Witness video shows immigration arrest of man in downtown Portland: ‘Like he was just snatched off the street’

A Colombian immigrant who had just appeared in federal immigration court Wednesday was pulled over while driving on a downtown Portland street and arrested by masked federal agents dressed in plain clothes, his immigration attorney told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

The man, who is identified in court papers only as E-A-T-B, was going through the legal process of seeking asylum from life-threatening dangers in his home country and has no criminal history, said his immigration attorney, Yessenia Martinez.

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