US citizen ThongLy Thao told the Associated Press how armed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents removed him from his his St. Paul, Minnesota home at gunpoint, and then led him onto the street in his underwear in subfreezing conditions:
“I was shaking,” he said. “They didn’t show any warrant; they just broke down the door.”
Thao said agents drove him “to the middle of nowhere” and made him get out of the car in the frigid weather so they could photograph him. He said he feared they would beat him. He was asked for his ID, which agents earlier prevented him from retrieving.
Agents eventually realized that he was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Thao said, and an hour or two later, they brought him back to his house. There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said.
(Source: Associated Press)