In today’s edition of FAFO, meet Jensy Machado. Hispanic, immigrant, Trump supporter.
Jensy is a naturalized immigrant, so he thought he was one of the “good ones” that Trump and ICE would love! I mean, he voted for Trump, he probably has a MAGA red hat and Trump flags and he even has a Trump bumper sticker! He is ALL ON THE TRUMP TRAIN (toot toot!).
Alas, that was not enough to stop him from being racially profiled by law enforcement for his brown skin.
See, Machado was stopped by law enforcement and DETAINED BY IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) because they were looking for another brown Hispanic man on a deportation order and I guess he looked like the guy? Isn’t that what they say when the stop (and maybe murder) Black people?
Machado told NBC4 that he was driving to work on Wednesday in Virginia when he was stopped by ICE agents near his house. He was super confused by the situation.
He said: “And they just got out of the car with the guns in their hands and say, turn off the car, give me the keys, open the window, you know. Everything was really fast.”
The agent told him who they were looking for and told him that the person facing the deportation order had given them Machado’s address. Machado offered to show them his ID, which clearly did not have the name as they person they were looking for. They declined.
