Outside an indescribable building in the center of Manhattan, Ambar was pleading with God and immigration authorities that her husband Jaen would not come out through the doors of Elk Street facilities with wives.
“It’s the only thing I ask God and to have mercy on their family. I have no one else. I am alone with my daughter, I don’t want to separate from him,” Ambar News told Ambar with tears while his daughter Aranza remained distracted in an iPad.
But their prayers were not answered. That afternoon, Jaen and two other men were brought outside by masked agents in plains and quickly passed to unmarked vehicles, with Ambar crying and making a last plea. Aranza, 12, tried to overcome the agents to prevent him from guiding him to the vehicles, the tears ran on his face.
ABC News observed emotional moments as an uncontrollably anguished amber that threw himself to the ground pleading that her husband was released.
A woman cries while waiting for her husband during an intensive office of the supervision appearance program on June 4, 2025 in New York City.
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Masked people did not answer multiple questions asked by ABC News about which agency they belonged to, why they were covering their faces and what authority was being invoked to stop men. But Jaen’s lawyer, Margaret Cargioli, says that her arrest follows a growing pattern of migrants arrested during records with the National Security Department and that is quickly sported under the extraction issued.
The DHS did not immediately respond to the request for comments from ABC News.
In 2023, ABC News conducted an interview sitting with the Colombian-Venezuelan family on its crying meeting after being separated on the border by US authorities in Texas. Jaen, Ambar and Aranza made the dangerous trip from Colombia in the hope of seeking asylum in the United States.
“[It was] Traumatic, “Jaen said during the interview.” It was a risky decision. We knew we had someone to take care of, our daughter. As a family, we felt that we had no choice. “
Once they arrived at the border, the family said they were separated and were placed in different types of elimination procedures. Ambar and his daughter said that they were finally released and placed on a bus to Los Angeles, financed by the Lone Star operation of the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott.
A woman cries after her husband is arrested by federal agents escort after leaving an office of the intensive supervision appearance on June 4, 2025 in New York City.
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Jaen received an elimination order under the accelerated removal process, but the Cargioli and other lawyers with the Immigrant Defenders Law Center could successfully challenge the separation and was released in humanitarian probation for a year.
Cargioli says that Jaen requested asylum, a renewal of probation and a suspension of elimination, but all are pending.
Jaen was scheduled for a record on June 16 as part of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP), an alternative to the ICE detention program, but it was unexpectedly told to enter June 3 or 4, ABC News said.
That raised the main red flags for his legal team, which has been monitoring incidents of the Trump administration stopping migrants in the interior of the country and placing them in “Extraction issued.” The process allows the government to eliminate migrants simplified without demanding, in some cases, to go before a judge.
According to the Biden Administration, the process was applied to migrants who had entered the United States within 14 days and within 100 miles of the border. According to the Trump administration, it has expanded to apply to migrants anywhere in the interior that they have arrived within two years.
Jaen and his family entered the United States on June 4, 2023, exactly two years before their last detention, which led Cargioli to fear that they are in the extraction issued. Despite asking ISAP’s officers where he was going to be arrested, and if it was through accelerated elimination, the lawyer says he has not received an answer.
A child tries to hug his father when he is escorted by federal agents with other detainees to vehicles after leaving an office of the intensive supervision appearance, June 4, 2025 in New York City.
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Jaen spoke with Ambar by phone after his arrest and said he did not know where he was, but that he was stopped in a close installation to where he was arrested, said Ambar.
Ambar and Aranza have an asylum audience scheduled for June 2028. Cargioli believes that Jaen would be with his family if they had not been separated at the border.
Federal agents accompany the detainees to vehicles after leaving an intensive office of the supervision appearance program, June 4, 2025 in New York City.
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“If he had not been separated from his family at that stage and put himself in accelerated extraction, he would have his immigration case in New York, in the Immigration Court with her, with both,” he told ABC News.
ISAP records are carried out through a government contractor called BI Incorchad, according to DHS reports. Jaen has been regularly registering at Elk Street’s office since his initial arrest, said Ambar.
Families with loved ones that review in stand out of installation in the hope that they are not arrested. On Wednesday, ABC News saw a woman crying with joy when a relative and her baby came out without wives in sight. Another woman was surprised to see that her mother was quickly taken to one of the vehicles waiting outside the building.
“Mom, what happened, what is this?” Asked the woman. The masked agents did not answer their repeated questions about why their mother was being arrested.
“I don’t understand,” the woman shouted. “She did nothing. She has a work card.”
“Who do we talk to … what is happening,” he asked as the agents closed the car door and headed with their mother.
