Posted on 10/31/2025 9:33:42 AM PDT by Morgana
Distressing footage showed a female migrant scream 'Help me, I have my papers' as she was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at Salt Lake City airport.
Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, 39, was dragged away by plainclothes agents to the horror of eyewitnesses at the Utah travel hub on Wednesday.
Footage emerged of her arrest, with Leiva seen being grabbed her by the arms as she was placed in cuffs, pulling her up from the floor as she kicked out her legs.
She let out bloodcurdling cries as they did, shouting: 'Help me, help me, I have my papers. Help me please', it also sounded like she was shouting out for her son.
Travelers were seen looking on in horror as she was dragged away by the officers, one police officer stands between the crowd watching and the officers.
It is unclear why Leiva was at the airport and what triggered her arrest.
In a statement, ICE identified Leiva as being in the country illegally and said she was originally from El Salvador, having entered the US in 2007.
Leiva was targeted in what they described in a statement as a 'targeted enforcement operation' after being given a final order of removal in absentia in February of 2020.
The horrifying clip was captured by author Shannon Hale who shared it online and described what unfolded.
According to Hale, Leiva was dragged away just outside of the airport security line as onlookers.
She wrote: 'I hurried through the crowd and straight up to the commotion and asked an airport worker in uniform what was happening and why was no one helping her?
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Rule of Thumb: If you don’t want to be “dragged” by law enforcement, don’t resist arrest and cooperate.
She’s surprised that not everyone is against law enforcement.
If ICE arrested her, she has no “papers”. She doesn’t even know what that means
> ‘Help me, I have my papers’ <
Who knows what really happened here. But an immigrant wouldn’t lie about having the correct papers. Or would she?
🤔
She had her opportunity for “due process” (show up in court) in 2020, and chose not to; we guess she was hoping Myorkas would be in charge forever.
I feel so sorry for her really
“Distressing footage..”
No, not Distressing.....I think the word the author is struggling for is SATISFYING.
“dragged away by plainclothes agents to the horror of eyewitnesses...”
Good grief can this writer BE more dramatic? SMH
The idiot Author Shannon Hale asked “why was no one helping her?”
Shannon, she WAS being helped...by ICE. They are helping her become legal, either here or back in El Salvador.
ICE doesn’t just walk up and snatch random people.
(see how they do that?)
I am not distressed by this footage. I’ll even go out on a limb, and suggest there’s a good chance she’s associated in some way with shady characters or activities.
That sounds like a rehearsed line. I'm sure the tax-funded lawyers in the illegal alien racket have coached illegal aliens to say things like this, to make it sound like they are victims in nazi Germany. This article appears written to frame this situation exactly that way.
I’ll even go out on a limb,
Looking at her picture, I would suggest she not go out on any limbs.
“Papers” can be purchased on the street for a few hundred bucks. If her papers are genuine, they will be reviewed and she will be released. All she had to do was stay calm, mention the papers and wait her turn for the review.
Read through many of the comments. Daily Mail and this "illegal migrant" aren't getting cheers from most.....
She has been on the lam since 2020 when she was supposed to appear for due process. She is not only a criminal invader she has also been a fugitive for at least the last five years. Her time is up.
No sympathy. None at all.
“ I feel so sorry for her really”
Find out how much taxpayer resources she has used and abuse not including paying the ICE agents
I just walked away from a lab draw appointment the VA made for me fasting labs. 11 AM
I finally figured out in a crowd of 100 people I needed to pick a number. B78. They were on B25. People knitting, reading, they’d been there since 9 AM some of them
After hunting down a kind face behind plexiglass I learned “ah those numbers are for travel vouchers’
These guys are filing for $1.50 travel vouchers and spending half the day or more
Routinely
Patiently
So that this woman can pretend to have the right to come here and know nothing about our people who fought to protect and defend and build this country
Here’s what happened: “In a statement, ICE identified Leiva as being in the country illegally and said she was originally from El Salvador, having entered the US in 2007.”
“...to the horror of eyewitnesses...”
Horror???
The eyewitnesses were able to immediately perceive her criminal history, or lack therof, by her screaming? Because, of course, only not-guilty people scream that they are not guilty.
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