Reports of plain clothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining and arresting immigrants are on the rise. 

This comes after a one-page order from the Supreme Court last week put in jeopardy the legal immigration status of Venezuelans with Temporary Protected Status. 

“They didn't notify us they were ICE officers or anything,” said 30-year-old Orleynis Salas. “They just asked us for our ID, took us to a separate place, took our fingerprints and then they said they had to take all of us: me, my two kids and my husband.”

Salas said ICE agents Monday detained her family while they were in Brooklyn enjoying a family outing and then arrested her husband, 30-year-old Jameson Arias. 

She said she had no idea the two men who she happened to capture while taking a selfie were ICE agents, because they were wearing plain clothes. She’s worried about her husband and children.

“They are with the social worker because they can't handle seeing their dad like that.” Salas said. “My daughter says, ‘Why mom, what did daddy do?’ Nothing. We're human beings. It's not a crime to migrate, it's not a crime to seek a better life. We weren't doing anything wrong.What was supposed to be a family outing, turned into a nightmare for us."

Salas said she and her husband are from Venezuela and had Temporary Protected Status under former President Joe Biden, but the Supreme Court recently gave President Donald Trump the green light to end the protection granted to Venezuelans in 2023.

Salas said ICE agents brought her husband to 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan Monday evening and by morning he had been sent to Pennsylvania. 

She joined demonstrators on Thursday outside the building to protest her husband’s arrest and the many immigrants who’ve been targeted by ICE recently.

Salas said she and her husband were both in the process of applying for asylum. 

In a statement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said, “Secretary Noem is reversing Biden's catch and release policy that allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens to be let loose on American streets. This administration is once again implementing the rule of law.”

Biden extended TPS until October of next year before leaving office. But DHS rescinded that extension after Trump took office. A legal case to determine whether the program will end early is now being litigated.

Also Thursday, just down the block, protesters at a simultaneous demonstration in Foley Square denounced Trump’s immigration crackdown.

“We fight for everyone, regardless of whether they are students, regardless of whether they are documented,” said Fatin Jarara of PAL-Awda NY NJ.