In January, as the Trump administration launched an immigration crackdown in Maine, Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was intercepted on his way to work. The civil engineer from Colombia told officers he had a visa through his employer, but the immigration agents who arrested him did not seem to care. According to the federal lawsuit he later filed against them, they smashed his window, dragged him out of his car while pointing a Taser at him, cuffed him, forced him into the back of an unmarked SUV and drove him across state lines.
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