00:00Oland Fox 11, a father detained during a routine ICE check-in, but tonight he and his family are facing
00:06a painful uncertainty.
00:07We go live to Fox 11's Christy Fajardo in Van Nuys with details. Christy.
00:13Christy, a 46-year-old man from Northridge is in ICE custody tonight, being held in Atalanto for four weeks
00:23now and counting,
00:24despite the fact that his family says he actually won his immigration case.
00:28It's heart-wrenching to see my country do this to us.
00:34The Raudas family of Northridge thought their battles with ICE ended in 2023,
00:38when a judge ruled the government could not deport Miguel Raudas to Nicaragua.
00:43But now they say the Trump administration has detained him and is trying to send him to a third country.
00:49It's tearing families apart for no reason.
00:54Miguel is not undocumented here.
00:57We already went through the whole process.
01:00We won his case and they still detained him.
01:05The family tells us in 2016, Raudas was detained by ICE for six months,
01:10leaving his American-born wife to give birth to their twins without him.
01:14He was released on bond and fought a removal order for seven years,
01:18until a judge agreed he would face political persecution in Nicaragua.
01:22But on May 29th, the 46-year-old was detained again at an immigration check-in and hasn't seen his
01:29daughters since.
01:30But they do not understand what's going on with our government or this administration.
01:36They're nine years old.
01:37Raudas' attorney says ICE is arguing that although they can't deport him to Nicaragua,
01:41they can't send him to a third country, a move that is usually only reserved for severe criminals.
01:47They tell us Raudas did have a DUI in 2015, but that it hasn't been brought up in this case,
01:53and he has no other criminal history.
01:56One of the big concerns with the third country removals is that that third country would just turn around
02:03and remove them to their country of origin,
02:06where the judge has found that it's more likely than not that they will suffer persecution or torture.
02:12The attorney says Raudas is being held illegally.
02:16She also says that a judge has temporarily barred the government from sending him out of California,
02:23and she hopes a judge will make that order permanent.
02:26We did reach out to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for comment.
02:29We were asked for more information and are still waiting to hear back.
02:33Live in Van Nuys, Christy Fajardo, Fox 11 News.
