00:00Community members spent eight hours outside the USCIS building in downtown Salt Lake City
00:06after recent reports of ICE arresting people at their immigration check-ins.
00:10They tell me this building is supposed to be a safe space, but now it's not.
00:15It was supposed to be Jair Salis's final green card interview.
00:18But last Tuesday, when he and his wife Lexi went into the building with his lawyer.
00:23The U.S.S. officer asked if just Jair could go back, and I went with him because I was
00:27his attorney.
00:28Instead of going into an interviewing room, we went into another room where there were two ICE agents.
00:33Armstrong says this was a shock.
00:35Immediately understood what was happening, but we haven't seen that in Utah.
00:39He has no criminal history.
00:40I wasn't going to the interview thinking that there was going to be any sort of a problem.
00:44Jair came to the U.S. when he was young on a visa and has been married for five years.
00:49Armstrong says the reasoning the officers gave was because he overstayed his visa.
00:54That's a legitimate reason. It's not that it's an illegitimate detention.
00:57It just, we have not seen it right at the very last minute when we have a client that's about
01:02to get over the finish line.
01:03Jair was taken to an ICE facility in Arizona.
01:06He didn't have an opportunity to speak to his wife.
01:09And so after they had taken him away, then I went and spoke to his wife and had to tell
01:13her exactly what happened.
01:14And she was quite distraught, obviously.
01:16This sparked outrage from people here in Utah.
01:19Stand up, fight back!
01:21With many standing outside the U.S. CIS building for eight hours Monday.
01:25We wanted to send a strong message to ICE, knowing that they were planning on showing up and intimidating and
01:31detaining people.
01:32The community stands with immigrants and that we oppose these ICE actions.
01:36I found Luis Villarreal participating in the protest, and he told me this hits close to home.
01:42I was born to two immigrant parents.
01:44I mean, my mom, just two years ago, was at this building getting her green card in her residency.
01:48For ICE to show up and make that difficult for people, to ruin those moments for people, it just goes
01:53to show that they don't care about the community.
01:55Armstrong says they will work to get Jair out on bond just to start the final interview process over again.
02:01To put him through this process honestly does not serve a purpose in his case other than to cause him
02:08to suffer.
02:09And so then you wonder, what's the purpose?
02:10But as for now, it's a waiting game.
02:13In Salt Lake City, Carolina Hassett.
02:15No ICE! No law! Free our families! Free the law!
02:19Fox 13 News, Utah.
