The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) dropped a bombshell today, revealing that a 24-year-old Venezuelan man, Anthony Emmanuel Labrador-Sierra, had been living out a real-life version of 21 Jump Street – only instead of busting drug rings, he was apparently just trying to pass geometry.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced it has lodged a detainer for Labrador-Sierra, who was arrested on May 19 by the Perrysburg, Ohio, Police Department and charged with forgery.
His alleged crime? Posing as a fresh-faced 16-year-old to attend Perrysburg High School, presumably hoping to relive his glory days.
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“Anthony Emmanuel Labrador-Sierra is a 24-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela who has been posing as a teenager and attending Perrysburg High School in Ohio,” declared Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who sounded less amused and more genuinely disturbed by the whole ordeal. “Labrador was arrested and charged with forgery… for using fake documents to become enrolled in the high school.”
McLaughlin didn’t pull any punches, adding, “It is disturbing that a grown man would impersonate a teenager and infiltrate the lives of underage girls and boys to fool them into doing God knows what.”
While the specifics of “God knows what” remain unclear, one can only imagine the bewildered looks on actual teenagers’ faces as Labrador-Sierra tried to decipher TikTok dances or genuinely enjoyed cafeteria food.
Labrador-Sierra, who has reportedly been illegally present in the U.S. since March 24, 2020, now faces the rather adult consequences of his high school antics.
ICE’s detainer aims to ensure this “criminal illegal alien” is removed from the community.
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