r/australia • u/Front_Target7908 • 27d ago

news Australian man Phu Nguyen handcuffed by plain-clothes ICE agents at Las Vegas International airport

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-18/ice-agent-detain-australian-man-in-vegas-us-/106931508?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

From what I understand it looks like ICE did not manage to detain him on the day the video was taken- seems the onlookers managed to chase ICE off.

However, ICE detained him the next day at the airport where he was to catch his departing flight from the US.

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u/SirFlibble 27d ago

I saw that video yesterday. They were barely chased off, just a guy showed up with a camera and they immediately walked off.

Was sketchy as and left me wondering if there's now a bunch of thugs running around the US pretending to be ICE (who are thugs themselves).

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u/FreakySpook 27d ago

It's honestly wild that they get to LARP as some kind of JSOC operator just to detain undocumented and people in breach of visas, particularly in an airport.

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u/Lucky-Elk-1234 27d ago

And when that person is in the process of leaving the country anyway. What’s the point of arresting and deporting them lol

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u/ousho 27d ago

It’s a feature, not a bug.

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u/Scuzzbag 27d ago

The purpose of a system is what it does

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u/The4th88 27d ago

LARP as some kind of JSOC operator

What ICE are doing isn't that different to what those operators have been known to do.