Minnesota father describes detainment conditions, life separated from his family

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This is the second part of a two-part series reporting at how detainment has changed one Minnesota family.

This is the second part of a two-part series on family separation in the Twin Cities. You can read the first part “Minneapolis family shares story of ‘violent’ ICE detainment and 10 months of Separation” here.

Luis Caiza is in limbo. He hasn’t been deported. He hasn’t been released from detainment. He’s still in ICE custody, nearly ten months after his arrest.

His loved ones are more than a thousand miles away in Minnesota.

Caiza lives in a cell at Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico. He’s been there since February 2. MPR News interviewed him in Spanish from the detainment c...