Does a video of an ICE agent taking a U.S. citizen off a plane in Texas show a real incident? No, that's not true: The video was a scripted skit performed by actors, showing a person wearing a face covering and flashing a badge before removing a man from a plane. The TikTok account where it was originally posted features dozens of other similar videos often using the studio sets of a company called Network Media.
The claim appeared in a video uploaded on March 25, 2026, to the TikTok account @tonyandangel (archived here) with the following description:
ICE agent removes US citizen from airplane. CRAZY! ???? #ICE #Trump #TSA #flightattendant #america
tonyandangel on TikTok
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @tonyandangel on TikTok.)
This video shows a staged skit, not a real flight incident, of a person purporting to be an ICE agent removing a U.S. citizen from a plane in Texas. The TikTok account @tonyandangel creates fictional skits, many set on airplanes, often using a set that matches the cabin in this video.
The video opens with a chyron, "TTNZ," that imitates a news outlet. It shows a person wearing a bulletproof vest and a badge on a chain around their neck, with their face covered, asking for a passenger named Juan Garcia to identify himself. A flight attendant wearing sneakers, with no uniform bearing a discernible logo, points out a person in a seat. The video ends with the man on the floor in handcuffs, saying he is a U.S. citizen.
The interior of the airplane looks like one of the sets from Network Media, a company that rents out film sets (archived here) to content producers who publish similar scripted scenes. The design and layout of the seats with the headrests in the fake airplane shown in the video matches a set shown on Network Media's website (archived here):
(Image source: screenshot of Network Media website.)
Here are the seats in the video posted on TikTok:
(Image source: post by @tonyandangel on TikTok.)
The same set was used by a different influencer for a skit about an FBI agent on a plane. Lead Stories previously debunked other videos filmed on airplane sets here.
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) for reports of an ICE agent removing a U.S. citizen named Juan Garcia from a plane in Texas. Neither search returned any real news reports of such an incident.
