U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security Investigations agents in Washington were captured on video violently shattering car windows to detain two Nicaraguan brothers, one of whom is married and expecting a child with a U.S. citizen.
A video circulating on social media showed the agents breaking the windows while Kayla Somarriba, 25, who is seven months pregnant, her husband, Jeison Ruiz-Rodriguez, 26, and his brother, Cesar Ruiz-Rodriguez, 22, repeated that what they were doing was illegal and informing them Somarriba was seven months pregnant.
An officer then broke the passenger window, opened the door and dragged Cesar out of the vehicle while Somarriba cried in the background. Her husband was also forcefully removed and tasered.
"No, no, no, you can't do this, please," Somarriba repeated.
@anonmom5876 Here's the post from Facebook: 9am on 3/10/25 Spokane Valley/City 1st Ave and Havana area: This is how immigrants are being treated in Spokane. They were on their way to their court hearing and were closed in by two trucks. Unmarked vehicles. These are Customs Enforcement Agents (better known as ICE). The passengers knew their rights so they started recording and asked the agents for a warrant. The agents didn’t provide a warrant and demanded they get out of the car. When they didn’t get out of the car the agents proceeded to smash their windows and forcefully remove them by dragging them out of their car. This is a gruesome display of excessive force. This family was on their way to court and were terrified. Everyone regardless of their immigration status deserves to have a right to defend their case in the court. This incident was reported to WAISN, NWIRP, and ACLU-WA. #ICE #spokane #trump
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Somarriba said at least 12 agents swarmed their vehicle on Monday about a block from their home. They were on their way to court because the brothers had threatened a member of their family, according to The Spokesman-Review.
The Ruiz-Rodriguez brothers were originally from Nicaragua. Somarriba's husband, Jeison, had been in the States on a work permit, trying to get approved for a Green Card since 2015. His brother, Cesar, was undocumented, but he was also in the process of obtaining a work permit and social security number.
"I even offered to show them my passport, my husband's work permit and social security number, but they didn't want to see it; they just kept saying they are criminals and that they can't be in the United States," Somarriba told The Spokesman-Review.
Jeison and Cesar are being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. Somarriba is now working with a lawyer to release them. They've already determined the agents never filed for a warrant for the brothers' arrests, despite claiming otherwise during the altercation.
ICE claimed they arrested the men because they believed they had ties to the Tren de Aragua gang, but failed to provide proof.
"What I do know is that Washington's ICE has a history of lying about people being associated with gangs to justify their detention," Luis Cortes, attorney at Novo Legal LLC, told The Spokesman-Review.
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