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ICE arrested a misidentified Durango asylum-seeker and his two children without a warrant en route to school

On October 27, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Fernando Jaramillo-Solano, a Colombian national with a pending asylum case, and his two children without a warrant as he drove them to school in Durango, Colorado. A senior ICE official later testified in federal court that Jaramillo-Solano had been mistaken for another person, but agents detained him anyway and transferred him to a Texas facility. The family was separated from the children's mother, and the arrest triggered days of protests outside the Durango ICE field office.

Jurisdiction
Federal
Location
Durango, Colorado

Abuses documented

Actors

On October 27, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped Fernando Jaramillo-Solano near the edge of Durango, Colorado, as he drove his 12-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son to school, and detained all three without a warrant. Jaramillo-Solano, a 45-year-old Colombian national who had lived in Durango for roughly 18 months, had a pending asylum case and no criminal record, according to the Compañeros: Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center. His family said he had followed every legal requirement of the asylum process.

Federal authorities later acknowledged that Jaramillo-Solano had been misidentified. On October 31, Gregory Davies, a senior official at ICE's Denver field office, testified in federal court that Jaramillo-Solano had been mistaken for another person immigration agents were seeking. Agents detained him anyway, separating the family from the children's mother and transferring Jaramillo-Solano to the ICE Processing Center in Dilley, Texas. Durango police said federal agents denied their officers entry to the field office to conduct a welfare check on the children, and the arrest set off days of protests outside the facility where officers deployed pepper spray and rubber bullets.

Updates

2025-11-19 — Family signed papers to return to Colombia [3]

Advocates announced that Jaramillo-Solano and his two children had signed paperwork requesting voluntary departure to Colombia, abandoning their asylum case. The children's mother said the detention had caused the family mental, physical, and emotional trauma that left them unable to continue fighting the case.

2025-12-10 — Father and children arrived in Bogotá, completing return to Colombia [4]

Jaramillo-Solano and his two children arrived at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá on December 9 or 10, 2025, reuniting with extended family. The children's mother, Estella Patiño, was not on the flight; she remained in Durango pursuing her own asylum case before later also returning to Colombia separately.

Why we recorded this

Due process and the Fourth Amendment bar the government from seizing people without lawful basis. Federal immigration agents arrested a father and his two children without a warrant, then continued to detain him after a senior official acknowledged in federal court that they had mistaken him for someone else. This archive records when immigration enforcement detains people without legal authority and separates families, eroding the safeguards that protect everyone from arbitrary government seizure.

Sources

  1. Father detained by ICE in Durango will be transferred to Texas, pending immigration proceedings — The Colorado Sun primary accessed July 16, 2026
  2. ICE says father who was detained in Durango, Colorado was "mistaken" for someone else — CBS Colorado investigative accessed July 16, 2026
  3. Durango father, two kids ask to return to Colombia after being picked up by ICE on their way to school — The Colorado Sun primary accessed July 16, 2026
  4. Family seeking asylum in Durango reunites in Colombia — The Durango Herald primary accessed July 19, 2026

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