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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 08:31 PM Friday

Rep. Bynum: ICE abduction of citizen like "Fugitive Slave Act, when Marshals would hunt down & kidnap Black Americans"

David J. Bier @David_J_Bier 5h
ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

Rep. Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents

U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop abducting her constituents, a week after ICE agents apprehended a Milwaukie man born in California on his way to work and detained him for part of the day.

“These ICE raids are reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act, when the U.S. Marshals would hunt down and kidnap Black Americans,” Bynum said in a statement. “That was a dark and shameful time in our nation’s history—we must not allow that to repeat. Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans.”

Frank Miranda, 46, filmed ICE agents confronting him before work on Oct. 2, demanding that he answer questions about where he was born. When he refused, agents threatened him with a dog and took him to the ICE facility on South Macadam Avenue.

Portland lawyer Michael Fuller described Miranda’s ordeal in a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday, flagging his client’s intention to seek damages.

Asked about ICE’s response today, Fuller wrote in an email: “As Trump himself said, anonymous sources are bullshit. The fact that ICE won’t attribute its comment to an actual person speaks to the baseless nature of its statement. The abduction video speaks for itself.”

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/10/09/bynum-demands-end-to-ice-raids-after-us-citizen-allegedly-abducted-by-masked-agents/






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Oct 9, 2025
Frank Miranda, a U.S. citizen, shot this video of ICE agents apprehending him early on the morning of Oct. 2, 2025.


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Rep. Bynum: ICE abduction of citizen like "Fugitive Slave Act, when Marshals would hunt down & kidnap Black Americans" (Original Post) bigtree Friday OP
And they know it, that's why the masks. Joinfortmill Friday #1
I always thought Homan looked like the type JI7 Friday #2
I've been saying "Fugitive Slave Act" ever since Texas set bounty hunters on women of every color Hekate Friday #3
good analogy bigtree Saturday #4

Joinfortmill

(19,154 posts)
1. And they know it, that's why the masks.
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 08:39 PM
Friday

And the glasses, They're trying to hide any way of later identying them. Photographers should try to get any identyfying parts of them.

Hekate

(99,776 posts)
3. I've been saying "Fugitive Slave Act" ever since Texas set bounty hunters on women of every color
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 11:35 PM
Friday
America?

Don’t say “this isn’t us” because unless we outlaw ICE, this IS us.
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