Tulsa ICE Officials Use 16-year-old Son as Bait to Trap Undocumented Family (Latina Lista)

A story reported by Hispano de Tulsa of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the hardest areas hit by HB 1804 and suffering a toll on the local Latino community, is about a 16-year-old boy who was stopped by police at a makeshift checkpoint that our sources tell us are now randomly being set up around the state to catch undocumented immigrants driving without licenses or insurance.

This boy was caught at one of these checkpoints and arrested. A friend who was with him was told by the officer that the boy would be released if someone came and paid his $500 fine. The friend was released and immediately called the boy’s family.”*

I actually got pulled over by an Oklahoma State Trooper last week. I didn’t get a ticket (something to do with my car’s tags) so I had to ask him about immigration in Oklahoma and he said that the State Troopers don’t have the budget or manpower to deal with undocumented that they stop. Other than that he didn’t even seem aware of the new law. He was just a nice guy doing his job.

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