ICE pushes beyond the U.S mainland into the Virgin Islands U.S territories - On March 19 masked agents from ICE and Border Patrol targeted multiple people with “cluster raid” style tactics in the parking lot of Jiffy Mart, a popular market on King Street in Christiansted, St. Croix.

The St. Thomas Source (online newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands) was unable to reach ICE’s public relations officer despite multiple messages and calls to the agency’s field office in San Juan, which also oversees the U.S. Virgin Islands.

When reached by phone Thursday afternoon, one employee said they didn’t know who would be able to answer questions and hung up the phone when asked about their own position at the agency.

In part of one video, first posted by the Virgin Islands Consortium, four agents can be seen subduing a man who was facedown on the pavement, and one agent appeared to have his knee on the man’s head and neck.

Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett confirmed an immigration enforcement action by border patrol agents with DHS:

“I am deeply concerned by these enforcement actions and the manner in which they were carried out,” she said.

“Regardless of immigration status, you have constitutional protections … I want to remind everyone in the community that in the United States, being present in the country without the appropriate documentation is a civil matter, not a criminal one.”

Sources: viconsortium.com @viconsortium, stthomassource.com @virginislandssource

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