A north Phoenix couple were detained by ICE agents for about 90 minutes on Monday morning before disembarking a Carnival cruise ship docked in south Miami that had returned from a nine-day trip to the southern Caribbean.
Tammy Verhas said Monday her room was entered about 6:45 a.m. by three Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who grabbed and cuffed her husband, Jose Martinez, and detained him in a detention facility. Both are U.S. citizens.
“We were in bed asleep and all of a sudden flashlights were going all over the place and three men came in and grabbed Jose,” Verhas said. “I was trying to film the whole thing, and they brought in a woman to try and keep me from filming, but I was able to shove her off of me.”
