As immigration enforcement ramped up in Massachusetts over the past several months, Leslie Perlera Gonzalez grew scared for her husband.

“I lived in constant fear that if my phone rings, something bad is happening,” she said.

This week, her fear came true: Her husband, Edgar Hernan Elias Escobar, called her to say that masked federal agents had rammed their car into his to stop it as he went to work, smashed the window, and pointed a stun gun at his head.

She quickly drove to the scene of the arrest in Malden, and saw the agents around him. She has not seen him since they took him away.

“Hernan and I have tried really hard to bring peace into our home,” she said, tears drawing her makeup into dark gray lines down her cheeks. “And that was shattered on Wednesday.”

The arrest was among

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