"La Migra, La Migra": Woman Arrested After Threatening Latino Shoppers in Georgia Parking Lot

A parking lot dispute outside of City Farmer's Market in Marietta, Atlanta led to a violent confrontation that ended with the arrest of a woman who accused shoppers of being "illegal" and threatened them with calling "la migra," or ICE.

It all started with a crosswalk incident.

Yanirei Sandoval, a 39-year-old U.S. citizen of Peruvian descent, was out shopping with her mother and son when she saw a woman yelling racial slurs at another woman crossing the parking lot. Wanting to help, Sandoval calmly told the woman to deescalate and walked into the market. But the woman wasn't done.

"She's coming, she's coming," other shoppers warned Sandoval moments later. The woman—later identified as Nadege Ducrepin—had followed her into the store and was now screaming directly at her.

"You're a bean burrito-eating Mexican, you're an illegal," Ducrepin shouted. Sandoval kept her composure. "I told her, 'I'm not Mexican,'" she recounted in an interview with Telemundo.

However, events spiraled fast. A bystander began filming as Ducrepin doubled down, yelling, "Bring ICE too! I'm pretty sure this b***c is illegal and some other people in here are illegal!" The video, which has been posted online, has since gone viral, amassing millions of views.

"La migra, la migra, la migra!" Ducrepin shouted repeatedly, turning heads across the store.
Sandoval's young son stepped in and told Ducrepin, "Two wrongs don't make a right."
Ducrepin snapped back at him: "I don't give a f---. Mind your business, little boy."

Sandoval said it was one of the worst moments of the ordeal, not for her, but for her son, who later told her he couldn't sleep because he felt scared and powerless reliving the scene. "He told me he felt helpless not being able to protect me," Sandoval told Telemundo.

A security guard stood nearby but didn't intervene. A man who tried to help was also targeted by Ducrepin, who called him "MS-16" and hurled racist insults at him too.
Eventually, Marietta police identified Ducrepin as the aggressor. She now faces charges of disorderly conduct and making terroristic threats.

Sandoval said the incident has also motivated her to keep working towards her goal of becoming an immigration lawyer. The Peruvian mother is currently going to school for a psychology degree.

"There's a stereotype that every person that looks Hispanic or Latino is either Mexican, and as if they were just automatically an illegal immigrant," Sandoval told Atlanta News First. "I felt disrespected because just because I look a certain way doesn't mean that I'm not part of this country. I'm a U.S. citizen. My son is a U.S. citizen."