Adonay Mancia Rodríguez was spending a quiet Sunday at home in Morristown with his six-year-old daughter, Annabella. The two had been watching cartoons together while his life partner, Gabby Rosa, worked a shift at a nearby Walmart. His little girl said she was hungry so Adonay ordered some food from one of the restaurants close to their apartment building. What happened nearly 20 minutes after that is something Gabby Rosa says none of them could’ve ever imagined: He went to pick up the food and was taken by ICE, who were conducting a raid across the street. “They took him and they left my baby in the apartment, all alone,” she told me in Spanish. “No tienen corazón,” I thought. They are heartless. Who could do such a thing, right? And yet, in recent days we’ve all seen what they’re capable of doing. And how ruthlessly — without pause or remorse whatsoever. The truth is we’re living in a country where inhumanity is now the norm. Just days ago, Trump flippantly suggested Renée Good’s fatal shooting was justified because she was “disrespectful.” He also reiterated ICE agent Jonathan Ross’ “absolute immunity” in the shooting. Gabby says she was shocked and scared when she learned what was going on in her neighborhood. It all happened at the same time the laundromat across the street from their apartment on Speedwell Avenue was raided by federal immigration agents. The raid there resulted in the detention of 10 people, including that of a local high school student.Gabby told me she was busy at work when her cell phone suddenly started going off. “It was one of my neighbors, calling to tell me what was happening,” she says. “She told me she’d seen my daughter, walking by herself on the street, crying, crying out for her dad, asking ‘Where’s Papi? Where’s Papi?’” Annabella had wandered out of the apartment to look for her dad. At that point, Gabby tells me, she rushed home in a panic, desperate to get to her daughter. “Later, on social media, I saw videos of [Adonay] and of other people face down on the floor, being held down by ICE agents,” she said tearfully. For Adonay, she told me, life has been difficult from the start. He lost his mother at a young age and was forced to flee his homeland to escape gang violence and extreme poverty. She says he’s been living in New Jersey since 2013 and works at a Halal restaurant close by.“He’s not a criminal, he doesn’t have a criminal record,” she said. (I checked and all I found were two minor traffic tickets.) “He’s a person who’s dedicated his life to working hard to provide a better future for us, for our daughter.” His focus, she tells me, “has always, always been her.” “I don’t want her to grow up without him, without one of her parents, the same way he did,” she says. Since Adonay was snatched up by ICE and taken to the Elizabeth Detention Center, Gabby has been scrambling to find an immigration lawyer who can take his case. “Of course, that costs a lot of money, which we, unfortunately, don’t have,” she said. Adonay’s aunt, Rosa Portilla, launched a GoFundMe to raise funds for his legal defense and the family has so far raised a few thousand. On Monday, Morristown Mayor Tim Dougherty took to Facebook to issue an urgent plea for pro bono legal help for residents swept up in the laundromat raid. “If there’s any immigration attorneys that want to help us and can assist the people that were picked up, swept up in this raid, our community would be very grateful,” Dougherty said in a video posted on the town’s official Facebook page. “I would be very, very grateful for whatever help we can get,” Gabby said. “My daughter won’t stop asking for her dad, she won’t stop crying, and begging to see him. This situation is very, very difficult,” she says. “I still can’t believe this happened, I still can’t believe they left a little child alone, a 6-year-old, without her dad, to fend for herself.” I hate to say this, but I can. No tienen corazón. Editor’s note: The headline and some of the details in this story were edited on Jan. 14 to clarify the circumstances of his arrest.