Man with no criminal record detained by ICE at gas station in Framingham, Mass., family says

Daniel Orellana was on his way to work when he was intercepted by ICE patrols, his family says.

A 25-year-old Guatemalan man who had no prior police or criminal record, according to his family, was detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents on Monday at a gas station in Framingham, Massachusetts.

The arrest took place around 6 a.m. at a Shell gas station. Daniel Orellana was on his way to work when he was intercepted by ICE patrols. Now, his desperate family is demanding justice, claiming he was wrongfully detained.

Daniel Orellana.Obtained by NBC News“It’s not fair that he’s going through this and being treated like a criminal,” said Arquimedes Orellana, the young man’s father.

Orellana said ICE intercepted Daniel with their vehicles and asked him: “Are you this person?”

“My son answered, ‘I’m not that person. I don’t know him.’… ‘Do you know him?’ ‘No, I don’t know him, I don’t know who he is, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m going to work right now, and let me answer my phone because my boss is calling me.’… And they took his phone and, when they asked him his status, they obviously took him,” Arquimedes Orellana said.