Frank Ray, a former cop turned country singer who released a song called “Hard to Be a Hero” for “Police Week” in May , is now speaking up against what he sees as the overzealous policing of immigrants.

In an Instagram post on Monday, he wrote that on Thanksgiving, Ray’s brother-in-law, identified by Newsweek as Juan Antonio Nevarez-Porras, who is Mexican and had just renewed his employment authorization, was detained by TSA in El Paso, Texas. Ray’s nephew, who is 16 and an American, had to wait for his dad while border patrol agents detained the man. “My brother-in-law was subsequently taken away to a facility under the custody of ICE ,” Ray wrote. “No warning. Just gone.”

Ray continued the story by detailing how his sister, waiting for her husband in Nashville, was unaware of

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