Overview
- On Sept. 24 in Alamosa, Colorado, ICE and Border Patrol agents boxed in a family car and shattered a window with a baby inside before arresting José Aguilera-Bautista, an encounter captured on video.
- Aguilera-Bautista was transferred within Colorado and deported to Mexico on Sept. 30, reportedly hours before a scheduled meeting with his attorney.
- ICE says the driver failed to stop for police vehicles or red lights and that agents were forced to break the window, adding it provided a copy of the detention order.
- The family says they were trailed by unmarked cars, were not shown a judge-signed warrant at the scene, and report seven traffic stops in six months; coverage notes no criminal record beyond traffic offenses.
- ACLU Colorado’s legal director and an immigration attorney condemned the tactics as disproportionate and dangerous, as separate reporting describes rising ICE arrests at Colorado courthouses and concerns about detention conditions.