(Adnkronos) – A right-wing Brazilian influencer who claimed that anti-immigrant operations only target “criminals” has been arrested by ICE agents in New Jersey. According to Brazilian media reports, picked up by the Guardian, Eustáquio da Silva Pena Júnior, who uses the name Junior Pena on social media, was arrested and transferred to the Newark detention center for failing to appear at a court hearing.
A supporter of Donald Trump and former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, Pena has lived in the United States since 2009 and uses his social networks to present the “reality in the United States” from an immigrant’s perspective. In one video, he urged Brazilian immigrants to remain calm because federal agents would only target “criminals, many of them.” “I support Donald Trump, I like him,” he stated in another video.
