The video shows the moment Ice agents He broke the window of a car and the strength withdrew a man in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Monday. His lawyer says he is not the man that the agents were looking for.
Juan Francisco-Méndez, 29, has no criminal record and was waiting for his final documentation to solidify his state of asylum.
His lawyer told WBZ that federal agents took the wrong person, confusing his client with another person.
Case or error identity?
“They said they are looking for a certain individual, with a different name,” said immigration lawyer Ondine Galvez Sniffin. “I said that is not my client … I know the story of my client, that is not him.”
Francisco-Méndez’s wife, Marilu Domingo Ortiz, and the 9-year-old son are protected under asylum status after persecution in his country of origin in Guatemala.
Domingo Ortiz said it was scary to see the ice agents crush her husband’s window and forcible will grab her in front of her. “At that time I was very surprised, I knew what to do, what to think. She was there, just terrified,” said Domingo Ortiz, through a translator.
When the agents approached Francisco-Méndez in their car, they asked for a man named Antonio, someone who used to live in his building, according to his lawyer. Méndez told them it was good.
In a statement, an ICE spokesman said that Juan Francisco-Méndez “is an illegally present Guatemalan foreigner.”
The ice agent breaks the window with ax
The agents demanded that Francisco-Méndez leave the car. He said he was waiting for his lawyer, and that was when the video shows that an agent broke the window of his car.
Ondine Galvez sniffin 
Community activist Adrian Ventura said he saw that everything was developed. “They acted very violently,” he said through an interpreter. “I was there, that guy wore an ax, or a hammer and began to break the windows and it was as if there was an explosion.”
When Francisco-Méndez’s lawyer arrived on the scene, he was already under trial.
Sniffin says that it is a terrible false step of the agents who carried out the actions, and is now leaving the family with disseminated questions that leave without wires.
“I have no answer”
“She asked me when she will return home? And I have no answer for her,” Sniffin said.
Sniffin said he has been able to locate Francisco-Méndez, who is in an installation in Dover, New Hampshire. She has bone capable of collecting any information about the charges or a reason why she is still in the detention center.
“At this time, she wants it desperately at home … she is trying everything possible to be strong for her son because her son continues to ask where her father is, and is trying to be strong for her son, but she takes it out,” said Domingo, the tester.
ICE at the New Bedford trial
“Juan Francisco-Méndez, 29, is an illegally present Guatemalan foreigner who was arrested by Ice Boston in New Bedford, Massachusetts, April 14,” said an ICE spokesman in a statement to WBZ. “Duration The course of his trial, refused to comply with the instructions of the officers” and resisted the apprehension. “
“Competitive ice with the actions considered appropriate by the officers in the scene who are trained to use the minimum amount of strength to resolve the situation in a way that guarantees the success of the operation and prioritizes the security of our officers.”
Maryland’s woman stopped similarly
Last week, the video captured a Similar confrontation in MarylandWhen an ice agent crashed through the window of a car to stop a woman. Elsy Numi Berrios, 51, in custody in Westminster, Maryland outside or Baltimore.
When Berrios refused to leave his car, the agents broke the window of their car to unlock the vehicle before they deliver it. The video was captured by Berrios’ daughter.
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