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Just steps outside the courtroom where Judge Joseph Y. Park was presiding over asylum cases on Friday morning, an ICE officer grabbed a Colombian man and slammed him against the wall, an eyewitness said and multiple sources confirmed to Mission Local . Other ICE agents moved in to handcuff the man, who had just finished his asylum hearing, when suddenly the arrest was called off – ICE had the wrong person.

After the incident, the man walked free to his awaiting family and the ICE agents remained outside of the courtroom where they apprehended a different Col

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