George Retes, a U.S. Army veteran and father of two, says he was wrongfully detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in July and is now challenging the federal government, claiming he is being targeted for speaking out about his experience.

Retes, who enlisted at 18 and served a tour in Iraq, was working as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo on July 10 when federal agents confronted him. According to Retes, officers broke his car window, deployed pepper spray, and placed him in handcuffs while he recorded the encounter. “They did not care what I had to tell them or what I had to say, or if I was a citizen, they just didn’t care,” Retes told KTLA.

He was arrested and held for three days at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles before being

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