Published on August 14, 2025
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On Mother's Day in the Boston suburbs, ICE and FBI officers stopped a family on their way to church, threatening Daniel Flores-Martinez with what the family and a bystander believe was a gun. His three children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car. Agents broke the window, forced Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him roughly to the ground.
The incident was captured by then-high school student Kenneth Santizo, who was nearby waiting for his bus. It was a "really emotional scene," Santizo said.
ProPublica documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests - a tactic experts and former ICE insiders say was rarely used before President Donald Trump took office in January.
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