AM Dispatch: ICE and Border Patrol Agents Continue Raping and Beating Women
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WASHINGTON — The hearing is at 9 this morning in Hamilton County Municipal Court in Ohio for ICE agent Samuel Saxon, who has a medal from the Department of Homeland Security for exceptional leadership and a woman with bruises around her neck who won’t talk to police.
The medal came in 2016, under then-President Barack Obama. The bruises came December 5th, on Eden Avenue in Cincinnati’s Corryville neighborhood, where Saxon, 47, works as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent when he’s not allegedly putting household members in chokeholds.
Police have been to Saxon’s apartment 22 times in the past year and a half. Twenty-two times. That’s nearly twice a month. That’s a pattern you could set your calendar by.
On December 5th, someone finally called about strangulation. When Cincinnati police arrived, they found what cops always find in these cases: visible injuries, a victim who wouldn’t cooperate, and a witness who saw the whole thing. The witness talked. The victim didn’t. That’s how domestic violence works when the person with the badge is the one doing the choking.
Saxon pleaded not guilty to felonious assault, strangulation, and domestic violence. Judge Samantha Silverstein held him without bail on the felonious assault charge. The other charges got bonds—$10,000 and $5,000. This morning, they’ll decide if Saxon stays locked up or walks out with a receipt.
Down in Florida, there’s another ICE agent named Scott Thomas Deiseroth who got pulled over in the Keys in August with a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit and two endangered children in his car. During the arrest, Deiseroth questioned the deputy’s nationality. You can’t make this stuff up. ICE hasn’t fired him.
ICE apparently hasn’t fired Saxon, either. He’s still on the payroll, still getting his government check, still wearing the badge that gave him the authority to ask people for their papers while he was choking people at home.
At Saxon’s criminal hearing this morning, the medal Obama gave him hopefully from 2016 won’t be entered as evidence. The 22 police calls certainly will be. The bruises will be. The witness who saw what the victim won’t say, will be.
And Samuel Saxon, “exceptional leader”, will sit there and wait to see if the same system that gave him a badge will finally take it away.
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Why it matters: A federal agent tasked with immigration enforcement is being investigated as a serial rapist—and the FBI believes there are more victims. This is the workforce conducting Trump’s deportation operations.
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