‘Have Mercy’: The family begs as a migrant captured on the Routine DHS check-in
Outside a building that is not striking in the center of Manhattan City, Ambar begged God and the Immigration authority that her husband Jaen would not come out of the door of the Elk Street facility with handcuffs.
“That is the only thing that I ask from God and them, has mercy for his family. I don’t have someone else. I am alone with my daughter, I do not want to separate from him,” Ambar told ABC News with tears flowing when his daughter Aranza remained disturbed in an iPad.
But the prayer was not answered. That afternoon, Jaen and two other men were taken outside by masked agents as high and quickly drove to vehicles that were not marked, with Ambar lamenting and making the last request. Aranza, 12, tried to pass through the agents to prevent them guiding it towards the vehicle, tears flowed on his face.
ABC News observes when emotional when Ambar is uncontrolled, making her beg her husband released.
A woman cried when she waited for her husband during the intensive supervisory performance program on June 4, 2025 in New York City.
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Masked people do not respond to many questions asked by ABC News about what agents they have, why they cover their faces, and which authority is called to hold men. But Jaen’s lawyer, Margaret Cargioli, said his detention followed the developing migrant pattern that was held during check-in with the Department of Domestic Security and was quickly deported under the accelerated transfer.
DHS did not immediately respond to ABC News comments requests.
In 2023, ABC News conducted an interview sitting with the Colombia-Genezuela family about their crying reunion after being separated at the border by US authorities in Texas. Jaen, Ambar and Aranza traveled dangerous from Colombia hoping to find asylum in the US
“[It was] Trauma, “Jaen said during the interview.” That is a risky decision. We know we have someone to take care of, our daughter. As a family, we feel we have no other choice. “
Once they reach the border, the family says they are separated and placed in various types of transfer processes. Ambar and his daughter said they were finally released and placed on the bus to Los Angeles, which was funded by Operation Lone Star from the Governor Texas Greg Abbott.
A woman cried after her husband was detained by a federal escort agent after leaving the intensive supervisory performance program on June 4, 2025 in New York City.
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Jaen issued a transfer order under the accelerated transfer process, but Cargioli and other lawyers with the legal center of immigrant defenders could succeed in challenging the separation and he was released by the acquisition of humanitarian parole for one year.
Cargioli said Jaen had submitted a petition for asylum, renewal of parole and delay of transfer but all of them were delayed.
Jaen is scheduled for check-in on June 16 as part of the Intensive Supervision Appearance (Supplies) program from the detention program run by ICE-but unexpectedly told to enter on 3 or 4 June, Ambar told ABC News.
It was flying a large red flag for its legal team, which had monitored the increase in the Trump administrative incident that arrested migrants in the interior of the country and placed them in “accelerated transfer.” This process allows the government to remove migrants efficiently without requiring them, in some cases, to be submitted to the judge.
Under the Biden government, the process applies to migrants that have entered the US within 14 days and within 100 miles from the border. Under Trump’s government, it has been expanded to apply to migrants anywhere in the interior that has arrived in two years.
Jaen and his family entered the United States on June 4, 2023, exactly two years before his latest detention, made Cargioli afraid he was placed in accelerated transfer. Despite asking the suction officer where he would be detained, and if it was through accelerated transfer, the lawyer said he had not received an answer.
A child tried to embrace his father because he was escorted by a federal agent with other prisoners to the vehicle after leaving the Intensive Supervisory Appearance Program Office, 4 June 2025 in New York City.
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Jaen spoke with Ambar on the phone after his detention and said he did not know where he was, but he was detained in a facility close to where he was detained, said Ambar.
Ambar and Aranza have a Suka Session Scheduled for June 2028. Cargioli believes Jaen will be with his family if they are not separated on the border.
The federal agent escorted detainees to the vehicle after leaving the Intensive Supervisory Appearance Program Office, June 4, 2025 in New York City.
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“If he is not separated from his family at that stage and put into an accelerated transfer, he will do his case in immigration in New York, in the immigration court with him, with them both,” he told ABC News.
The suction check-in is carried out through a government contractor called BI Incorporated, according to the DHS report. Jaen has regularly checked at the Elk Street office since its initial detention, said Ambar.
Families with loved ones check the holder outside the facility in the hope that they will not be detained. On Wednesday, ABC News saw a woman crying happily when a relative and her baby walked out without the visible handcuffs. Another woman was surprised to see her mother quickly taken to one of the vehicles waiting outside the building.
“Ma’am what happened, what is this,” the woman asked. Masked agents did not respond to his repeated questions about why his mother was arrested.
“I don’t understand,” the woman shouted. “He didn’t do anything. He has a work card.”
“With whom we are talking … what is happening,” he asked when the agents closed the car door and went with his mother.
