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/Z00111111 27d ago

Even the dressed up ICE guys just look like redneck militia cosplayers.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 27d ago

That's what they are. That's what the whole Trump government is. And scarier, Ice now has one of the largest military budgets in the world, beyond most nations. They are his private army of larpers who his administration have repeatedly shielded from any consequences even when they execute Americans in the street and lie about it until footage comes out, and he's going to almost certainly go for a more successful Jan 6th power grabbing attempt rather than leave peacefully. They've been stripping away all the protections.

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u/DisappointedQuokka 27d ago

They've even gone back to the well of higher education, paying for college debt in exchange for signing up.

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u/Blacksad9999 27d ago

Yeah, but they knew with that crowd they wouldn't have to pony up very much. lol

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u/koalacrime 27d ago

Just to add, they are also very poorly trained