One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said.
The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks.
“The horrors that this family has suffered should never be felt by a child in need of medical care.
They were granted parole status in the U.S. while they waited for their day in immigration court.
ICE data obtained by the Cato Institute show that more than 93% of immigrants arrested this fiscal year were never convicted of any violent offenses.
“Hundreds, if not thousands, of law-abiding noncitizens have been arrested in immigration courts in recent weeks, despite a federal court ruling that the new ICE courthouse arrest policy is unlawful and unconstitutional," she said.
Immigration courthouse arrests have prompted protests in Los Angeles, San Antonio, and across the country. »