Police answered immigrant's call for help, then gave him to ICE

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Police answered immigrant's call for help, then gave him to ICE
By Paul P. Murphy and Deanna Hackney, CNN

Updated 1047 GMT (1847 HKT) February 13, 2018
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Man in ICE custody after calling 911 for help 02:02
(CNN)Wilson Rodriguez Macarreno and his family were in trouble, so he did what he knew to do -- call police for help. About an hour later, he was in ICE custody.

Rodriguez's detention on Thursday sent shockwaves through the Seattle-suburb and is now garnering national attention from advocates, warning the way authorities handled the case could make immigrants scared to call police to report crimes.
Early Thursday morning, Rodriguez saw someone trespassing on his property in Tukwila, Washington. In the last few weeks, someone had been repeatedly trying to break-in to his home and car.180213034256-wa-man-calls-911-police-give-him-to-ice-dnt-00003511-exlarge-169.jpg

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