The arrest of Albino Mandujano Eutimio by ICE has drastically affected his family's life, forcing his daughter to find immediate solutions to manage his work and responsibilities. Mandujano, who has lived and worked in the U.S. for over 25 years, faced detention while on his way to retrieve equipment from a job site, highlighting ICE's early morning tactics for detentions. His daughter remains hopeful about retaining his work clients, though the implications of his detention pose a significant threat to the business he has built over the years.
"They always get picked up on their way to work," said Elizabeth Ramirez Barragan, the immigration attorney representing the Oxnard worker and a California immigration legal fellow with the Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project, or MICOP. The morning Mandujano Eutimio was arrested, she said, was no accident, adding that "ICE usually conducts raids as early as 5 a.m. because they know that's when people are heading out to work."
Her father was detained in the morning, on his way to retrieve a machine he had left at a job site the day before. It was a strategy that ICE has used before.
"He called me from the detention center and asked if I could take my brothers, Nico and Lalo, to handle his jobs while he's detained," his daughter, Adriana Mandujano, told SFGATE.
"I don't think the reality of the detention has fully hit him yet," she said, adding that the disruption could mean losing the business he's spent years building.
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