Durango Father and Children Detained by ICE Choose Voluntary Return to Colombia

Overview

• Advocates say Fernando Jaramillo-Solano and his 12- and 15-year-old children signed voluntary departure papers because detention caused severe trauma.
• ICE’s detainee locator shows the father and children are still held in Dilley, Texas, and it is unclear when they will be released or removed.
• A senior ICE official testified in Denver that agents were seeking someone else when they stopped the family on Oct. 27 and arrested them on their way to school.
• Jaramillo-Solano’s wife, Estella Patiño, alleges an agent inappropriately touched their daughter and beat their son during the arrest; ICE has not responded to the claims.
• The arrests prompted large protests in Durango and a Colorado Bureau of Investigation probe into use-of-force, as Sen. John Hickenlooper reports federal officials have refused to release the family and calls for transparency.