
A seasoned IT professional was handcuffed and taken into immigration custody at the very facility he was contracted to assist, turning a routine technical call into a stark illustration of deep fissures in U.S. immigration enforcement and border agency protocols.
Angel Camacho, a 43-year-old Venezuelan systems engineer with a master's degree in telecommunications, arrived at the U.S. Border Patrol station in Dania Beach, Florida, expecting to perform a routine technical site survey for a new intercom system when he was immediately detained by agents, court records and interviews show.