"On Tuesday, Flores sat down with the Bay Area News Group and detailed the terrifying morning Monday when he narrowly escaped arrest himself and filmed his wife who has a blood condition passing out as ICE agents handcuffed her. She remained at Stanford Medical Center Tuesday with federal agents blocking her door. His nephew was taken to a federal detention center in Bakersfield, he said. I'm just completely stressed and drained about it, Flores said."
"Flores and his wife came to California with 10-year tourist visas that expired two years ago, he said. They brought their three daughters here to give them a chance at a better education and join Bay Area relatives who are citizens. We haven't committed any crimes besides overextending the visa, not even a speeding ticket, he said of his whole family caught up in Monday's ordeal."
Two weeks before the arrests, two similar-looking men stopped at the house and asked for ID, prompting Ernesto Jasso to remain inside out of fear of deportation. ICE agents returned at 7:15 a.m. and arrested Jasso's 29-year-old son, Dario, as he climbed into his truck. Yenycey Rodriquez, a 47-year-old housekeeper with a chronic blood condition, fainted while being handcuffed; her husband Oscar Flores filmed the incident. Rodriquez remained at Stanford Medical Center with federal agents blocking her door, and a nephew was taken to a federal detention center in Bakersfield. The couple said they entered on now-expired 10-year tourist visas and denied committing crimes beyond overstaying.
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