US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake

Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming arrests of his co-workers in Alabama when officers arrested him

Authorities wrestled a US-born citizen to the ground, cuffed him and dismissed his so-called Real ID as fake" during an arrest operation targeting undocumented people on Wednesday under the direction of the Trump administration, according to a viral video and reporting by Telemundo.

Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was at his construction job in Foley, Alabama, when officials arrived to arrest workers there. Garcia Venegas - who was born in Florida to Mexican parents - began filming the arrests with his mobile phone before officials reportedly knocked the device out of his hand and tried to arrest him as well.