An Oregon woman who is a U.S. citizen was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for about seven hours last Monday after taking pictures of agents’ unmarked cars near a Gresham Chick-fil-A.

Berenice Garcia-Hernandez, 25, snapped into action after seeing a Facebook post alerting people to the agents’ presence near the fast-food chain. The person who sounded the social-media alarm said he had been too scared to get pictures of the agents’ license plates.

So Garcia-Hernandez headed to Chick-fil-A in her fiancé’s government-plated car, ordered a lemonade at the drive-thru and took pictures of the agents’ plates herself.

“It’s very inhumane what they’re doing right now,” she said of ICE activity in general. “It’s not a crime to take pictures or videos of them.”

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