Immigrant advocates are expressing concern after a video began circulating on social media earlier this week that showed federal agents questioning and detaining a family at a popular swimming spot in Pope County.

In the video, officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement and the U.S. Forest Service can be seen approaching the family at Long Pool Recreation Area, a park on Big Piney Creek that is managed by the Forest Service. The video shows the agents checking people’s IDs, asking about one man’s green card, and detaining at least two men and forcing them into a white van.

AIRE Arkansas, an immigrant rights activist organization, wrote in a social media post that everyone in the video had legal status and the people detained were eventually released.

A woman in the

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