Federal agents wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests seized two men working as gardeners in a cul-de-sac in Long Beach’s University Park Estates neighborhood.
At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, according to neighbors, three employees of a gardening company had just started working when multiple black vehicles pulled into the street, blocking traffic and preventing the workers, as well as a city garbage truck, from leaving.
The driver of the garbage truck began honking, alerting the gardeners to the agents’ presence. One gardener put down his lawn equipment as federal agents handcuffed him and led him into the back of a Ford Expedition, according to neighbors and a video verified by the Long Beach Post.
Another gardener attempted to scale a nearby wall, but a group of armed federal agents, most of them masked, chased him, hauling him through the street and toward the van. Agents asked the man for his documents, and he produced an identification card and said he was born at Memorial, referring to MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center, and that he is a dual citizen. One agent said he would investigate that. Yet, five agents handcuffed him and placed him in the back of the car as an onlooker shouted, “Five guys for one guy?” adding, “I’m pretty sure he pays taxes, just like you and me.”…