Overview
- Two Cordoban acrobats, Gustavo Romanello and Agustín Baccega, were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while traveling to Phoenix to attend a friend's funeral and are being held in separate Arizona detention centers.
- Agustín is detained at the Eloy Federal Contract Facility and Gustavo is held at the Florence Service Processing Center, which has complicated family access and legal coordination.
- Their attorney, Samuel Sketers, says ICE skipped a customary pre-transfer interview before referring the cases to immigration court and called that omission a serious procedural violation.
- ICE says both men exceeded authorized periods of stay and stressed that employment authorization permits let people work but do not confer immigration status or prevent arrest.
- Gustavo already has a hearing date scheduled and Agustín remains awaiting a determination, and the case highlights how detention and transfer practices can shape removal proceedings and family hardship.