Can't wait for ICE to be super-funded, because clearly there aren't enough asshole shitbags running around trying to fill quotas.
The baseball field in Riverside Park near 72nd Street and Youman Wilder. Photo 1: Google Maps. Photo 2: Courtesy of
www.westsiderag.com
After coaching baseball on the west side of Manhattan for more than 20 years, Youman Wilder says he had a first-of-a-kind experience at the end of last month.
Wilder was leading a group of 11 middle school and high school kids through a batting cage practice near 72nd Street in Riverside Park, when he had an unexpected run-in with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, according to the baseball coach.
“I go over quickly and the agents are asking the kids inappropriate things like where they are from, their country of origin, so I say, ‘whoa, whoa,’ and I tell the officers that their questions are inappropriate, and that I’m going to tell my kids not to answer them,” Wilder told the Rag.
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Wilder: I go over quickly and the agents are asking the kids inappropriate things like where they are from, their country of origin, so I say, ‘whoa, whoa,’ and I tell the officers that their questions are inappropriate, and that I’m going to tell my kids not to answer them.
WSR: How did the officers respond to that?
Wilder: The officers started talking to me about obstruction of justice, and I repeated that the kids don’t have to speak to them, and as the person in charge of them right now, I’m going to tell them not to speak to you. Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their
fifth and
fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.
