Over the past six months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has developed a rather contentious image. The federal agency under DHS has been conducting raids, making arrests, and detaining undocumented individuals in the United States ever since Donald Trump returned to serve his second term. However, they have been heavily criticized for their actions during the arrest.
ICE’s situation has gotten worse when they were seen on tape giggling and gloating while detaining two undocumented immigrants in Florida. And it’s not just that! The teen who took the video was also threatened by the authorities to remove it or risk legal action.
An adolescent US citizen was informed by immigration officials that they had no rights. He recorded his violent arrest in secret. Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio’s 18-year-old video raises new concerns about the harsh methods employed to meet the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement goals.iJXt4BTndJ https://t.co/VC41m4BzNrpic.twitter.com
July 25, 2025 George Roussos (@baphometx)
The event began on May 2 when Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, then 18 years old, was riding with two other young men in his mother’s car to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach. The Florida Highway Patrol stopped them, and as they called for a backup, an officer asked each person in the van to identify themselves. Kenny claimed that since they were traveling well below the speed limit, he had no idea why their car had been pulled over.
According to The Guardian, the footage starts with a female officer inquiring in Spanish if any of them are in the country illegally.In response, one of Kenny’s friends admits that he lacks documentation. “All right, let’s go,” the officer says. But before they can even get out of the van, things become nasty and confrontational. According to Kenny, an officer allegedly reached inside the window, opened the door, took hold of my friend’s neck, and put him in a chokehold.
The officers can then be seen grabbing for him in the footage that Kenny took. He objects, though, stating, “You can’t grab me like that.” I was born and reared exactly here, he adds.
With a stun gun aimed at him, the cop nevertheless dragged him out and pushed him to the ground.
The other man, however, was forcibly removed from the van by several officers who were heard yelling, “Put your f-cking head down.”
Kenny explained that his friend wasn’t even resisting, yet he still condemned the authorities’ conduct. According to my friend, he did nothing before they seized him.
The URL is https://t.co/FUpK2pp9tWe will ultimately have to shoot some of them.
A Florida Highway Patrol officer stopped a van carrying 18-year-old U.S. citizen Kenny Laynez-Ambrosiopic.twitter.com/0bzYDGRO0Y at 9:00 on the morning of May 2, 2025.
July 26, 2025, Leroysgame (@Leroysgame1)
Kenny is heard saying, “That’s not how you arrest people,” on the footage. If you are going to make arrests, you must do it on a regular basis. Then, in Spanish, he tells his pal, “Don’t resist.” Don’t fight.
After that, an officer stuns Kenny’s friend. He screams in agony as he hits the ground. Then, Kenny says to a cop, “You’re frightening the guy.” You don’t arrest individuals like that.
“Why?” the cop asks nonchalantly. He continues, “You don’t have any rights here.” Brother, you are a migo.
The audio of unnamed officers mocking the whole event is also captured on the video. As others laughed, an officer boasted about using a stun gun and added, “You’re funny, bro.”
An officer was heard saying, “We’re going to end up shooting some of them,” in response to someone saying, “They’re starting to resist more now.”
They can be seen celebrating in the later section of the video as someone exclaims, “Goddamn!” Whoosh! Good! A prospective bonus is mentioned by another. According to The Guardian, “just keep in mind, you can smell that [inaudible] $30,000 bonus.”
After being taken into custody, Kenny spent six hours in a cell at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility. His two pals, meanwhile, were moved to Miami’s Krome prison facility. According to the portal, Kenny was given a four-hour anger management course and ten hours of community service after being found guilty of obstruction without using violence.
According to Kenny, the police threatened to prosecute him if he didn’t remove the video recording from his phone while he was being held. But he declined.
According to Jack Scarola, Kenny’s attorney, the charges against him were brought against him because he documented the entire event. Kenny faced charges of filming [and was] accused of interfering with law enforcement’s operations. However, he claimed that there was only the exercise of the right to document what was occurring and no deliberate intervention.
Immigrant arrest quotas have been set by the federal government. Scarola added that there is a serious risk to other rights if law enforcement is forced to work toward a quota.
Here, you have no rights. Officers told an American man that while tasing his coworkers and pushing him to the ground. Kenny Laynez is eighteen. a landscaper. A son. A citizen. And because of his skin tone, none of that mattered. Florida’s crackdown on immigrantspic.twitter.com/5h2Y9rnUKZ
July 29, 2025, Areva Martin, Esq. (@ArevaMartin)
The Trump administration and ICE have been heavily criticized as a result of the video. This is a story about the corruption of law enforcement by Maga and the brutality of state and federal troopers formerly public servants towards nonviolent people, said Father Frank O Loughlin, founder and executive director of the Guatemalan-Maya Center.
Kenny hopes the video will increase awareness of the treatment of immigrants in the United States when it goes popular on social media. It didn’t have to end that way. If they knew that my people were undocumented, they could ve just kindly taken them out of the car and arrested them. Seeing my pals in that state was really upsetting. Because they re just good people, trying to earn an honest living, he said, as per The Guardian.
