ICE detains a pro-Trump Brazilian ‘influencer’ who supports immigration repression: “Those detained are criminals”

And all this after using their social networks to ensure that Only “delinquents and criminals” and people in an irregular situation were targets of deportation or detention of the immigration policy of the US president.

Júnior Pena, whose full name is Eustáquio da Silva Pena Júnior, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last Saturday, as confirmed by the Brazilian newspaper Brazilian Times.

This medium reveals that Pena was arrested for and administrative problem related to the immigration department.

His lawyer, according to that newspaperis trying to resolve the situation and prevent his client from being transferred to another state or to an immigration detention center.

It is influencer He has more than 1.3 million followers on TikTok and almost half a million on Instagram. In their networks describes what his reality is like in the United States as an immigrantwhere it arrived in 2009 from the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, in the southeast of the country.

“I wanted to tell you not to be so afraid, there are many people scared. There are many influencers that sow fear among immigrants without having proof that someone has been deported,” he points out online in a message in which asks them to calm down and not “despair” after the arrest of several Brazilians in recent weeks.

“They are all criminals. All of them,” he came to say. Days later he was detained by ICE agents.

However, in recent videos, the influencer criticized ICE for carrying out “inhuman actions” and admitted that it is difficult to believe in the “American dream.”