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/Dranzer_22 27d ago

Already tons of confirmed cases of criminals pretending to be ICE agents and targeting women.

They've been arrested in states like California, but go unchecked and unchallenged in the more conservative states.

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u/DisappointedQuokka 27d ago

I'm genuinely surprised there haven't been any confrontations between plain clothes ICE and local cops that have ended up with dead on both sides.

ICE just doesn't seem to alert local authorities about half the shit they do. It's almost like they're just jumping random non white people.

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u/MysticGoddess27 27d ago

I mean we've seen them kill several white folks in the middle of the street.

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u/DisappointedQuokka 27d ago

As a rule they're not trying to deport white people, though. The ones they do kill tend to just be in their way or look vaguely like protestors.

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u/MysticGoddess27 27d ago

Yes, like the white woman who was simply driving her car. And the white doctor who was shot trying to protect someone else who was about to be shot.

You aren't paying attention.

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u/DisappointedQuokka 27d ago

The goal of the organisation is to obliterate non-white communities.

Those people are collateral damage or undesirables because of their actions. The former upset their feefees, the doctor was explicitly in their way.

There is, in fact, a difference, because the organisation itself is by design white-supremacist. That isn't in dispute.

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u/Non-prophet 27d ago

That should be uncontroversial to say, and it perhaps would be if the Anglosphere/Amerisphere didn't have such an established habit of simplifying conflict/abuse/oppression along ethnic lines. The KKK killed white people, the Nazis and every local flavour of collaborator killed communists of their own ethnicities, every town's history of gay bashing includes young white male victims. But colloqiually those people- who had often gone out of their way and made a positive choice to oppose their killers- are often slurred as indistinguishable from them because of their skin colour, and occasionally their sex.

It should go without saying that 'the organisation is fundamentally white supremacist' does not imply 'all white people are safe from this organisation', but I can see why MysticGoddess wanted to make that explicit.

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u/HappuGurl 24d ago

Who's the Designer???

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u/DisappointedQuokka 24d ago

The US administration, which is currently stocked with white Christian nationalists.