Jacelynn Guzman said she is a U.S.-born citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it “determined the individual in question was not the target.”

Masked immigration authorities were recorded on video this week following a woman back to her Louisiana home during what the Department of Homeland Security is calling a “targeted immigration enforcement operation.”

Jacelynn Guzman, 23, was walking home Thursday from a corner store in Marrero, a New Orleans suburb, when a silver, unmarked SUV pulled up next to her and two masked agents exited, she said.

“I was walking and the first car pulled up on the side of me and I thought it was an Uber,” she said. “They said, ‘Wait don’t run, Ma’am.’ That’s all I heard before I blasted off,” Guzman told NBC News on Saturday.

Guzman said she repeatedly told the agents she’s a U.S. citizen.

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    These guys are absolutely fucking morons! Woman walking alone. Unmarked SUV pulls up next to her and masked men jump out. And they think she’s not going to fucking run for her god damn life?

    ‘Wait don’t run, Ma’am.’

    Oh, yes, that clears everything up. Kidnappers looking to take her to Epstein’s Island for Matt Gaetz wouldn’t ever say that. /s

    Absolute fucking dipshits.

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      Right outside of NOLA too, they ain’t waiting to see what the deal is. If it seems wrong, just get the fuck out of there and ask questions later. I wonder if these gestapo fucks are dumb enough to try this in the 9th Ward

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    It’s almost as if any ordinary masked individual can kidnap anyone? I wonder how that would fly if some ordinary masked individuals came into white neighborhoods.

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      Haven’t there already been documented cases of thieves dressing up this way? And the FBI also reportedly warned DHS/ICE that this was likely to happen if they continued to cover their faces etc.

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        I think it’s moreso been rapists so far. I have been saying that the quickest way to get the masks off ICE is to have people dress up as ICE and rob white businesses.

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    “Wait, don’t run ma’am” is a really weird way of giving your credentials and reason for the stop.

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    She’s lucky the assholes didn’t shoot her for “disobeying an order”.

    I don’t envy the PTSD she’s going to have each time she leaves the house now. ICE needs to get fucked

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      They’re lucky she didn’t shoot them for being jackbooted thugs indistinguishable from criminal kidnappers.

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      A giant gang of traitors to their country and to humanity.

      I can’t think of a punishment too severe for them.

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    If you watch the whole video one of the ICE kidnappers was hispanic. The step dad (?) of the girl calls him out. Wild.

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      About 30% of all people, regardless of descent, are Authoritarians. They’ll gladly sign up to hurt others when told to and assume they’ll be rewarded by the dictator for their loyalty. Even when the whole basis of the cruelty is on race, there’s always Quislings lining up to be oppressors assuming they won’t be on the firing line later when the conservatives run out of other outsiders to kill off.

      White Fascism is a death cult. Anyone participating is first killing everyone around them, and then themselves. They are not to be trusted.

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        That is a very interesting statistic. I’ve always thought that some qualities were distributed across populations regardless of race, income, etc. Do you have a source for the 30% stat?

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          The classic source for the research is The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer. Full text available here from the author: https://theauthoritarians.org/

          He studied authoritarian attitudes and other related behaviors for decades. The book came out on the heels of the end of the George W. Bush presidency. He absolutely called the future of the Republican party / Conservative movement we have today as it morphs into a full on fascist administration.

          Very highly recommended reading, designed for more laypeople then pure researchers, and is spot on for the situation we’re in.