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Maanvi Singh and Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis

‘I couldn’t save my husband’: the Minnesota families ripped apart by ICE

Ice Minnesota United States Immigration
Composite picture of a younger Hispanic couple and an older Hispanic couple.
Daisy Martinez and her husband, Tomas Martinez Gregorio, who was detained by ICE; Paulo Sosa Garcia and his wife, Ramona Cecilia Silva, who were also detained by ICE. Composite: Obtained by the Guardian

Paulo Sosa Garcia and Ramona Cecilia Silva were heading to work in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, on Monday morning when federal immigration agents pulled them over and arrested them. By the next morning, they were detained in El Paso, Texas.

Tomas Martinez Gregorio was driving his wife, Daisy Martinez, and their six-year-old son, Jayren, to a hospital in Brooklyn Park when federal agents pulled them over and took Gregorio. Jayren never made it to his tonsillectomy appointment.

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