I'm Aisha Roscoe and you're listening to the Sunday story from Up First, where we go beyond the news of the day to bring you one big story.

Since President Trump took office last year, the number of immigration and customs enforcement officers has more than doubled, according to the Department of Homeland Security in January. Funding for ICE has skyrocketed.

All of these new resources have been used to expand law enforcement activities targeting undocumented

people across the country. But lawful residents and American citizens are also increasingly getting caught up in these operations.

One of those people is Ben, a Minneapolis resident who asked that we only use his first name

because he worries the federal government will retaliate against him.

Back in late January, Ben was observing ice operations around the city, something he had

been doing for weeks at that point. Ben was on his way home when he received a message that

immigration agents had been spotted nearby. Ben and his wife Gabby decided to head to the

location. There were a lot of observers around. People were coming out of their houses. I got out of the car because I was like, you know, got to go film. When Ben and Gabby arrived, Ben stood at the side of the road and filmed the officers who had already gotten back inside their car. It looked like they were about to leave, but they stopped and got out of the car,

and that's when I got...

Body slammed? Yeah. It wasn't really a tackle. Yeah. It was more of a body slam. He picked

you up and slammed you down. In the video of the incident, you can see a masked federal

officer run at Ben and slam him to the ground. Ben was detained and held in custody for three hours.

Before officers released him, they fingerprinted him and took his photo. And then that's when the

DNA happened. An officer approached Ben with something that looked like a Q-tip and used it to swab

the inside of Ben's cheek to collect his saliva.

It was super casual.

It was just like, okay, yes, we're going to take this now.

And I was like, okay.

It all happened so fast, Ben didn't realize what was happening.

A few days after getting tackled, Ben found out that the encounter had left him with three

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