A recent ICE arrest has gone viral as it apparently took place inside a gated and private townhome community in California. While the homeowners and community members managed to force the ICE agents out of their allegedly private neighborhood, the damage has been done, as the federal agents apparently drove away with two detainees.
The incident occurred on December 24 in Oasis Townhomes, Fontana, California. Several ICE agents were spotted in the act of arresting and transporting their detainees in their SUVs before a couple of civilians in the area started documenting and shouting at them to stop their supposedly illegal operations. Apparently, the ICE agents failed to present a warrant or permission to enter the gated neighborhood:
The video, uploaded by TikTok user Jessica Rodriguez, aka j3ssrod1986, shows a couple of civilians living in the area already in the process of recording the ICE agents and their vehicles. The video recorded claims that the ICE agents have “no warrants whatsoever,” and are allegedly trespassing on private property. One of the ICE agents wearing a “police” vest even tried to push away the woman who was recording him, but to no avail, as she fought back.
Sadly, based on the video’s caption, “This is the world we live in right now. They kidnapped two people,” the ICE agents already managed to arrest. It’s not clear who the ICE agents arrested, or if they were tenants or homeowners within the gated community, though they managed to drive away from the area without further resistance.
People online are praising the recorders
While it’s not yet known what happened to the two people arrested by ICE that day, people online have nevertheless praised the woman and the man recording in the video for resisting ICE’s presence in their gated community. “She’s so amazing for standing up to them like that 🙏🏽,” commends a TikTok user, with the uploaded replying, “She’s my little hero.”
In other social media platforms, however, a debate ensued about ICE’s jurisdiction. “ICE doesn’t need warrants for immigration arrests. The deportation order is the warrant. That’s in the patriot act that we’ve been complaining about for 24 years,” claims a commenter on X/Twitter.
Still, some have insisted that what ICE did in the video was against the law as “You can’t in fact just walk onto marked private property and hangout without an invite by the owner…even if it’s outside.”Meanwhile, another commenter has pointed out that the license plate on one of ICE’s vehicles has an expiration date of March 2025, effectively making the registration expired now.
