THIS IS THE AMERICA YOU VOTED FOR. AND CONDONE. AND ACCEPT.

On the morning of May 2, 18-year-old American citizen Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two male friends when they were pulled over by the Florida highway patrol. A highway patrol officer asked everyone in the van to identify themselves, then called for backup. Officers with US Customs and Border Protection arrived on the scene. Laynez-Ambrosia had his phone out about to show his mother a TikTok video. Instead he ended up filming his own arrest. Video footage of the incident appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men, two of whom are undocumented. They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.” Laynez-Ambrosio can also be heard telling officers: “I was born and raised right here.” Still, he was pushed to the ground and says that an officer aimed a stun gun at him. He was subsequently arrested and held in a cell at a CBP station for six hours. Audio in the video catches the unidentified officers debriefing and appearing to make light of the stun gun use. “You’re funny, bro,” one officer can be overheard saying to another, followed by laughter. Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.” Later in the footage, the officers move on to general celebration – “Goddamn! Woo! Nice!” – and talk of the potential bonus they’ll be getting: “Just remember, you can smell that [inaudible] $30,000 bonus.” It is unclear what bonus they are referring to. Donald Trump’s recent spending bill includes billions of additional dollars for ICE that could be spent on recruitment and retention tactics such as bonuses. Laynez-Ambrosio was charged with obstruction without violence and sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course. While in detention, he said, police threatened him with charges if he did not delete the video footage from his phone, but he refused. If this is what happens when immigration agents know they’re being recorded, God only knows what goes on when they know they’re not. Its apparent skin color now supersedes civil rights for American citizens. Or more likely, civil rights for American citizens is now determined by the Trump administration. Texas, and your constituents, better get used to stories like this. We’re about to become an immigrant penal colony for the feds. Just ask Ft. Bliss. And Texas has got a whole lotta brown folks. Despicable.