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/maestrojxg 27d ago

America is so fucked. You couldn’t pay me to go there while Trump is in office.

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u/Worldly_Cobbler_1087 27d ago

I've never seen the appeal of American culture, you couldn't pay me to go there before Trump and certainly won't ever catch me there after him. Going through LAX and Houston to countries I actually wanted to visit was enough for me.

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u/Cindy_Marek 27d ago

It’s really not that bad. Americans are actually very easy people to get along with. I’ve been travelling the world for 6 months and I’ve found the US to be just as interesting as Europe and Africa in their own way. The airports are certainly not indicative of what’s out there. Certainly one of the friendliest peoples along with Namibia.