Brooklyn deacon detained by ICE after leaving apartment, community says

"Community leaders said he was among a half dozen residents swept up in the morning operation that targeted an apartment building on Bay Ridge Parkway. "He lived here. He was just going to work," Bishop Erick Salgado said. "And they were waiting out there with a coffee, picking up everyone who was coming out of the building." A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to CBS News New York's request for comment on Ordonez's case."

"Councilwoman Susan Zhuang, who represents the district where this happened, said her office is trying to make sense of why the deacon was targeted. "The hand should be on criminals, but right now, the story we hear is our neighbors," she said. "It is not true that ICE is coming for people who have criminal records. They're coming after everyone," Salgado said."

"For months now, concerns over ICE activity have been growing in Bensonhurst, where immigrants make up more than half of the community. Community leaders said ICE has intensified operations in the last two weeks. "They go to the train station on New Utrecht and 18th Avenue, waiting at 6 o'clock in the morning and following a profile," Salgado said. "Those people, they want to follow the law," Zhuang said. "Now, no one knows what is the law.""

Deacon Sebastian Ordonez, a prominent Bensonhurst community leader for 17 years with no criminal record, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement early Thursday as he stepped out of his home. The operation targeted an apartment building on Bay Ridge Parkway and swept up half a dozen residents during the morning. Community leaders and elected officials expressed alarm and said ICE activity in Bensonhurst has intensified over the past two weeks. Leaders reported officers waiting at transit locations early in the morning and following a profile. Residents expressed confusion about who is being targeted and what constitutes enforcement priorities.

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