Independent - A mom and her kids were ‘snatched’ from their New York home by ICE. Advocates are now demanding their release

‘It is horrifying that these children and their mother were snatched from their home and disappeared,’ an advocate said

Kelly Rissman
in New York
Wednesday 02 April 2025 15:05 BST

A mother and her three children were “wrongfully” detained by immigration enforcement agents in New York and taken to a detention facility in Texas, a nonprofit says as it calls for their release.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the mother - whose birth country was not disclosed - and her kids, one of whom is in third grade, on March 27 while they were executing an arrest on a farm in Sackets Harbor, New York, according to the New York Immigration Coalition.

“When ICE was executing an arrest on a farm, they also entered a different home on the property, without a judicial warrant, and detained the mother and her three children,” the nonprofit said, noting that President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan lives in Sackets Harbor.

The family, who have not been publicly identified, have since been transported to ICE’s Karnes County Detention Facility in Texas. It’s not immediately clear why they were taken to Texas. The Independent has contacted ICE for more information.

“It is horrifying that these children and their mother were snatched from their home and disappeared,” Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the nonprofit, said in a statement. “This egregious action in Tom Homan’s backyard is an affront to American values, and to humanity in general.

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