Traffic hummed along Military Highway in Virginia Beach as two small children sat in the backseat of a parked car, screaming for their father. Just feet away, federal immigration agents — some masked and unidentifiable, others in Homeland Security Investigations uniforms — had taken the man into custody.

Video posted in the Facebook group “Hispanos en Norfolk – Virginia” on Nov. 1 shows the family’s car pulled to the shoulder near Indian River Road while agents mill about outside. The children are alone inside — their father has been moved to an unmarked white pickup truck. In a second video, they call out for their father.

Much about the video — in both Spanish and English — isn’t known, including the identities of the man, the children or the federal agents. What happened to the man an

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