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It is utterly inevitable that when the U.S. government floods the streets with a new crop of hastily trained and prepared agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and give those people arbitrary quotas to achieve in meting out government brutality against illegal immigrants, that ordinary American citizens are going to get swept up into the net of pain. The killing of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good, which the DOJ refuses to even do the sham courtesy of pretending to investigate, is of course the most high-profile example to date, but the litany of U.S. citizens arrested as they go about their daily business—even without any connection to protests or anti-government demonstrations—continues to climb as well. There was the pair of citizens, for instance, who spent eight hours in detainment for daring to record ICE agents, who were reportedly offered money or government favors in exchange for the names of undocumented immigrants or protest organizers. And as of this weekend, there was also the U.S. citizen who was marched out of his front door in handcuffs, in his underwear, into the 10-degree winter weather, because ICE agents couldn’t be bothered to confirm his identity or allow him to put some clothing on before abducting him from his family. That man’s name is ChongLy or Chong Ly “Scott” Thao, a 56-year-old St. Paul resident who reportedly awakened from a nap to family members telling him that agents of ICE were in the process of breaking down the home’s front door. He was subsequently taken into immediate custody, handcuffed and loaded into an ICE vehicle, wearing only flip-flops and boxer shorts. The 60 seconds it would have taken to allow the naturalized U.S. citizen to put on a pair of clothes before heading to a presumed detainment facility was presumably too generous in the eyes of ICE—no time for trivialities when you have an arrest quota to meet, right? Thao’s family later said in a statement that the agents offered no explanation for why Thao was being taken, and that they had no interest in seeing the identification and proof of U.S. citizenship that family members attempted to show them. The agents would later demand Thao furnish these documents … after leaving the house where the documents were kept. “I was shaking,” Thao said to the Associated Press. “They didn’t show any warrant; they just broke down the door.” What, might you ask, was the DHS rationale for why agents had come to Thao’s house in the first place? The AP attributes this statement to DHS, likely from the mouth of professional liar and agency spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin: “The US citizen lives with these two convicted sex offenders at the site of the operation. The individual refused to be fingerprinted or facially ID’d. He matched the description of the targets.” Thao’s family, on the other hand, explained in their own Monday statement that “the only individuals residing at the home are Mr. Thao, his adult son, his daughter-in-law, and his young grandson. The family does not know the individuals referenced in DHS’s statement.” The AP’s perusal of the state sex offender registry backs up this statement, with no listings connected to Thao’s home address. Which leaves the obvious question of “What the hell is DHS talking about?” BREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao’s family has released a statement disputing DHS’s outrageous justification for his arrest. --> “He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation…[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references.” [image or embed] — Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) Jan 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM Seemingly in direct response to growing media attention on this particular case, and after initially refusing to detail to journalists who the “two convicted sex offenders” were that were being sought, the DHS abruptly reversed face on Tuesday and released two wanted posters specifically about the two men in question. Reuters rather…