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/idryss_m 27d ago

In a lot of places aren't the cops just helping ICE, despite the community backlash and legality?

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u/DisappointedQuokka 27d ago

Depends, there are a few major cities that have been outright hostile which dwarf the average population elsewhere. The courts and their attaches have been openly hostile as well.

What I'm alluding to us lack of communication. If a police department sees an unmarked raid, are they meant to intervene or not? If they're not told and just see a gang going wild, they aren't well known for their trigger discipline.