Updated Jan. 21, 2026, 3:23 p.m. ETWhile the federal Department of Homeland Security continues to withhold the identity of most of the 11 people arrested by ICE agents in Morristown on Jan. 11, the community has rallied to support at least two of them in a big way.Online fundraisers have identified two of the residents arrested that Sunday morning along Speedwell Avenue —including a Morristown High School senior. Donors have raised $120,000 for their legal defense as they face deportation.Adonay Mancia Rodriguez went to pick up a takeout food delivery at the front door of his apartment building when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested him, leaving his 6-year-old daughter alone, a family friend said. The Honduran national came to the U.S. in 2013 and works in town as a chef, according to Cathleen Murphy, a Morristown teacher and neighbor of Mancia Rodriguez's family.He remains in custody at the Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility, ICE records show."He came here as a refugee when he was 17 years old," said Murphy, who said she was "acting as [the family's] advocate during this time.""He never received a follow-up mailing for his immigration process," she said. "He has a case to get his green card and everything. He just didn't receive the mailing to go to court. So he never followed up with the process and then that's what led to the deportation order, we guess."When he told the ICE officials his daughter was upstairs, "They said, 'We're not here for your daughter. We're here for you,'" Murphy added. "They did not send anybody to check on her or coordinate with local police or anything. They just took him to the car."The girl was in the apartment upstairs for about an hour until she realized something was wrong, Murphy said.6-year-old left alone"So she gathered up her things, her coat, her shoes and her tablet, and she went out on the street," she said. "She waited for a woman who came walking up the street and she said, 'I don't know where my dad is.' The woman was able to use the tablet to contact the family. Her mother was working at Walmart at the time.""The little girl is absolutely traumatized," Murphy said.Mancia Rodriguez's family has been allowed to visit him in detention, and an attorney is working on the case."We're waiting to hear this week if the judge will accept the motion to reopen his case to become a citizen. or a resident," Murphy said.In a Jan. 15 response to emailed questions, three days after the raid, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrests of 11 "illegal aliens, several with felony offenses" in the Morristown operation.Others "took advantage of the Biden administration’s open border crisis," Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS assistant secretary, said in the email.The message did not identify the detainees nor provide details about the alleged offenses.Online fundraisersMurphy has cosponsored an online fundraiser for her neighbor's legal defense along with a family cousin of Mancia Rodriguez, Rosa Portillo. It had exceeded $26,000 as of late on Jan. 20."He first came to the country as a refugee and has been living and working in Morristown for over a decade," Portillo wrote. "He is a hard worker with no criminal record whatsoever who is just trying to provide for his family. He has a huge family here that is devastated, but most of all is his daughter, who is inconsolable. They are very close and all she wants is to have him back."Another fundraiser has collected more than $94,000 for the legal defense of Juan David Mendoza, a Morristown High School senior who was among the detainees. Mendoza, 17, "was taken by ICE without warning, leaving his family shocked and terrified," the organizers of the fundraiser wrote.Organizers have yet to respond to messages from the Daily Record, but according to an update on the fundraising page, a district judge ordered the teen's release on Jan. 15 and he is currently represented by legal counsel. Efforts to reach the family were unsuccessful.In a follow-up email from DHS on Jan. 20, McLaughlin said Mendoza was "an illegal alien from Honduras" who had entered the U.S. in 2024. "He is an adult," McLaughlin added."All individuals are currently detained, and either in removal proceedings or in the process of being removed from the United States in accordance with U.S. immigration law," she said.“We encourage all illegal aliens to use the CBP Home app to take control of their departure. The U.S. taxpayer is generously offering illegal aliens $1,000 and a free flight home.”