Jonathan Goldstein

She had recorded the call, and she shows me the video.

I asked where Julio and his roommate were while she was on the phone with her daughter.

Turns out they were also on the phone.

Yamile says that her daughter, rightfully, didn't open the door, but ice broke the door down.

While she's telling this story, a toddler runs in.

He's bright-eyed and wearing a little football jersey.

Is this your grandson?

Hard.

Emilie says her grandson keeps talking about that night.

He still has nightmares.

Mom, he's smaller.

To flee political persecution from one country, the family underwent a death-defying journey to another country, only to be persecuted by that new country's government.

Could you ever have imagined that it would get this bad, that it would get like this?

That first winter, Emilis wore gloves and hats indoors.

Wherever she went, she carried around a space heater that had been gifted to her.

But seeing how much the kids enjoyed the snow, the winter has grown on her.

On Tuesday, Julio appeared in court.

To counter the federal government's narrative, lawyers presented photographs showing a bullet hole through the front door of Julio's house and a bullet hole in one of the bedrooms between a mattress and a crib.

The judge ordered Julio's release, but when Julio left the courthouse, ICE agents were waiting for him outside.

He's now back in detention.