This past Monday morning, an Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE ) raid was conducted with the assistance of Prince William County authorities. According to John Steinbach of Mexicanos Sin Fronteras,“This raid has only served to inflame and intensify the fear in the Latino community.” The thirty four families impacted by the raid have been desperate trying to locate the husbands, brothers and sons who left for work in the morning and never returned. Calls to ICE generated little information that could be of use to the families.

That very day men were shipped out to detention facilities in New York State and throughout Virginia before they even had a chance to contact family members.