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U.S. Citizens Recount Being Detained By ICE During Minnesota Operation
Luis Escoto and their son, Alex, said there was no reason for ICE to randomly check her immigration status other than the color of her skin.
January 14, 2026
Sunday afternoon, Luis Escoto realized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were surrounding his wife's car.
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With the images of an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Good in her car fresh in his head, he rushed outside with her passport card, knowing that the woman ICE had surrounded was born in the United States.
"They're going to break the window, drag her out, put her in a snowbank, all of those things came to my mind," Luis Escoto said.
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