Two weeks before the arrests, two similar-looking men stopped at the house and asked for ID, prompting Ernesto Jasso to remain inside out of fear of deportation. ICE agents returned at 7:15 a.m. and arrested Jasso's 29-year-old son, Dario, as he climbed into his truck. Yenycey Rodriquez, a 47-year-old housekeeper with a chronic blood condition, fainted while being handcuffed; her husband Oscar Flores filmed the incident. Rodriquez remained at Stanford Medical Center with federal agents blocking her door, and a nephew was taken to a federal detention center in Bakersfield. The couple said they entered on now-expired 10-year tourist visas and denied committing crimes beyond overstaying.
On Tuesday, Flores sat down with the Bay Area News Group and detailed the terrifying morning Monday when he narrowly escaped arrest himself and filmed his wife who has a blood condition passing out as ICE agents handcuffed her. She remained at Stanford Medical Center Tuesday with federal agents blocking her door. His nephew was taken to a federal detention center in Bakersfield, he said. I'm just completely stressed and drained about it, Flores said.
Flores and his wife came to California with 10-year tourist visas that expired two years ago, he said. They brought their three daughters here to give them a chance at a better education and join Bay Area relatives who are citizens. We haven't committed any crimes besides overextending the visa, not even a speeding ticket, he said of his whole family caught up in Monday's ordeal.
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