A Cincinnati family is pleading for the release of a father and small business owner who has been in federal immigration custody for nearly six weeks.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Efrem Yemane Berhe outside his Ohio home on Feb. 16, his family said. His wife, Ksanet Desta, said agents were waiting in vehicles near their driveway when Berhe left for work that morning.
“It was early in the morning, 7 a.m. He was going to work. They blocked him and took him into custody,” Desta said…