Jason Brian Gavidia is a proud American. He even has the first words to the Constitution—“We the people”—tattooed in large black lettering across his back.

He voted for President Donald Trump. Then, he was stopped by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And now he has changed his mind.

“I am American, bro!” Gavidia, 29, protested as two masked, rifle-toting immigration agents held him against the wall, asking for proof of his citizenship. The ICE agents had stopped him and his friend, Javier Ramirez, 32, another U.S. citizen, as they walked the streets of Montebello, a majority-Latino city east of Los Angeles.

“What hospital were you born?” one agent barked at Gavidia. “I don’t know, dawg!” he said. “East L.A., bro!” Ramirez recorded the altercation on his phone before Ramirez hims

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