Last June, Job Garcia — a U.S. citizen — was tackled to the ground by federal immigration agents while he was filming an ICE raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood. Yesterday, Garcia cast his ballot for the midterm elections at a church less than two miles from where he was arrested, overcoming his fears that ICE agents might show up at the polls.
“I’ve been looking forward to this day since what happened to me last year,” said Garcia, 38, who was detained for 25 hours after being arrested last summer. “While there isn’t an ICE policy directly on the ballot … It’s a very intentional vote that I’m making to hopefully shift the power over to individuals that are going to help make those changes [to immigration policy] possible.”
