John Collins owns a dairy farm in Rome, New York and recently he had several immigration agents come onto his property (at least 7 of them) to detain and haul away one of his farm workers.

Collins said that he had heard yelling going on in the milk house on his property and that when he had gone over there to see what was going on, he saw agents assaulting one of his farm workers. That man in question, Marcial de Leon Aguilar, was said to be pinned up against a window. And when Collins had asked them for identification or a warrant, they didn't respond by showing him any.

Although, he alleges that they did tell him that they were there with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

When they couldn't provide him with any paperwork, Collins allegedly asked them to vacate his property.

He told them that they could come back and search anything that they wanted, he just wanted to see the appropriate paperwork beforehand.

Collins pictured above

Collins alleges that after they refused, and continued to harass Aguilar, that he had tried to take out his phone to record the incident and that is when agents allegedly knocked his phone away from him. And they then proceeded to take Aguilar away. They also allegedly handcuffed Collins and threatened him that he was interfering with their investigation, before deciding to take off the cuffs and let him go.

"I couldn't believe how unprofessional...the whole situation was" says Collins

According to Collins, Aguilar has been working for him for almost a year now, and that he has been living in a home on his farm property with his wife and children. According to Collins, his wife had been meeting with immigration officers recently and was attempting to seek asylum for her family due to the violence in their home country of Guatemala.

Collins says that this isn't the America that he is familiar with, that this is the sort of behavior you see on the TV, he says, and not something that you would expect to see in his own community.

Immigration officers are required to provide a warrant and so Collins is less than impressed that they stormed onto his property without first obtaining appropriate permission from him, or showing him any warrant indicating that they had the authority to do so. Collins insists that Aguilar and his wife had been attempting to work within the system to get the appropriate paperwork filled out, to seek asylum etc, and then this whole ugly incident took place despite their efforts.

Pics:
Pixabay
via syracuse.com

Sources:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2018/04/upstate_ny_farmer_says_ice_officers_stormed_his_farm_without_a_warrant_cuffed_hi.html
http://www.newsweek.com/ice-raid-farm-warrant-immigrant-893388
https://goo.gl/CNMFcP
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/383894-ny-farmer-says-ice-raided-his-farm-without-warrant-and-cuffed-him

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