Cada Tarde host on ICE detaining American citizens: “I voted three times for Trump, and I have all the moral right to make a criticism, because I have given him too much praise”
Agustin Acosta: “I didn't vote for that, nor conceive that an American citizen should be run over, have his rights violated, be dragged by the hair, be taken half naked to a police station when the temperature is zero degrees”
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From the January 20, 2026, edition of Actualidad Radio's Cada Tarde
AGUSTÍN ACOSTA [HOST]: Now, I'm going to strike a discordant note, because while I would not give President Trump an A or two A's, if it were a college or high school test. I would give him triple A's on solving the border problem. The lady who runs Homeland Security doesn't seem to understand what federal law looks like. And here in the United States, since the time of the founding fathers, the police must have probable cause for any detention, for any arrest, for anything.
They just took, a few days ago, an old man out of his house. He was wearing his underwear in his house, in one of these cities with snow, but with heat, he was in his underwear. The federal police arrived there, and he did not open the door because he was shouting, I am an American citizen. They kicked the door down, they took him out in his underwear, they took him to jail in his underwear, they didn't let him get dressed, and when they arrived at the police station, a short time later they realized that they had made a mistake, and that the man was an American, and that he was not the one they were looking for.
Here, all the precepts of probable cause have been violated at certain and specific times, where any of us can now be arrested, and until the authorities prove it, we are presumed innocent. People who are American citizens have been deported and then had to be sent back. This man has been arrested, and another person had their ribs broken. A U.S. citizen. I don't mind deporting all the criminals, all the undesirables. And if there are people who are illegal, but they are good people, who have behaved well, but the courts and the laws determine that they have to return to their countries, well, they have to return to their countries, because that is why we have a system of laws.
But I cannot accept, because I didn't vote for that, nor conceive that an American citizen should be run over, have his rights violated, be dragged by the hair, be taken half naked to a police station when the temperature is zero degrees, and then, that day, or three, or four days later, say, Oops, we made a mistake.
They had a man here for about a week in a center here in the south of the country, an American citizen. I didn't vote for that. And that, Mr. Trump has to correct it, because let me tell you, there has been a migration, and this is something that we have to address as well, because in this program we are not praise-mongers, and I voted three times for Trump, and I have all the moral right to make a criticism, because I have given him too much praise.
Here we have to see to it that laws are not violated, because tomorrow Mr. Trump leaves, tomorrow we all die of old age, and to our children, grandchildren or great-great-grandchildren, the only thing left is the American institutionality, the constitutional law that has to be respected, and has to be solidified, and we cannot fall into the false pretenses that the end justifies the means. No, sir. I voted for Trump three times. When he won the first time, when he lost to Biden, quote unquote, and when he won against Harris. I have voted for every Republican president from Reagan on down. And when I've had to criticize them, I criticize them, okay? And I'll vote for them again if they run again. But I think this is something that we have, especially Hispanics, because my instinct, my common sense, and my instinct, they can tell me that I am wrong, but my common sense and my instinct tell me that there is an element of racism in three or four people, and I am going to mention them. Stephen Miller, Mr. Homan, Mrs. Noem, and Mr. Deputy Director of the patrol, I think the last name is Bonino or something like that.