New Orleans — What began as a normal Monday morning for 18-year-old Jonathan Escalante quickly changed when his mother, 38-year-old Vilma Cruz, called to tell him that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had pulled up behind her car in Kenner, Louisiana.

"She told the man in Spanish that 'I didn't do anything to you, sir,' and then she hung up the call," Escalante said in a broadcast exclusive interview with CBS News. "And then I wasn't able to call her ever since."

Another relative said she was on the phone with Cruz when she heard ICE agents yelling to open the door. The next thing she heard was the window breaking, before the phone went dead.

Cruz, who is from Honduras and has lived in the U.S. for roughly two decades, had spent nearly three weeks avoiding work because o

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