ICE agents arrest 73-yr-old grandfather in Louisiana who has lived in US for 45 years [View all]

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ICE agents arrest 73-year-old grandfather in Louisiana who has lived in US for 45 years

April 3, 2025

Forty-five years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the United States for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.

While on his way to work on Monday, the 73-year-old grandfather was picked up by immigration enforcement agents near his Lafayette home. He sits today in an ICE processing center in Pine Prairie, a village in rural Evangeline Parish.

One of Rodriguez's stepsons posted Monday on Facebook that his father had been taken by ICE agents at a Circle K at the corner of Johnston Street and Guilbeau Road. The family has been quiet since that time.

On Thursday evening, though, Rodriguez's stepdaughter Christian Cooper Riggs, of Lafayette, posted a video on social media telling the story of her father's life and asking for help.