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Javier Garcia arrived at an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office in Miramar with his grandchild and his friend’s suitcase in tow.Garcia said he had been called to bring luggage for one of two friends he said were detained there.“So he signed the papers,” Garcia said. “Somebody called me from here to bring the luggage. Maybe today he has to go back to our country, Chile.”Garcia said one of his friends was picked up during a traffic stop Monday.#VoicesfromtheField: Javier Garcia and his grandchild arrived at an ICE Field Office in Miramar, FL with his friend’s suitcase in tow.

He said two of his friends, one married to a U.S. Citizen, were detained following a traffic infraction. “Police stop and called ICE.” pic.twitter.com/9zi2RhsUPc— Christina Boomer Vazquez, M.S.

(@CBoomerVazquez) July 29, 2026“He stopped for a traffic situation,” Garcia said. “We think he was going too fast.”Garcia said police stopped his friend and called ICE. The other friend, Garcia said, is married to a U.S.

citizen.“He is married to an American person, has three American kids,” Garcia said. We don’t know nothing because when you come here, (you) don’t get any information.”Advocates say facility is overcrowdedCommunity activists who gathered at the facility said it is now operating as an overcrowded short-term detention facility.Yareliz Mendez Zamora, policy coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, asked, “How many children are going to sleep tonight not knowing or not if they are going to see their parents tomorrow, especially as (Temporary Protected Status) for Haitians comes to an end?”Garcia said his detained friends told him they had not been able to shower or brush their teeth.“They both say the only thing: No let take a shower,” Garcia said. I feel so dirty,’ because they had been coming from work, so don’t have clothes, don’t have showers.

All we can do is sit or sleep.”Earlier this month, Democratic U.S. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the Miramar facility “is supposed to be an administrative check-in facility but is now functioning as a short-term detention site, holding detainees in crowded areas for 72 hours or more without the same humane detention standards that other ICE facilities are required to meet.”According to a news release from Wasserman Schultz’s offi…