"For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as utility workers he'd seen outside his family's Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis. They wore high-visibility vests and spotless white hard hats, he noticed, even while parked in their vehicle. His search for the Wisconsin-based electrician advertised on the car's doors returned no results. On Tuesday, when their Nissan returned to the lot outside his restaurant, Ramirez, 31, filmed his confrontation with the two men,"
""If you have people afraid that the electrical worker outside their house might be ICE, you're inviting public distrust and confusion on a much more dangerous level," said Naureen Shah, the director of immigration advocacy at the American Civil Liberties Union. "This is what you do if you're trying to control a populace, not trying to do routine, professional law enforcement.""
Luis Ramirez filmed two men in high-visibility vests and white hard hats outside his family’s Mexican restaurant after his online search found no matching electrician. The men hid their faces and appeared to wear heavy tactical gear beneath the vests. A Department of Homeland Security and ICE spokesperson did not respond about whether the men were federal officers. Reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and anti-ICE activists have increased amid a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Not all incidents are verified, but fears and legal concerns have risen, with civil liberties advocates warning of public distrust.
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