WORTHINGTON — A Worthington man apprehended by ICE agents while jumpstarting his vehicle on the morning of Jan. 30 outside his home has been released from federal custody.Jose Lozano, 28, was released around 11 p.m. Feb. 3, and was brought back to Worthington by volunteers helping those illegally detained. He had the clothes he was wearing at the time of his arrest, along with his El Salvadoran ID card, U.S. work permit and his driver’s license. They told me they didn’t find the keys. Why they have my documents and it’s not in the same place (as the wallet), I don’t know. Jose Lozano What he didn’t get back was the more than $300 in cash he had in his wallet, his bank/credit card, the wallet itself, his cell phone and the two sets of keys agents removed from his vehicles that frigid Friday morning.“They told me if they found it (the money and the keys) they would send it to me, but I don’t think so,” Lozano shared Friday afternoon during a visit to The Globe with Rhina Resendez, who helped arrange the interview.He now has to take both vehicles to the dealership to get the vehicles rekeyed and reprogrammed, he said. The cost to do so on just one of the vehicles is $590; the other will be about the same. Since he had his house keys on the same keychain, he will also be replacing the locks on his house. He canceled his bank card.“They told me they didn’t find the keys,” he said of agents at the federal ICE detention center in Minneapolis. “Why they have my documents and it’s not in the same place (as the wallet), I don’t know.”“They logged in all of the items, but they didn’t log them out,” Resendez added. “We Latinos tend to carry a lot of cash, just in case. Every single person that is going to get caught is going to have cash in their wallet and it’s not going to be $20.”Lozano was told by federal agents that they couldn’t find his keys or his cash.“A lot of people lose money there,” he added, referring to other individuals, like him, who were released because they had the proper paperwork to be in the United States legally, as well as those who will ultimately be deported. Resendez said a large group of people remain outside the federal building to assist any detainees who are released. Some come outside without even a pair of shoes.“There are people providing blankets and stuff,” she said, and some are offering use of their cell phones for the newly released to call family to come and get them. Apprehended Lozano attempted to start his vehicle with the electric start fob from inside his home on the morning of Jan. 30, but when the vehicle didn’t start, he went out with jumper cables so he could get the vehicle to Mick’s Repair for a pre-scheduled appointment. He’d been having trouble with the vehicle starting.As he was connecting the cables between his two vehicles, he noticed a vehicle turn onto his street and stop.“I didn’t see a plate or nothing; I figured it was ICE,” he said. “The guys got out and run.”One of the individuals grabbed Lozano by the wrist as he was attaching the jumper cables to the battery, and identified himself as an ICE agent.“He started asking questions — if I lived there, what my name was and where I’m from,” Lozano recalled. “He asked if I had any papers. I said I had my wallet and then he started checking my body. He took both (sets of) keys, my wallet, my money and the papers in my wallet. “Three more cars came there,” he added. “They said ‘Let’s go, let’s go — we need to go now.’”Lozano said he was placed in the back seat of their vehicle and told he was going to be taken to Minneapolis so they could check his fingerprints.That morning, he and one other individual were apprehended by ICE. They were taken to Minneapolis in a caravan that included four vehicles and 11 or 12 agents, Lozano said. Somewhere near St. James, they pulled off the highway and put Lozano in shackles at his feet, and moved his handcuffed hands from behind him to in front of him.During the ride, Lozano said the two agents in the vehicle shared stories about their families, not realizing that Lozano is fluent in English and could understand everything they were saying.He said as they talked about their families, all he could think about was how they took him from his own family — his wife, stepson and daughter — without even a chance to say goodbye. From Minneapolis to Elk River Lozano was taken to a federal ICE detention center in Minneapolis. He was given a jelly sandwich, a cookie and a cup of drinking water. If he wanted a refill of water, he was told to get it from the sink, which stood next to the two toilets inside the large holding cell. There were 15 to 20 guys in the cell.“If you don’t have a lawyer, you maybe wait there for two to three nights before going to Texas,” Lozano said. There were no beds, no blankets or pillows — just a concrete floor on which to sleep, if they could. With the assistance of Kivu Immigration Law in Worthington, Lozano had an attorney in the Twin Cities who filed the proper paperwork to keep him in Minnesota until his bail hearing, which was initially set for Feb. 28. That action resulted in Lozano being transferred to the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River within hours of his arrival at the detention center.“Everybody was surprised,” Lozano said of the transfer.What helped his case is that he’s never so much as had a speeding ticket. Any arrest record, any type of weapon that he may have been carrying at the time of his arrest, would have likely resulted in a different outcome.Lozano spent five days in the Sherburne County Jail. He had a bed to sleep on, meals, a rec room to gather with other inmates to play cards or chess, and the ability to make phone calls. Each day he called his wife.When they learned that he would be released on Tuesday, his wife put a Welcome Home banner on the wall and had balloons. He arrived home around 2 a.m. last Wednesday. Welcome home Lozano planned to return to work on Sunday at JBS in Worthington, and back to school Monday at Minnesota West Community & Technical College. He is a full-time worker, a full-time student and a full-time husband and parent.They are all dreams come true for Lozano, who crossed the Rio Grande River and made his way into the United States at the age of 17 with help from relatives on both sides of the border. He turned 18 a month after his arrival. When I saw the names on the app — who put money on the account — all I can say is thank you so much. Jose Lozano His parents paid for him to make the trip — to escape El Salvador and the gang prevalence that held out little hope for his survival. He secured a work permit in the U.S. as he sought political asylum.Ten days after his arrival in Minnesota, Lozano found work in construction. He spent 10 months with the job, but realized he needed to learn English. He did so in a span of three years.“It was so hard,” he said. “I had a hard time imagining graduating, but I pushed myself. I said I need to do this.”Lozano graduated with honors from Worthington High School while also working full time at El Mexicano as a butcher. He worked in the back of the shop, but as his English skills improved he worked his way up to manager. He also served as a waiter, dishwasher and cashier at The Thompson Mexican Grill, and said he is grateful to Efrain Patino for those experiences. About 10 months ago, Lozano changed jobs and started work at JBS, where he was offered free college courses in mechanics in exchange for a four-year contract with the local pork processing facility. He works as a mechanic at JBS full-time.Now two years into his second, five-year work permit, Lozano still has one dream — to become a U.S. citizen.“I need to renew my work permit. It would depend on what the lawyer would say — if I can apply for residency or citizenship (but) yeah, that’s my goal,” he said with a broad grin. “It’s very complicated to go from the work permit he has to residency,” Resendez shared. “It’s very, very complicated.”“I would say this is a miracle for me,” Lozano said of being able to return to Worthington. “I’ve been working hard and got my education.”After Lozano was detained, a family friend established a Go Fund Me account that raised nearly $13,000 to help with Lozano’s attorney fees.“When I saw the names on the app — who put money on the account — all I can say is thank you so much,” he said. “I don’t know how I can repay — maybe help people later.”