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Chelsea, MA video of window violations against the immigration NBC Boston

Read the original version of this story in Spanish about Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra / Lea la Versión Original de Esta Historia en Español en Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra.

The federal immigration officials were seen as she broke the window of an SUV, threw a man into the ground and captivated him on Sunday, Mother's Day, after handcuffs to the church in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

It is one of many obvious ice operations that have controversated in the Boston area in the past few weeks. Last month, the agents in New Bedford, Massachusetts, were broken a car window before taking a man in custody.

After the incident on Sunday, the family left the church when several vehicles from the federal authority caught them at the border between Everett and Chelsea, as can be seen from the incident shared with Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra. After a few minutes of the argument and refused to roll down her window, the window broke to remove the man out of the car.



Kennet Santizo

Kennet Santizo

Stills from video, in which federal agents were recorded on Sunday, May 11, 2025, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

After removing the man out of the car, the agents threw him to the ground and captivated him with handcuffs. The rest of his family, including his wife, children and his grandmother, were in the vehicle.

With the agents above him the man was heard why they arrested him and claimed that he was not resisted.

“This is abuse, a misuse of rights,” said Mario Meléndez, a resident, in Spanish. “You violate the law, just like in your house, because you are in your car for which he paid for, and you want to injure your rights because you are inside and the person does not want to open the door. You have to respect this right.”

Telemundo New England and NBC10 Boston contacted ICE for a comment on this process, but have not received an answer.

Kennet Santizo, who recorded the film material, said Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra that he heard the mother screaming: “He has his papers, he has his license!”

Santizo said that an officer quickly pulled out his gun, “and I was afraid that the weapon was on his face and then he broke the window.”

The family was silent in their vehicle after immigrants were widespread without papers, but residents and council members say that federal agents continue to violate the law.

“Immigration officers and other agents take illegal measures. They are not much for law and order,” said the city council of Chelsea, Roberto Jiménez Rivera. “They simply take measures and we took measures to sue and say that we respect people's rights. The city has already sued the administration for things that are illegal to us.”

Last week in Chelsea, three young men and one of their fathers were arrested by ice cream when they left the Chelsea police station.

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