Like many in North Texas, Berenice Prieto couldn’t turn away from images on TV of a shooting at the Dallas ICE office.

“I knew that no, that something wasn’t right,” said Prieto.

The night before, she said her husband, Norlan Guzman Fuentes, had called her from a Tarrant County jail to tell her that he was being deported to El Salvador.

“He said, ‘If I don’t call you anymore, it’s because they’ve already moved me’,” she said.

Prieto said the couple had planned for deportation.

In 2020, Arlington Police arrested Guzman for driving while intoxicated.

The Department of Homeland Security said he was then arrested this year in Dallas for an aggravated assault charge that was later dismissed, but they’d already lodged an immigration detainer.

“I just want people to know that he wasn’t a c

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