Father and two children detained by ICE while driving to school, later granted voluntary departure to Colombia
Oct 28, 2025·Location: Durango, CO
Country of origin: 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.
Timeline
Sources
- CBS News
- ICE says father who was detained in Durango, Colorado was
- Hundreds protest outside ICE building in Durango after 2 children, father detained
coloradosun.com·Oct 28, 2025·archived copy
- Protest held at Durango ICE facility after agents detain father and 2 children
kkco11news.com·Oct 29, 2025·archived copy
- ‘Serve and protect’: Durango residents turn on police over supposed complicity with ICE
durangoherald.com·Oct 31, 2025·archived copy
- Protest erupts after ICE reportedly detains Durango students, parent
- 9news.com
- CourtListener
- Advocates: ICE kept Durango family in windowless room with only chips and water after mistaking father for someone else
coloradosun.com·Oct 31, 2025·archived copy
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