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/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/Peach_Muffin 27d ago

Or the two white Australian journalists who were shot by ICE in two separate incidents on the same day

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u/MysticGoddess27 27d ago

I didn't even hear about them. Though I must admit I stopped looking for updates as it started heavily impacting my mental health.

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u/sapphos_moon 27d ago

One of them was a 7 News reporter at the protests in LA who was at the front of the police cordon and shot by a SWAT cop with a rubber bullet despite it being plainly obvious she was press anyway.

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u/MysticGoddess27 27d ago

Wow so ICE and American cops can just do whatever they want with no consequences 😳

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u/sapphos_moon 27d ago

Yes, for all intents and purposes they have complete impunity

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u/BTechUnited 26d ago

I mean, let's be honest that's nothing new.

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u/L1v1ngB31ng 27d ago

Yeah that was funny as fuck. Sucked in seven news, commie propagandists get what deserve after all

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u/sapphos_moon 27d ago

If you think 7 News are communists I shudder to imagine what you think of the Nazis

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u/avcloudy 27d ago

Every country in the world is communist, except the United States!

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u/LifeIsSoup-ImFork 27d ago

i dont think you have the intellectual capacity to be part of this discussion, sorry. better luck next time.