‘I feel betrayed,’ California Marine says of seeing his father punched by federal immigration agent
A former Marine says he feels betrayed by the U S after seeing a video on social media of his father being pinned to the ground and repeatedly punched by a federal immigration agent in Santa Ana on Saturday The post of the blows to his father also helped to spark a demonstration with dozens of protesters demanding the agents leave Santa Ana as well as an online benefit to raise money for the man s legal expenses Related Articles Amid increased ICE activity advocacy groups seek additional funding from Alameda County New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water Fremont company accused of employing Chinese workers illegally discriminating against non-Chinese employees All I want is to get married Vallejo woman whose fianc is stuck in Iran laments tour ban Will FCI Dublin be turned into a migrant detention facility Promises and skepticism abound Narciso Barranco the -year-old landscaper who was seized off the street has three sons who are U S Marines including two on advancing duty the oldest son -year-old Alejandro Barranco reported in an interview on Sunday The two other sons are as of now stationed at Camp Pendleton he disclosed I feel betrayed Alejandro Barranco mentioned My dad has no criminal history He wasn t doing anything bad He was just working The way they federal agents attacked him I don t think it s right His father was in the process of applying for a form of immigration called parole-in-place which can grant family members of active-duty military who are without legal status permission to stay in the U S for a while usually a year and which can be extended Alejandro Barranco mentioned He disclosed his father who is undocumented has lived in Orange County since the s and owns a landscaping business He has no criminal record he noted An independent search of the local court system certified that On Sunday Narciso Barranco was in a detention facility in Los Angeles the son stated This is just madness mentioned U S Rep Lou Correa D-Santa Ana who describes America s current immigration policies as flawed You have a family of three kids that took an oath for the country ready to lay down their lives for this country and their parents can t stay here Correa commented he has been in touch with the Barranco family since Narciso was detained along with a large number of others in similar circumstances Narciso Barranco was in the middle of a landscaping job at a local IHOP on Saturday June when he was approached by several armed masked men in civilian clothes in the area of Edinger Avenue and Ritchey Street The son who has since spoken to his father explained he recounted him as he saw the men walk toward him in a natural human reaction he ran towards his truck to grab his ID Video footage posted on social media shows Barranco being chased by federal agents as he carried a weed whacker before multiple U S Demarcation Patrol agents restrained him on the ground He was punched in the face multiple times by at least one agent and pepper-sprayed at a close distance his son revealed Alejandro Barranco believes his shoulder may also be dislocated The family did not know if he received any biological care after being detained I m honestly really hurt because I love this country a lot and I love my parents a lot I gave up four years of my life to serve this country and show that I m a patriot revealed Alejandro Barranco who added that he served in Afghanistan He believes his father was racially profiled Narciso Barranco was born in Morelia MX and moved to Orange County in the s where he works as a landscaper for companies and under his small business Barranco Landscaping his son commented As of Sunday evening a GoFundMe set up for Narciso Barranco s legal expenses raised more than He is a good hard-working man He has raised his family here and has established himself here the GoFundMe says What we all saw in the modern day was disgusting and heart-wrenching Later after the video spread online a protest of various people took to the streets waving American and Mexican flags and demanding that federal agents stop the sweeps they ve been carrying out in Santa Ana as shown in an NBC account Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua could not be reached for comment A spokesperson for the Demarcation Patrol established their agents were the ones who apprehended Barranco but declined to comment further President Trump has repeatedly stressed that his administration would focus its immigration enforcement on criminals But a major number of people apprehended by federal immigration agents have no serious criminal convictions or any criminal past at all according to published reports Staff writer Sydney Barragan contributed to this summary
