Marvin Godoy Calderon outside his home with his “mejor amigo” — his Bible. | Source: Alexa Treviño for SF StandardMarvin Godoy Calderon was sitting in his silver Hyundai parked in front of his Sunnyside home May 27 when a dark SUV pulled up behind him. It was 8:15 a.m, and Calderon was waiting for his roommate to get in the car so they could go grocery shopping.Suddenly his door swung open. A group of masked agents told him to get out of the car.“Who are you looking for?” Calderon asked. “What’s my name?”The agents didn’t answer. In Spanish and English, they continued to order him to step out.“Show me a warrant,” Calderon said. “I’m not going to resist.”Within seconds, he was yanked from the car and pressed facedown on the asphalt. Three agents surrounded him — one with a knee on his left shoulder, one on his right, one on his neck — while two pinned his arms behind his back and struck him across the back and head.Two more SUVs arrived, and three more agents hopped out. Some wore vests labeled “federal officer.” Calderon would soon learn that they were with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. But in that moment, all he felt was pain and fear. Recalling the episode five days later from the same spot where he was detained — sitting in his car in front of his house — he grew emotional as he thanked God for his safety and his release. In Spanish, he condemned the agents who had beaten him. He marveled that a country so concerned with the humane treatment of animals had treated him so poorly.The 45-year-old fled Peru and came to San Francisco four years ago. A murdered father, then foster care. Now she’s fighting to replace Eric SwalwellHe works two jobs — as a janitor at a Honda dealership in Colma and as a dishwasher at a Taiwanese restaurant — and sends money to his four children in Peru. The Standard confirmed that his work permit is valid through 2030. Calderone was cited by police in 2023 for possession of stolen property but said it was a misunderstanding: He was selling food at an outdoor market, and the woman next to him was allegedly hawking stolen goods. A judge acquitted him.The ICE agents pushed Calderon into their car and took off. On the road to the immigration court at 630 Sansome St., they took pictures of his ID. Upon arrival, they took his fingerprints and allowed him to call his roommate. Then they put him in a cold metal cell by himself, with a meal and a bottle of water. Lunch was a burger patty, a few spoonfuls of mashed potatoes, “10 kernels of corn,” and apple slices. Unbeknownst to Calderon, one of his neighbors had filmed the arrest, and an advocate saw him entering the Sansome Street building. Around 2 p.m., a lawyer arrived to speak with him.“I told her that they had hit me, that they never showed me a warrant, and my tears fell, because a person never thinks they could be given that kind of treatment,” Calderon said. “The way they treat you isn’t fit for a human being. Anyway, the lawyer told me not to sign anything and that, in a week or two, she would be able to get me out.”Calderon injured his knee when ICE agents slammed him to the ground. | Source: Alexa Treviño for SF StandardICE agents told Calderon they were going to take him to a processing facility. They brought him and six other detainees out of their cells, shackled their hands, feet, and waists, and loaded them into a van. “It felt very bad to see myself chained up,” Calderon said.On the road, the detainees talked quietly among themselves and watched the minutes pass on the car clock. But after they had driven south for two and a half hours, the agents received a call: A federal judge had granted a temporary restraining order mandating Calderon’s immediate release. The agents had to return him to San Francisco.When they arrived at the processing facility — he still doesn’t know where it was — agents unloaded the other six detainees but told Calderon to stay put. The van turned around and started driving back to SF. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “At 630 Sansome, they removed the cuffs from my hands, feet, and waist, handed me my belongings, opened the door, and told me I was free to go.”He was exhausted from the ordeal, but once the adrenaline wore off, intense pain from the assault compelled him to go to SF General, where he had a CT scan and X-rays. Discharge paperwork shows that doctors found evidence of head injury and fluid in his left knee, which was slammed into the ground during the arrest. The hospital released him at 2 a.m. and gave him Tylenol for the pain, with orders to take it easy for a few days.But the end of the month was rapidly approaching, and Calderon didn’t have that luxury. When he didn’t show up to his restaurant job the night of his arrest, his boss gave the rest of his shifts for the week to another dishwasher, and Calderon was left wondering how he’d come up with his rent money. He went to his day job at the Honda dealership the next day despite the soreness he felt and brainstormed on how to make up for his lost income.He settled on a classic Peruvian fundraising strategy: pollada. Calderon has made the dish — chicken marinated in soy sauce with ají panca chiles — for many parties and fundraisers before. In fact, it was what he was selling when he was arrested in 2023.Calderon with his hospital discharge papers outside his home. | Source: Alexa Treviño for SF StandardHe put out word on social media that he needed to raise money quickly and was selling pollada out of his house. The orders came rolling in, and he marinated the chicken all day Friday before waking up Saturday at 5 a.m. to cook. He ended up selling 45 plates for $20 a pop and netted $900 — enough to make rent.A week later, he still feels on edge. While out walking, he’s constantly looking left and right, worried that the agents will reappear and grab him again. His roommates — six other Peruvians and Colombians, including children — are also nervous. But what can they do? Calderon’s next hearing is June 10, when federal lawyers must argue against a preliminary injunction so they can detain him again. “Despite an Obama-appointed activist judge ordering his release, the facts are he is an illegal alien, and we will continue to fight for his detention and deportation,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said via email.In the meantime, Calderon just wants to continue working, cooking at events, and going to church at Templo de la Fe in the Mission. The message he repeated again and again while recounting his experience was simple: Most immigrants are hardworking and law-abiding.“I’m going to continue doing things the right way,” he said.This story has been updated with a comment from the Department of Homeland Security.