“It’s stressful. We haven’t been able to sleep. My children haven’t been able to eat well, either,” said Roberto Reyes, who along with his family remains locked inside his home in Fontana, California, after narrowly evading immigration agents who were about to arrest him.
“I’m a bit frustrated. We’ve lost our jobs. We haven’t had anything to eat, and we haven’t bought any food because they (the ICE agents) are waiting outside for us,” he said.
Reyes says two supposed ICE officers intercepted him as he was driving his pickup and rammed him to force him to pull over. The father says he panicked, fled and managed to lock himself inside his home.
ICE says Reyes has a criminal record. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Nicaraguan is a dangerous offender for allegedly committing an armed robbery.
The Central American man, who has a deportation order, maintains that the claim is false and that a judge had dismissed the charges after he spent several days in jail following a dispute with a neighbor.
