SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Juan Vega Paredes now has a new way of introducing himself to people he meets.

"I'm el hombre de los aguacates ," he says, with a smile on his face.

Avocado man, his new nickname, was born out of one of the worst days of his life: On January 26, Vega Paredes was arrested by federal immigration agents as he was walking to buy some avocados.

He's one of some 500 Dominican migrants arrested in Barrio Obrero, the heart of the Dominican community in San Juan, since President Trump took office in January.

"Once I got intercepted, I thought, 'Oh, this is because of Donald Trump,'" Vega Paredes says. "I resigned myself."

According to ICE , about 75 percent of the people arrested on the island so far have been Dominicans. Fewer than 80 of the 500 people detained by

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