday #25
Thank you. Solly Mack Friday #26
VIN exist on the visible dash of every vehicle including ICE NotHardly Saturday #49
F-ing animals. Disaffected Friday #3
Animals don't act like this . 1WorldHope Friday #4
Indeed! Animals also don't have the weakest and stupidest among them be their leader. OMGWTF Saturday #48
We need tribunals JustAnotherGen Friday #6
Something everyone here seems to forget: first, America has to lose a war right here Hekate Friday #9
We are about to lose ww3 Hornedfrog2000 Saturday #47
Our side has to win first JT45242 Friday #39
Kick JustAnotherGen Friday #5
Evil. mahina Friday #7
Cut the money for Social Security...Cut the Department of Education,,, chouchou Friday #8
The lawyers must be lining up outside this guy's door. Vinca Friday #11
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Friday #12
Go search ICE on reddit. They are having recruiting expos in every state. They are on round 2 of hitting every state Cheezoholic Friday #14
I read that ICEtopol are getting ... aggiesal Friday #23
Be safe, young Resistor Hekate Friday #13
you're bdamomma Friday #22
Abolish ICE. WhiskeyGrinder Friday #15
This is for the ladies -- Haggis 4 Breakfast Friday #16
Men can defend themselves with pepper spray too, and it's safer than carrying a gun FakeNoose Friday #32
Sorry if that was misunderstood. Haggis 4 Breakfast Wednesday #53
Fuck them all to hell. Bet most would claim they are Xtian. Evolve Dammit Friday #17
Thanks for the link Evolve Dammit Friday #18
" You got no rights." As I recall the Patriot Act eliminated all rights if you live within 100 miles of the border. spike jones Friday #19
Assaulting bdamomma Friday #20
This is on all of us.... and we need some good reporting and publication of the bounties promised and payed. Vthestate Friday #37
I've said in the past, that the ICEtopol are not agents, but bounty hunters ... aggiesal Friday #21
Is he dead Yet? red dog 1 Friday #24
We are going end up shooting some of them. Then one bragged about a $30,000 bonus. underpants Friday #27
I can only hope their karma catches them UpInArms Friday #28
F all ICE agents. Gimpyknee Friday #29
Who the hell is paying these goons?! sakabatou Friday #30
The US taxpayer, thanks to the omnibus bill that flooded the zone with cash for ICE muriel_volestrangler Friday #35
Nosferatu keeps saying he wants to deport 1 MILLION immigrants. Will there be $30,000 bonuses for each arrest? eppur_se_muova Friday #31
That won't even be a year's funding of ICE by the end of Trump's reign muriel_volestrangler Friday #36
I'm SHOCKED!!!!!!!! BurnDoubt Friday #33
"We're going to end up shooting some of them." Grins Friday #34
America Gestapo republianmushroom Friday #38
It's called TERRORISM. Pure and simple. If B.See Friday #40
"Some Of Them" DallasNE Friday #41
I saw a protest sign that said "I like my ICE crushed." ShazzieB Friday #42
Perfect. Thanks for sharing. mjvpi Saturday #50
No credit needed! 😁 ShazzieB Saturday #51
I HOPE we are hearing so much about "the worst of the worst" among ICE agents, Jack Valentino Friday #43
I guess that answers my question of when they get their Figarosmom Saturday #44
Here's the video - WARNING: Distressing Content: Rhiannon12866 Saturday #45
Thx for link Demovictory9 Wednesday #54
We need to know more about these 'bonuses' 70sEraVet Saturday #46
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Saturday #52
Thx uncle.joe Demovictory9 Wednesday #55

Solly Mack

(95,378 posts)
10. They're already goosestepping in their minds.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:52 PM
Friday

I'm disgusted that they will probably get away with it all.

iluvtennis

(21,318 posts)
25. Posting this video from Nina Simone - it was about black folks in 60s, but is appropriate for today's ICE sh*t.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:32 PM
Friday
&list=RDLJ25-U3jNWM&start_radio=1

NotHardly

(2,137 posts)
49. VIN exist on the visible dash of every vehicle including ICE
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:56 AM
Saturday
Take photos of the VIN plates ,/vehicle identification number, metal plate on the driver’s side…they are not as invisible as they think they are.

JustAnotherGen

(36,016 posts)
6. We need tribunals
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:36 PM
Friday

Nuremberg Trials were for the higher ups - and the military elite.

99% of the order takers got away with it.

Hekate

(98,699 posts)
9. Something everyone here seems to forget: first, America has to lose a war right here
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:51 PM
Friday

See, Germany lost WWII. That’s how the world got the Nuremberg Trials.

Hornedfrog2000

(436 posts)
47. We are about to lose ww3
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:02 AM
Saturday

That is what people dont understand. Just because there are no bombs or bullets, this is for our country.

JT45242

(3,517 posts)
39. Our side has to win first
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:38 PM
Friday

If they win there will be no trials (legitimate ones at least) for anyone.

The Nazis won't be charged.
And the resistance will get kangaroo courts or more likely just sent directly to the camps.

chouchou

(2,199 posts)
8. Cut the money for Social Security...Cut the Department of Education,,,
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:48 PM
Friday

Screw the United States Post Office...Cut the hurricane scientists. We don't need no shots for illnesses.
Just destroy all some great stuff..BUT..Give a pack of God Damn Hillbillies on a rampage their $30,000..
..for 2 hours work..Oh Yeah...

Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Cheezoholic

(3,156 posts)
14. Go search ICE on reddit. They are having recruiting expos in every state. They are on round 2 of hitting every state
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 03:27 PM
Friday

I don't know what their compensation packages are (I've heard an average of 30 bucks an hour) and there's no shortage of assholes wanting a legal right to beat the shit out of brown people or anybody they don't like. As far as I know it is illegal to offer bonus money to meet arrest quotas any officer of the federal government or any person in the military That is effectively putting bounties on people like we did during slavery and with native peoples. If it is going on it's a Human Rights atrocity that could be prosecuted at The Hague.

FF!!

aggiesal

(10,204 posts)
23. I read that ICEtopol are getting ...
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:22 PM
Friday

$45K signing bonus, plus $100K+ salary.

Someone on DU posted this info under the title something similar to "Don't tell me teachers can be paid more", followed by the ICEtopol statistics.

bdamomma

(68,906 posts)
22. you're
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:19 PM
Friday

correct Hekate, they even published his name. I hope this young man is still alive???

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,479 posts)
16. This is for the ladies --
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 03:34 PM
Friday

Start carrying pepper spray. It is legal. Have it at the ready. You have every right to defend yourself if men approach you wearing masks and dark glasses, no badges, insignia or ID on their clothing, grabbing, threatening, yelling obscenities of slurs at you.

At all times, keep your doors (at home or in your car) locked. Keep your windows rolled up. Do not answer your door if you are not expecting anyone. Have friends or family text you if they are coming to visit.

THERE ARE COPYCATS OUT THERE. PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO AFFILIATIONS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. PROTECT YOURSELF.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,479 posts)
53. Sorry if that was misunderstood.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 04:03 PM
Wednesday

Men are hard-wired to be more observant of their surroundings and less likely to ignore warning signs, whereas ladies, often preoccupied with children or something else may not realize that something is off. That's why I put that to the gals. Of course, men can use pepper spray.

spike jones

(1,922 posts)
19. " You got no rights." As I recall the Patriot Act eliminated all rights if you live within 100 miles of the border.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:01 PM
Friday

I believe that would be most of the US population.

bdamomma

(68,906 posts)
20. Assaulting
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:09 PM
Friday

and torturing people for fucking money, these Jan 6 insurrectionists need this to done to them!!!!

This is on all of us!!!!!

Vthestate

(30 posts)
37. This is on all of us.... and we need some good reporting and publication of the bounties promised and payed.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:44 PM
Friday

Believe Maxwell sent the birthday card/get out of jail, leverage....cause she has plenty more...dirt! The morals of the powerful have pretzel-ed .....law firms / universities / media conglomerates bow down to keep even a hairs breath of control....the deals are not worth the paper they are written on. the shock of citizens arrested by goon squads for hire...may actually wake some up!!!!

aggiesal

(10,204 posts)
21. I've said in the past, that the ICEtopol are not agents, but bounty hunters ...
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:17 PM
Friday

and that they're getting bonuses to meet #'s quotas.

As Bill Maher would say, "I don't know it as a fact, I just know that it's true."

red dog 1

(31,540 posts)
24. Is he dead Yet?
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:32 PM
Friday

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2025-07-25T18:15:18.518Z

underpants

(191,750 posts)
27. We are going end up shooting some of them. Then one bragged about a $30,000 bonus.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:37 PM
Friday

We are going end up shooting some of them. Then one bragged about a $30,000 bonus

One said they’d end up shooting some because they will start fighting.

A little later another said “Do you smell that $30,000 bonus?” others laughed.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,227 posts)
35. The US taxpayer, thanks to the omnibus bill that flooded the zone with cash for ICE
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:10 PM
Friday

A lot will go in corruption, pointless "consultancy" and so on, but tons will still go to the thugs on the streets snatching people.

eppur_se_muova

(39,550 posts)
31. Nosferatu keeps saying he wants to deport 1 MILLION immigrants. Will there be $30,000 bonuses for each arrest?
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 05:14 PM
Friday

Depending on whether that's per arrest action, per individual arrested, and whether it's divided among the arresting thugs, that sounds like somewhere between 10 and 90 BILLION DOLLARS.

Quick voter survey -- how many of you believe it's worth that much money ??

muriel_volestrangler

(104,227 posts)
36. That won't even be a year's funding of ICE by the end of Trump's reign
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:17 PM
Friday
The law increases the funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from $10 billion to more than $100 billion by 2029, making it the single most funded law enforcement agency in the federal government and more well funded than most countries' militaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act

Though I think "1 million immigrants" is well below what Miller wants. Trump said up to 20 million in his stump rants, and "the presence of 20 million illegal aliens and their children" has appeared in White House propaganda in the last few months.

BurnDoubt

(875 posts)
33. I'm SHOCKED!!!!!!!!
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 05:16 PM
Friday

This is a great way for Toxic Masculinity to get its exercise. I'm pretty sure they're screening for the "best" candidates... didn't pass the psych exam for the Police(?), step right this way. If this is what gives you a hard-on have we got a job for you.
I'm just spit-balling here, but I don't think I'm missing the mark by much.
Deplorable.
This is gonna leave a mark.

Grins

(8,667 posts)
34. "We're going to end up shooting some of them."
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 05:22 PM
Friday

And one day they - and others - will be shooting back! And then where will you be? And where will the rest of us be?

B.See

(5,980 posts)
40. It's called TERRORISM. Pure and simple. If
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:53 PM
Friday

people are being terrified, then it's terrorism, and the PERPS (those armed and in masks, as well as those behind desks) are TERRORISTS.

DallasNE

(7,833 posts)
41. "Some Of Them"
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:43 PM
Friday

That just reeks with disrespect. And loaded with racism when he addresses the American citizen as "you're amigo, brother". These officers need to be fired rather than for them to get a $30,000 bonus. It will take generations to recover from Trump and his perversion.

mjvpi

(1,730 posts)
50. Perfect. Thanks for sharing.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:22 PM
Saturday

I will steal that and forget to give you any credit, because I’m like that ☮️

ShazzieB

(21,219 posts)
51. No credit needed! 😁
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:52 PM
Saturday

I'm just reporting something I saw. I wish I could come up with cool sign ideas like that, but alas, that is not the case!

Jack Valentino

(2,890 posts)
43. I HOPE we are hearing so much about "the worst of the worst" among ICE agents,
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:33 PM
Friday

and that the majority are not being so brutal,
but the worst of the worst need to be taken down a peg or two or eighty-six


Well, they need to be FIRED, but that will never happen under THIS administration,
because they LIKE it

Even Republican Senators "pooh pooh" when American citizens
spend a few hours in jail, mistakenly (or not) caught up in their deportation dragnet


It's all about intimidation--- so if a few US citizens spend some hours in jail,
all the better to suppress the protests !!!!


Figarosmom

(7,276 posts)
44. I guess that answers my question of when they get their
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 01:42 AM
Saturday

Sign on bonus. It's not the amount of time. But numbers of bodies they bring in.

Rhiannon12866

(239,811 posts)
45. Here's the video - WARNING: Distressing Content:
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 05:24 AM
Saturday
U.S. citizen arrested by ICE after routine traffic stop as agents are accused of racial profiling. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132282667


70sEraVet

(4,703 posts)
46. We need to know more about these 'bonuses'
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 09:17 AM
Saturday

Does that '$30,000' mean they get a bonus of $10,000 per arrest (including the arrest of one US Citizen)?
News like that just MIGHT stick in the craw of MAGA voters who, while happy to see brown people being deported, aren't going to be happy seeing ridiculous amounts of government money being thrown around while they're having trouble putting food on the table.
AND, bonuses like that might cause some friction between local law enforcement and those federal goons! It would be nice to see a local cop pull some brown person over for a minor traffic infraction, and say "screw their bonus" and just write the guy a ticket and let him go.

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