Immigrant activists question use of work truck; ICE backs plainclothes enforcement actions

An activist group that supports the rights of undocumented immigrants living in the United States claimed this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were seen in Hendersonville dressed as day laborers in an effort to round up undocumented immigrants.

DreamACTivist.org, a group formed by undocumented youth to protect their rights under the so-called "Dream Act," which allows young people brought to the U.S. illegally to live, drive and work without the threat of deportation, posted video of a man stepping out of a white van and talking to a man about immigration policy.

"I don't make the laws in this country. My job is to enforce them," says a man in the video dressed all in black with an apparent bullet-proof vest.

Bryan Cox, an ICE spokesman based in New Orleans, told WRAL News that the agent in the video is “clearly branded.” The words "POLICE" and "ICE" are visible, big and bold across the back of the man's shirt.

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