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Father and two children detained by ICE while driving to school, later granted voluntary departure to Colombia

Oct 27, 2025 · Durango, CO, Colombia

Father and two children detained by ICE while driving to school, later granted voluntary departure to Colombia

Fernando Jaramillo Solano, an asylum-seeker from Colombia, and his two children—12-year-old Jana Michel Jaramillo Patiño and 15-year-old Kewin Daniel Patiño Bustamante—were detained by ICE agents on October 27 while he was driving them to school near a mobile home park in Durango, Colorado. The family had lived in Colorado for more than 18 months with an active asylum case and no criminal record. Immigration officials later admitted during a federal court hearing that Jaramillo Solano was not their intended target. The family was separated from the children's mother, Estela Patiño, who remains in Durango. On October 28, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the ICE field office demanding their release; ICE agents in tactical gear used pepper spray and rubber bullets against demonstrators, breaking through a human chain protesters had formed. The family was subsequently granted voluntary departure, with ICE facilitating their return to Colombia.

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Oct 28, 2025Hundreds of protesters gathered outside ICE field office; ICE agents used pepper spray and rubber bullets against demonstrators
Oct 28, 2025Family granted voluntary departure; ICE to facilitate their return to Colombia
Oct 27, 2025Fernando Jaramillo Solano and his two children detained by ICE while driving to school in Durango; immigration officials later admitted he was not their intended target

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