Unidentified federal agents entered a Charlotte home without a warrant while seeking a different undocumented person. Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla told the agents the target no longer lived there. Allison called her mother, Keily Chinchilla-Alegria, who returned from work and was detained along with Allison and Allison's 17-year-old brother while two younger boys were left with neighbors. Authorities transported the three to a detention facility and repeatedly berated Keily, telling her the family should self-deport to Mexico despite her Honduran nationality. Allison, who had no apparent criminal record and recent nursing training, was formally processed into detention and suffered a panic attack.
In late February, in Charlotte, North Carolina, unidentified federal agents burst into a home, without a warrant in hand, apparently looking for an undocumented immigrant whom they had on their snatch list. He had recently moved into another apartment in the building, and 20-year-old Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla, the oldest of four siblings in the home, told the agents that he was no longer there.
As the agents searched the house, Allison called her mother and asked her to hurry home from her nearby job on a construction site. A few minutes later, her mother, Keily Chinchilla-Alegria, who had fled Honduras with Allison and a son more than a decade earlier, arrived back at the house. The agents were still there. Instead of leaving to follow through on their original pursuit, the agents turned their attention on Keily and her children.
They took Keily, Allison, and Allison's 17-year-old brother into custody and left the two younger boys-one of whom is autistic-with neighbors. Then, they sped off to a local detention facility. Over the next few hours, the agents repeatedly berated Keily, who was told, she has said on Facebook and other media, that she, her two non-citizen children, and her two US citizen children, should all self-deport to Mexico.
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