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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsteen 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: Youve got no rights here. Youre 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. Youre funny, bro, one officer can be overheard saying to another, followed by laughter.
Another officer says, Theyre starting to resist more now, to which an officer replies: Were 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 theyll be getting: Just remember, you can smell that [inaudible] $30,000 bonus. It is unclear what bonus theyre referring to. Donald Trumps 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

Solly Mack
(95,378 posts)America goddamn.
Demovictory9
(36,887 posts)Solly Mack
(95,378 posts)I'm disgusted that they will probably get away with it all.
iluvtennis
(21,318 posts)Solly Mack
(95,378 posts)NotHardly
(2,137 posts)Disaffected
(5,785 posts)I wonder where the "Nuremberg" trials will be held this time??
1WorldHope
(1,485 posts)OMGWTF
(4,861 posts)JustAnotherGen
(36,016 posts)Nuremberg Trials were for the higher ups - and the military elite.
99% of the order takers
got away with it.
Hekate
(98,699 posts)See, Germany lost WWII. Thats how the world got the Nuremberg Trials.
Hornedfrog2000
(436 posts)That is what people dont understand. Just because there are no bombs or bullets, this is for our country.
JT45242
(3,517 posts)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.
JustAnotherGen
(36,016 posts)Don't look away.
It's here. It's now. It's happening NOW.
mahina
(19,947 posts)chouchou
(2,199 posts)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...
Vinca
(52,462 posts)Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)
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Cheezoholic
(3,156 posts)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)$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.
Hekate
(98,699 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:01 PM - Edit history (1)

correct Hekate, they even published his name. I hope this young man is still alive???
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,407 posts)Haggis 4 Breakfast
(1,479 posts)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.
FakeNoose
(38,048 posts)
Haggis 4 Breakfast
(1,479 posts)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.
Evolve Dammit
(21,119 posts)
Evolve Dammit
(21,119 posts)
spike jones
(1,922 posts)I believe that would be most of the US population.
bdamomma
(68,906 posts)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)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)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)Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: âYouâve got no rights.â He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2025-07-25T18:15:18.518Z
underpants
(191,750 posts)We are going end up shooting some of them. Then one bragged about a $30,000 bonus
One said theyd end up shooting some because they will start fighting.
A little later another said Do you smell that $30,000 bonus? others laughed.
UpInArms
(53,205 posts)Soon
Gimpyknee
(428 posts)sakabatou
(45,138 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(104,227 posts)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)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)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)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)And one day they - and others - will be shooting back! And then where will you be? And where will the rest of us be?
republianmushroom
(20,797 posts)B.See
(5,980 posts)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)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.
ShazzieB
(21,219 posts)I agree, and shit like this is why.
mjvpi
(1,730 posts)I will steal that and forget to give you any credit, because Im like that ☮️
ShazzieB
(21,219 posts)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)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)Sign on bonus. It's not the amount of time. But numbers of bodies they bring in.
Rhiannon12866
(239,811 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/132282667
Demovictory9
(36,887 posts)70sEraVet
(4,703 posts)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.
Uncle Joe
(62,523 posts)Thanks for the thread Demovictory