A Leominster man was detained by federal immigration officials two days after a dramatic confrontation two days earlier in which agents used his autistic 5-year-old daughter “to try to lure both he and his wife out of the house,” his lawyer said.

“They’re a bit more terrified because of that to go out,” lawyer Jacob Geller told Boston.com, referring to their daughter’s autism. “Mr. Hip’s wife has not left her apartment since that period because she was the only person there to take care of her daughter.”

Edwards Hip, originally from Guatemala, has been in the country since 2000, Geller said. Hip has been in deportation proceedings for about five years after a previous asylum request, Geller said, before ICE followed his car from his Ash Street home Sept. 16.

Hip was driving his daughter

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