A 66-year-old nanny who was seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers outside of her employer’s San Francisco home Friday morning was released 12 hours after exhaustive efforts by lawyers prompted a federal judge to intervene on her behalf, her attorney said.
The woman, who is originally from Russia, was followed by several unmarked vehicles as she was driving to work in Diamond Heights, according to Ghassan Shamieh, her attorney. After parking, five agents, some of them masked, got out of their vehicle and accosted her, Shamieh said.
“She was terrified,” he said. “She didn’t know who these people were.”…