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ICE agent threatens to check deputy’s status during DUI stop, asks if he’s Haitian

Scott Deiseroth told a Florida sheriff’s deputy that he would have his colleague deported if “not legit,” body camera video shows.

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During a DUI arrest on Aug. 13, ICE agent Scott Deiseroth threatened to check the immigration status of Monroe Country sheriff's deputy Markens Dorestant. (Video: Mariana Trujillo Valdes/The Washington Post)
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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent arrested in August on suspicion of driving drunk questioned the nationality of a sheriff’s deputy and threatened to check the deputy’s immigration status, according to newly released body-camera footage.

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