Federal immigration officers arrested at least 15 people — including children under the age of 10, one as young as 3 — in San Francisco during their routine check-ins Wednesday according to attorneys, city officials and advocates for immigrant rights.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement took the people into custody at a federal field office at 630 Sansome St. where the people were checking in about their ongoing immigration cases, the officials and advocates said. Some could be deported as soon as Thursday.

ICE did not respond to The Examiner’s request for comment prior to press time.

“It was very unusual, very unprecedented,” said Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, of Wednesday’s arrests.

The arrests came a little

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