"Staring at her hands, twisting her fingers, and bouncing her knee nervously, 13-year-old Danny recalled in a hollow voice the moment her father was snatched away by ICE on a Queens street. Her piercing screams, calling out for her father, were drowned out by her mother's tearful pleas to the feds that there was some misunderstanding. Her husband's case was still ongoing. Danny's family (their last name has been withheld by amNewYork, due to the sensitive nature of the pending case) had traveled to the US from Venezuela, a country riddled with violence yet Danny told this reporter that ICE's apprehension of her father has been the most traumatic moment of her life."
"The incident unfolded in Maspeth, Queens on Oct. 18, during which Danny's family headed out for a Saturday night dinner. Instead, ICE agents sprang out of nowhere and pulled a man into an unmarked vehicle in front of his weeping wife and child. Danny recalled riding with her mother and father in their car near the corner of 59th Street and 56th Avenue at around 5:40 p.m. that evening when her father noticed men taking photos of their vehicle."
Mirla cannot afford a lawyer to help with her husband's ongoing immigration case. On Oct. 18 in Maspeth, Queens, ICE agents detained a man in front of his wife and 13-year-old daughter as the family walked to dinner. Agents pulled the man into an unmarked vehicle while bystanders photographed their car and the mother tried to open the doors. Video provided to amNewYork shows armed officers shoving the mother during the arrest. The family came to the United States from Venezuela, and the daughter's traumatic reaction was immediate and severe.
Read at www.amny.com
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