Video Shows ICE Separating Family During Arrest In Minneapolis, Despite Wife's Pleas To Be Deported Together

CBS Minnesota

January 28, 2026 / 8:07 AM CST

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests are still happening in Twin Cities neighborhoods, even with word of a rollback. New video shows the emotional scene as agents separated a family despite one woman's pleas to be deported together.

Video from a parking lot in northeast Minneapolis shows federal agents pounding on a car window, then taking the man inside into handcuffs. A second man was also arrested.

Jenny was holding her daughter in the backseat of their vehicle as federal agents detained her husband and her cousin. She says both are undocumented and from Ecuador.

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