# @aldotcom on YouTube

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- **Posted:** 2026-03-04T22:30:16.000+00:00
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## Caption

During an oversight committee hearing this week, Sen. Richard Blumenthal “introduced” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to three U.S. citizens detained by immigration officials.

In the hearing, Noem did not answer a question from Blumenthal asking if she has met any of the U.S. citizens detained or arrested by immigration officials.

Blumenthal proceeded to introduce her to three such citizens including Leonardo Garcia Venegas who was arrested twice by ICE in south Alabama last year.

“Do you know what your agents did to Leo Venegas? I’ll tell you,” Blumenthal said.

“On May 21 of last year, they entered the private property at a house that he was constructing without consent, without a warrant, illegally. Again, on June 12, they entered private property, a home where he was doing construction. He is a United States citizen, born in Florida. They seized him and ignored and disregarded his proof of citizenship.”

The DHS later posted on social media that “Leonardo Garcia Venegas attempted to obstruct and prevent the lawful arrest of an illegal alien. He put himself between law enforcement and the subject they were attempting to arrest, and he refused to comply with numerous verbal commands.”

Venegas filed a federal lawsuit in October alleging that ICE routinely arrests lawful workers and any individual who appears Latino during immigration raids.

The suit alleges that during the first raid, Venegas saw five men in camouflage jump over a property fence past a “no trespassing” sign, run past white and Black workers and chase the Latino workers.

As he saw the agents “assault” his brother, who also worked there, he pulled out his phone to record a video. An officer approached Venegas and a second officer ran over to help tackle him to the ground.

The officers pulled Venegas’s Alabama STAR ID out of his pocket and told him it was fake. He was arrested and not released for over an hour until an officer called to check on his Social Security number.

Reporting by Patrick Darrington
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