Robbinsdale ICE arrest: Video shows agents arresting man while daughter cries, records

ICE agents said to have been followed a Robbinsdale man home from the grocery store and then arresting him outside his home. It's part of what some immigration attorneys are calling a recent uptick in immigration enforcement here in the metro. Fox 9's Emily Pofall is live in Robbinsdale tonight, and Emily, arrests are not quite as frequent as they were during metro surge, but attorneys you spoke with today say they are still happening. Yeah, I've been on the phone a lot today. I've had some attorneys characterize it to me as an uptick. Others have said this is more so a change in DHS strategy that we do know that there are still arrests happening after ICE patrols as that appears to be what happened here. This view recorded by a neighbor shows two ICE agents arresting Jose Ruelas-Fiorato in front of his Robbinsdale home early Wednesday. Clinging to the porch, he groans in pain, then briefly holds onto the masked agent's leg. Hey brother, get your hands off him, strikes to the face, strikes to the face. The young woman right behind him, his daughter, Chelsea. His attorney filed a petition in court Thursday, arguing he's being wrongfully detained. Court docs say Ruelas Villarato doesn't have an active removal order, and the ICE agents didn't arrive Wednesday with a warrant. His attorney says he came to the U.S. in 1997 and is in the process of gaining permanent residency. He doesn't have a criminal record and runs a cleaning business with his partner. People with no criminal record, people who do not have immigration matter spending. Immigration attorneys say this latest arrest is just one of a steady number. ICE is still frequently making arrests in the metro, even after the end of metro surge. Following the drawdown, that was a little long, but in the last month or so, we have seen. An uptake. Attorneys also say they're fighting to keep their clients from being transferred out of state. Ruelas Virado's attorney tells me that she had to file this petition quickly to keep him from being moved out of state. He's being held in Sherburne County right now. And we did reach out to DHS this morning multiple times for information on this case. We haven't heard back from them yet, but you guys, we don't know if that's due to the Microsoft outage or not. In Robbinsdale, Emily Pofall, Fox 9. All right, Emily, thank you. The federal government is appealing a federal judge's order to return a Minnesota immigrant deported to an African country asking the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to step in and freeze that ruling. Kennis Lopez Gonzalez was arrested back in January. The Nicaraguan native was then deported to the Central African Republic. An immigration judge has previously ruled Gonzalez faced the threat of torture if he was forced to return to Nicaragua.