A recent detention in Santa Fe, New Mexico is prompting renewed warnings from advocates who say Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are expanding quietly across the city, leaving immigrant residents increasingly fearful, as a new sprawling report from The New Mexican explains.
Before dawn in late October, Noe Isaac Armas Hernandez, 48, was walking near his midtown home on his way to work at a laundromat when two vehicles — one equipped with police lights — surrounded and arrested him, a relative said. Armas Hernandez, a native of El Salvador with no known criminal record in New Mexico, was deported six days later. "Immigration is in our neighborhoods. They are deporting our people," the relative said.
