Narciso Barranco, a Mexican gardener, was detained in a raid in California as part of the US President Donald Trump’s immigration intervention in the United States.
The father of the three Marines was captured in June this year by American immigration and customs agents, while cutting off the garden in the restaurant in Santa Ana, the city south of Los Angeles, the AFP press agency reported.
The incident was captured by witnesses in videos that spread like a fire on social media. Recently the Ministry of the Home Security shared a video on X while responding to a New York Times Report And he reiterated that “Narciso Barranco attacked CBP agent and wildly turned the weeds of the weeds right on the face of the agent.”
Who is Narciso Barranco?
The US Department of Internal Security described Narciso Barranco as a “illegal alien” – the term Trump’s administration for immigrants who illegally entered the US.
After three decades in California, narcisso Barranco was arrested by American federal agents, while spitting outside Ihop, mixing outrage and fighting to stop his deportation.
Barranco’s memory of his arrest is fragmented: a blinding sting of pepper spray; Beef federal agents took him off and pressed him on the sidewalk; their tireless strikes; pain radiating from his left shoulder.
Narciso Barranco reportedly emigrated from Mexico in the 90’s. He has three sons – all the citizens of the United States. One of them, Alejandro, left the army, while his two brothers are located in Camp Pendleton, also in Southern California, AFP reported.
Martha Hernandez, Barranco’s wife and stepmother of three young men, is also an American citizen.
The naval veteran Alejandro said that his father, Narciso Barranco, 56, lived in California since the 90’s without legal status, but also without any criminal record.
“He always taught us to respect, love our country, always return,” said the younger Barranco, adding that he felt “betrayed”.
All three of Barranc’s sons were born in the US and eventually joined the US Army. Alejandro left the naval choir in 2023. His two brothers are currently active Marines.
Why do the US want to deport narcisso Barranco?
Saturday’s arrests Narciso Barranco, which came to the US from Mexico at the age of 90, but has no legal status, is the latest, which attracted extensive attention, because the intervention against immigration by President Donald Trump’s administration attracts control and protests.
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant of the US Department of Internal Security, said AFP said that Narciso Barranco tried to escape and “marked the weeds of the weeds directly on the faces of the officer”, so the officers took the steps.
McLaughlin reportedly stated that they used “the minimum amount of strength necessary to resolve the situation to prefer public security and our officers”.
However, Alejandro Barranco, Narciso’s son, questioned the claim and said that his father had not attacked anyone.
He said he was shocked when he saw a video on his father’s social media, a landscape painter in southern California, who was defeated by masked border patrol officers when he was attached to the ground during an immigration arrest.
“The video shows (narciso) moving weeds.
“There is a man holding a gun sideways, a finger on the trigger that points to the vehicle. I do not understand how it makes sense. The minimum amount of force does not include the limitation of the man and repeatedly hit him in the throat and facial areas.
Video
The American DHS posted a video in which Barranco was seen running with a trimmer in the air when the agents tried to objection.
At one point the agent sprayed it with pepper spray and Barranco moved the trimmer between him and the agent, but he didn’t touch him.
Behind him another officer has his weapon when he crosses a busy intersection.
In the next video, Barranco was seen as he was running over the intersection, still holding his trimmer upright when the truck moves to block his way.
Then he threw himself into another lane and tried to open the car door before the agents deal with it. When he screamed and screamed, the cars Honk and one motorist shouted, “Leave him alone, bro.”
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