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Distraught illegal migrant shrieks 'Help me, I have my papers' as she is arrested by ICE at Salt Lake City airport
Daily Mail UK ^ | Halloween 2025 | Joe Hutchison

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?

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; utah; waaambulance
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To: stanne
If ICE arrested her, she has no “papers”. She doesn’t even know what that means.

No, she's telling the truth, she has papers. If she read them they say, 'Final Order of Removal'.

See ya sister don't let the door hit you in the keyster.

21 posted on 10/31/2025 10:02:11 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Morgana

Disressing? Maybe for the lawbreaker. And crime supporters. Which, by the way, all dems should be tagged with for mid terms. Introducing you PRO-CRIME candidate...fill in the blank. Sounds like a plan to me.


22 posted on 10/31/2025 10:05:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Morgana

So she was distressed perhaps but am I supposed to be distressed because somebody started screaming when they were arrested?


23 posted on 10/31/2025 10:08:09 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: TimSkalaBim

😂. Sorta like the rehearsed “He’s touching me!!!!” cries you here at some rallies?


24 posted on 10/31/2025 10:08:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Morgana
They found her "papers"


25 posted on 10/31/2025 10:08:46 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Morgana

Well......... Bye


26 posted on 10/31/2025 10:09:01 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: Morgana

Some call it horrifying, some call it gratifying. 😏


27 posted on 10/31/2025 10:09:52 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: equaviator

28 posted on 10/31/2025 10:10:21 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Morgana

I can have sympathy for human suffering and I even recognize that America has always had a love-hate relationship with criminals, just take a look at our movies.
But when someone is arrested we have no idea what they did or if there could be some mistake. She was screaming “I am a human being”.

According to the article she received a final order to get out of here years ago. People also lie a lot. So just because she started screaming means nothing in the final disposition of this matter.

But why would I expect any intelligent analysis in a rag alleged newspaper.


29 posted on 10/31/2025 10:13:26 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Morgana

>> dragged away by plainclothes agents to the horror of eyewitnesses

I might have applauded! Further horrifying those eyewitnesses.


30 posted on 10/31/2025 10:14:23 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Morgana

“Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”


31 posted on 10/31/2025 10:15:03 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Morgana
'Help me, I have my papers' and they must be OK - they cost me $5,000!
32 posted on 10/31/2025 10:15:11 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Wuli

5 YEARS AGO-—PLENTY OF TIME TO CORRECT


33 posted on 10/31/2025 10:16:00 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Morgana

“I have my papers”

The “brown” version of

“I can’t breeve”


34 posted on 10/31/2025 10:22:40 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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To: Morgana

I have to confess to being neither “distressed” nor “horrified” by this footage


35 posted on 10/31/2025 10:24:32 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Morgana

She asked an airport worker to help with her immigration papers? Maybe ICE can help with her seating location.


36 posted on 10/31/2025 10:29:25 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: Morgana

37 posted on 10/31/2025 10:32:11 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: Morgana

They are led by crowd baiting liberals:

After the clip surfaced the mayor of Salt Lake City Erin Mendenhall released a statement saying the incident had a ‘major impact’ on the community.

She added: ‘I am left wondering and aching from the fear and pain these types of operations keep striking in my heart and the hearts of so many of us.

‘I do not know the reason for this detainment nor details about the individual, as we seldom do when ICE acts, but I do know that this incident has had a major impact on our community.

‘There is so much about ICE operations that create a sense of fear, and we know we’ll likely never receive answers to our many questions that surround them.

‘What I do know is that nothing about this incident, like so many ICE operations, makes me feel safer as an American.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15245983/Illegal-migrant-screams-arrested-ICE-Salt-Lake-City.html

Maybe she should tell the truth concerning actions by federal agents rather than just say they won’t tell her anything. That is a blatant lie.

wy69


38 posted on 10/31/2025 10:33:39 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: dfwgator; Lazamataz

MUCHO CALOR!

She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean
She was the best damn mujer that I ever seen
She had the sightless eyes, telling me no lies
Knocking me out with those Mexican thighs. 🎶

Taking more than her share, had me fighting for air
She told me to come, but I was already there
‘Cause the walls start shaking, the Earth was quaking
My mind was aching and we were making it. 🎵

And you shook me all night long
Yeah, you shook me all night long


39 posted on 10/31/2025 10:34:03 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Leaning Right

Was she rolling a doobie?


40 posted on 10/31/2025 10:34:17 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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