Unexpected ICE raid at Arkansas park raises more questions and concerns

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DOVER, Ark. (KATV) — A video posted on YouTube by Adventuras en Arkansas has captured a controversial incident involving ICE agents and U.S. Forest Service officers at the Long Pool Recreation Area.

The footage shows officers questioning and detaining visitors, with several individuals being placed in a van amid cries and screams from family and friends.

A person familiar with the incident told Channel 7 that the agents arrived following a littering complaint.

Immigration law attorney Nathan Bogart expressed surprise at the situation, saying, "Me personally, I have never encountered a situation where a littering complaint resulted in ICE responding."

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[Demovictory9]

1. Its like the 1970s again... people reporting gatherings of Hispanic people

[RazorbackExpat]

2. I don't think it's anything like the 1970s

Speaking as someone who spent his teen years in the state in the 1970s. The 1970s were pretty much an era of "live and let live", as the state was trying to extricate itself from the hillbilly/redneck image that had bogged the state since the days of Huck Finn, Hillbilly Hare, Little Rock Central High, the Wacky Races, Arkanstone, etc., etc., etc.

[LiberalArkie]

3. To me, more like the 1950's in South Eastern Arkansas with Blacks and Japanese from the internment camps or

along the western border with Oklahoma and the Native Americans. A lot of just HATE.

[RazorbackExpat]

4. I used to work with a lot of Cherokees in western Washington County

in the 1980s. The shift supervisor was a pretty cool older lady Cherokee. I really enjoyed talking to her during break times