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ICE agents smashed a car window with an axe and forcibly removed 29-year-old Juan Francisco-Mendez, a Guatemalan man who has no criminal record and who was awaiting his final documentation to solidify his asylum status. His attorney says he is not the man the agents were looking for. Francisco-Mendez’s wife, who recorded the incident, said it was terrifying to see ICE agents smash her husband’s window and forcibly grab him in front of her. When agents approached Francisco-Mendez in his car, they were asking for a man by the name of Antonio, a person who used to live in his building, according to his attorney. Francisco-Mendez told them that it wasn’t him. In a statement, an ICE spokesperson said Juan Francisco-Mendez “is an illegally present Guatemalan alien.” “During the course of his arrest, he refused to comply with officers’ instructions and resisted apprehension. ICE concurs with the actions deemed appropriate by the officers on the scene who are trained to use the minimum am...

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