‘We felt ambushed,’ man says after wife’s ICE detention led to hospitalization
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Earlier this month, Jamie Jimenez-Rosa and her family returned home to the U.S. after a vacation in Mexico when she was suddenly arrested by Border Patrol agents at Boston-Logan Airport. |
| 0:12.0 | Jimenez-Rosa, who has a green card, was held for 10 days and moved between multiple detention facilities from Massachusetts to Maine. |
| 0:20.0 | Her story has caught national attention |
| 0:22.3 | as one of many people with no violent criminal convictions caught up in the administration's |
| 0:27.8 | immigration crackdown. For more, I'm joined now by her husband, Marcel Rosa, and her lawyer, |
| 0:33.9 | Todd Palmerlo. Gentlemen, welcome to you both, and thank you for joining us. |
| 0:37.6 | Thank you very much for having us. |
| 0:38.7 | We greatly appreciate the opportunity to be heard here. |
| 0:41.2 | Marcel, I want to begin with you, and I'll just say we can't even imagine what you |
| 0:45.2 | and your family have been through this month, but just take me back to that day. |
| 0:49.5 | August 11th, you and Jamie and your three young daughters land home at the Boston airport. She's suddenly taken into custody. Tell me about that moment. |
| 0:58.0 | They took Jamie into a room by herself and a few minutes later. They opened up the door, asked me to go in the room. |
| 1:07.0 | I was with my kids. I told them I'm going to take my kids with me inside the room. |
| 1:11.6 | And that's when, once I walked into the room, that's when I noticed that something had just happened. |
| 1:17.6 | My wife, she was sitting down, sunk in the chair. |
| 1:21.6 | I just knew that there was no way that she would be able to come out that room, just based off the energy. There was only one officer that was really doing the talking. |
| 1:31.3 | He essentially said that she wasn't leaving. |
| 1:35.3 | I pleaded with them. I asked a series of questions. |
| 1:38.3 | What they were saying was very vague. |
| 1:41.3 | She just broke down crying. |
| 1:43.3 | Just the way the CBP officers was |
| 1:45.9 | treating the situation, I thought was inhumane. They was just, they was destroying my family. |
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