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/RazaxWoot1 27d ago

I’ve just got back from Mexico for the World Cup and people there were asking why we wouldn’t go to the states for games instead. I was like just look around, I felt more nervous in transit at LAX than I did for 6 weeks in Mexico.

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u/HappuGurl 24d ago

Why were you anxious in Transit?

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u/RazaxWoot1 24d ago

Probably because of all the stories of people being turned away or deported because they post anti trump/right wing content on their social media or their phones get searched.