“The People Are Chanting ‘BRING IN TRUMP!’”

 To Oregon:

Christian Jimenez, 17, a U.S. citizen born in Newberg and a high school senior, was driving his father’s car around 12:30 p.m. during his lunch break when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stopped his car, Jimenez’s older brother, Cesar Jimenez, said in an interview.

The teenager told the officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer proceeded to break the car’s driver’s side window and detain him. In a video shared by Cesar Jimenez, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”

And North Carolina:

Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez — a U.S. citizen and father of two young children — was “trying to protect immigrants,” his family said, as Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents patrolled Charlotte and made more than 300 arrests this week.

He did this by taking photos and sending them in an Instagram chat, where they were posted for the public to see. When agents spotted Martinez snapping pictures at multiple locations on Sunday, Nov. 16, they told him to leave, got out of their cars and tugged on his door handle.

Martinez was doing “citizen journalism,” and officers had no right to stop him or tell him to leave, his lawyer argued Thursday in court.

Even still, Martinez left, officers chased — and Martinez ended up in jail, his lawyer said. He was charged Monday with assaulting, resisting and impeding federal officers, a felony. If prosecuted at the highest level, the charge could carry a 20-year prison sentence.

Now, after a three-hour Thursday hearing held days after Martinez’s arrest, a federal judge is considering whether agents had probable cause to arrest and charge him in the first place.

If people did want to “bring in Trump,” it wouldn’t be for the reasons Trump thinks. 

Time for some accountability.