EVERETT, Wash. — An Everett woman says she recorded ICE agents abducting two men who were working on a construction project at her home on Monday morning.
“This was a construction company that’s been on my property for a couple of weeks now, putting in a fence,” said Jennifer Gordon.
Gordon says after the men had taken several measurements, they went to buy more supplies, but when they came back, they were confronted by several masked men.
Gordon’s video shows the men crying for help, and at one point, one man is thrown to the ground.
Gordon is heard repeatedly asking the masked men for their identification and for them to show a judicial warrant.
“It’s been difficult to kind of reflect on how other service, you know, public servants are choosing to act in this day and age,” said Gordon.
As of March 2026, it is illegal for law enforcement to hide their identity wearing masks, and though the masked men were wearing vests that said “police” on them, the Everett Police Department told KIRO 7 their officers were not involved in this incident.
Gordon says the masked men identified themselves as ICE agents and claim the men they were arresting were wanted for crimes in another country.
ICE would not share any details with KIRO 7.
According to the Deportation Data Project, ICE arrests across the country and in Washington surged this summer.
“Data show that the vast majority of the people being picked up have no criminal convictions or criminal history,” said Phill Neff, Lead Data Analyst for the Deportation Data Project.
Neff says the Deportation Data Project has filed hundreds of Freedom of Information Act Requests and has compiled ICE arrest data in this tracker on its website.
Gordon says one of the men in the video ran away but the other man was taken away to an unknown location.
Gordon cited social media videos from immigration lawyers and immigrants’ rights groups, such as the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, that gave her the knowledge on what to do if ICE arrests happen.
As a healthcare worker and Navy veteran, Gordon says she remains committed to being “a public servant who’s standing on the right side of history.”
“It’s one of my core principles that it’s every American’s duty to see something and say something and to be that active bystander and show solidarity with our neighbors and our communities, regardless of their status,” said Gordon.