ICE agents draw weapon, break car window while arresting Alamosa man ... Woman says her partner and their infant were stopped at gunpoint in Colorado by ICE with a One-month-old baby was in the car ICE agents surround Alamosa resident Jose Aguilera, one drawing his weapon and the other shattering the car window, as they detain him on an immigration warrant on Sept. 25. Video shot by Maya England Posted Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:00 am By PRISCILLA WAGGONER, Courier Reporter ALAMOSA — On Thursday at about 3:15 p.m., 33-year-old Jose Aguilera of Alamosa was driving down Sixth Street with Maya England and their one-month-old baby in the car when they noticed three SUVs behind them that seemed to be maneuvering traffic to stay on their tail. “I noticed that the three of them came from different places [on Highway 285] by Family Dollar and started following us down the street,” England told the Valley Courier. “They looked like regular cars – they were different kinds and didn’t have any signs on the sides or lights on top. And they didn’t try to stop us or anything. They were just following us.” As England describes it, at a specific moment, all three SUVs then turned on their sirens at the same time as one SUV swung around and cut off Aguilera’s car while the other two pulled up behind, trapping the vehicle on the street. At this point, Aguilera takes out his phone to call his boss, and England starts recording the incident on her phone. Within seconds, the ICE agent in the front SUV jumps out of his vehicle with his gun drawn, pointing it directly at Aguilera through the windshield as he walks rapidly toward the vehicle. Neither he nor the two agents with him identify themselves as being with ICE or Border Patrol or confirm that he was Jose Aguilera. It should be noted that Aguilera has no criminal record or history of violence. Aguilera rolls down his window several inches and says repeatedly, “Es un errado, gue, un errado.” (“It’s a mistake, dude. A mistake.”) The ICE agent yells at him several times to get out of the car and then, 5 seconds later and while still holding the gun in one hand that he is now pointing directly into the car, takes something out of his pocket that he uses with his other hand to hit the window. At this point, a second ICE agent comes up to the car and, using a baton, smashes the car window, sending a spray of shattered glass into the car interior while England screams, “We have a baby! We have a baby!” Aguilera, who England says is trying to clear the glass that is falling everywhere, is also saying, “Mi niño, mi niño! My baby, bro!” This was just 30 seconds after they had been pulled over. “There was glass was everywhere,” England says. “I covered my baby with my body – I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him, too. I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care. They didn’t care.” With the window now smashed and hanging from the frame, the ICE agent starts yelling, “Open the door, open the [expletive] door.” England says Aguilera, who can be seen with pieces of glass in his hair and on the back of his jacket, sweeps away the glass and seems to struggle getting the door to open as the ICE agent is pulling on the other side. Aguilera is eventually successful. With his hands in clear view and saying, “Okay, okay, okay,” he gets out of the car where he’s immediately put in handcuffs. At no time did Aguilera, who stands over six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds, show any signs of resisting. As he was standing head down while being handcuffed, England is heard asking repeatedly, “Can you tell me why you’re detaining him?” Eventually, one of the ICE agents says, “Immigration warrant.” She can then be heard asking – again, repeatedly – to see the signed warrant. Eventually, the same ICE agent says, “It’s at the office. You can come see it there.” England has yet to see the warrant. When she has gone to the office as directed, the door has been locked. Aguilera was held at the ICE Field Office in Alamosa for several hours before being transported to an ICE facility in Aurora. England has spoken to him multiple times since being detained, including a conversation where he described what the environment is like. The lights go off at ten o’clock at night and come on at six o’clock in the morning. He is in a small cell with three other men with the [toilet] positioned between the bunks. He’s told her the food is not good with just a small box of cereal and a carton of milk for breakfast and a bologna sandwich for lunch. They get soap and shampoo to shower, which Aguilera says is the best part because the showers, which are partitioned off, allow him a few moments of privacy. But, she says, he’s sounding more and more depressed. “He misses us – he really misses the baby – and we don’t know what’s going to happen next.” They have a lawyer willing to work with them but he needs to be paid a retainer first. Jose Aguilera has been gainfully employed as a carpenter since coming to Alamosa six years ago and has no history with local law enforcement other than two minor traffic infractions, which he paid immediately. England describes their lifestyle as “very quiet. We’re homebodies, and he’s a hard worker,” she says. “He just finished building a house and he got hurt when he fell off a ladder and a board slid down and made a huge cut on his forehead. He had to get 22 stitches and, as soon as he was done at the hospital, he went back to work. He works hard - every day. And he can do anything.” England admits that Aguilera can look intimidating because he’s so tall. "And he kind of has a serious face but...it's just serious. That's all. You ask him for help and, no matter what it is or no matter who you are or if you're black or white or Mexican, he’ll help you. He’d give somebody the shirt off his back.” England, who was born in the U.S., is not naïve. One of her family members – someone who has lived in Alamosa and been gainfully employed for thirty years – was arrested by ICE several months ago, and they have yet to find out where he is. She knows this is a possibility for others in her life. She also knows that she may soon find herself a single parent with a one-month-old to support. When asked what she thinks she’ll do if that’s the case, she just shakes her head. She doesn’t know. “We work hard. We’re good people. We don’t cause trouble. We just want to build a life for our families. Why is that such a bad thing?” The Valley Courier attempted multiple times to reach the local field office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment but there was no answer and no way to leave a message.