A local restaurant owner and immigration advocates say a two-year-old witnessed his father’s arrest, raising concerns about enforcement actions near families. SHORELINE, Wash. — A Shoreline father has been deported after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him while driving his two-year-old son to daycare, an encounter that witnesses say left the child crying and confused in the back of the car. The arrest happened Sunday morning at N 163rd and Aurora Ave N in Shoreline, where ICE agents blocked lanes of traffic and detained the child’s father while the toddler remained strapped into a car seat in the back. Pulling the child from the car, surrounded by federal agents, is not how Veronica Castañeda expected to start her Sunday. Castañeda, the owner of El Cubano To Go, said her head chef, Ivan Guzman, called her asking for help. He was going to drop his son off and then head into work for the day. “I was in shock,” Castañeda said. “I thought it was a joke.” Castañeda rushed to the scene and took custody of Guzman’s son, who she says was visibly frightened. “The baby was crying. He was scared,” she said. “He didn’t want to see me at first — he was covering himself with a blanket. When I talked to him, he was telling me police took his dad.” Veronica said Guzman called her Friday night from Mexico, telling her he was deported. Word of the arrest quickly spread, drawing immigration rapid responders to the scene to observe and record the interaction. One of them, Chris Megargee, said ICE agents remained on site longer than usual because of the child in the vehicle. “We learned the reason they’re still there is because there was a two-year-old boy in the back seat,” Megargee said. After Castañeda took the child, Megargee moved Guzman’s car out of traffic — a moment he says underscored the normalcy that was abruptly interrupted. “The boy’s lunch is sitting on the car seat right next to me,” he said. “Sliced up apples and a juice box — he was taking him to daycare." He also pointed out there were freshly picked up tamales and soup on the floorboard, still warm. Now, Guzman is detained in an ICE facility in El Paso, TX. Castañeda says her restaurant is missing its lead cook. His arrest has her busier than ever but that's not what she's worried about. She said Guzman has been her right-hand-man, and is the 'key' to her Cuban restaurant. “Ivan is a very hard worker,” she said. “When people say ‘criminals, criminals’ — if you’re here to support your family, work to support your family, I don’t think that’s a crime.” ICE has not released details about Guzman’s arrest. Advocates said the incident highlights the impact immigration enforcement can have on children who witness a parent being detained during everyday routines. Guzman's child has been reunited with his mother, whom we are not identifying for privacy.