Pride and Pain: Father’s Day in ICE detention in New Mexico

Two volunteers with Immigration Law Lab discuss the men they encountered being held by ICE at Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico.

By: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael Messner

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: June 17, 2026

Words: 1,136

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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The man wept silently, shutting his eyes and leaning against the wall as we spoke with him in the visitors’ room of a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. He had decided to return to Ecuador, he told us, because roofing work had ground to a halt in the Minneapolis winter — and to avoid the escalating ICE round-ups. Yet as he tried to buy his air ticket, ICE nabbed him. They kicked him, …

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