During the afternoon of last Friday, April 4, a immigrant Salvadoran lived a moment of anguish and fear when he ended up violently by several agents of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICEfor its acronym in English), who carried out another migratory operation in the state of Maryland.
The detainee, subsequently identified as Elsy Berrios52, he was along with his minor daughter at the time of the arrest, which was registered through a video that went viral on social networks, taking into account that the agents broke him window to the vehicle in which the immigrant was guarding.
According to the recording, Elsy refused to get out of the car because she demanded the ICE agents to show her a court order to proceed with the arrest; However, despite not having a document signed by an American judge, immigration officials decided to force the woman by force.
“Tell me why you want to arrest me and show me the court order,” says Berríos in the video, to which one of the agents replies: “I’m not going to give you anything,” So quickly proceeded to break the glass on the driver’s side. Given this situation, the Salvadoran tried to keep calm with the aim of reassuring her daughter.
Controversial arrest of ICE
While the agents of the Imigration and Customs Service arrested Elsy Berríos in front of their minor daughter, the Salvadoran, who was visibly affected, said: “I don’t care if they send me back”so those were the last words he spoke before being captured by ICE.
The daughter, who cried uncontrolled Within the vehicle, he made the decision to upload the video to social networks, with the intention of exposing the new forms of arrest by immigration officials, who recently received the authorization to carry out migratory raids anywhere in the United States.
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Elsy’s arrest unleashed a wave of indignation In digital platforms, generating controversy between Internet users, mainly due to excessive use of force by authorities and attitude On the part of them, who refused to provide a court order, an essential document at the time of an arrest.
In addition to generating “the” abrupt way “in which they arrested the Salvadoran migrant, the recording also demonstrated the inflexibility On the part of ICE, because Berrios’ daughter explained to the agents that her mother was in a ongoing legal processbut the officers did not care at all.
David BerriosElsy’s eldest son spoke with the US media and told them that the family is sad For the situation: “All this is very painful Because we knew that my mother did not have an arrest warrant by migration and we bothers that they have not taught what he asked for, “he added
According to documents shown by David, his mother has permission to be able to work legally in the United States during 2025; However, the family is suspected that the authorities planned to arrest the second child De Elsy, who if he has an ICE capture order since January 2018.