ICE Allegedly Assaulted and Locked Up Immigration Attorney Trying to Reunite Mother and Child

An immigration attorney says she was locked up and left with a broken foot after being “knocked to the ground and bloodied” by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer while trying to reunite a three-year-old child with his mother at a facility in Kansas City, according to a Tuesday report from the Daily Beast.

As the site’s Betsy Woodruff reported:

Andrea Martinez told The Daily Beast she was dropping off a 3-year-old immigrant at an ICE facility to be reunited with his mother before they are to be deported to Honduras. Martinez said she was accompanying the boy, his pregnant mother, and his father into an ICE field office but Martinez was denied access. That’s when Martinez said she was “knocked to the ground and bloodied” by an ICE officer.

Martinez said she was accompanying the young boy, his pregnant mother, and her partner to the ICE facility, expecting them to reunited the child with his mother, all three of whom are undocumented. As local news affiliate KCTV reported, the woman, whom the station identified as Kenia Bautista, hadn’t seen her son Noah in more than a month when they were finally reunited early Tuesday morning. Bautista, who is reportedly six months pregnant, fled her native Honduras to escape an abusive relationship, where she said she feared for the lives of her and her son. Now, they’ll be deported, as domestic violence is no longer grounds for asylum.