It was just after 7 a.m. when masked immigration agents pulled over a family driving in Fitchburg. The agents were there to arrest a woman in the car, whom they believed was in the country illegally.
A man inside the car, the child’s father, was undocumented too, according to police reports obtained by WBUR, but agents did not want to arrest him “because of the child’s presence.”
In the police narratives of the events that Nov. 6 morning, Captain Jeffrey Howe wrote that upon arriving at the scene, “My intention was to serve as a resource and to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all involved, particularly the child.”…