Seven people were reportedly arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a home in northeast Madison Thursday morning, according to Latino advocacy group Voces de La Frontera.

The organization would not provide information to the Cap Times about where those detained were taken and said the arrests were called in to Voces de La Frontera’s emergency hotline.

The group’s statewide organizing director, Luis Velasquez, told the Cap Times his organization is working with the families of the people who were detained to gather more information.

“We receive over 100 calls sometimes daily. We do not publish anything that has not been vetted,” Velasquez said Thursday. “We were able to vet it out and talk to family members directly affected by the situation.”

The Madison Police Department initially declined to comment on the reported arrests on Thursday. Instead, Officer Anthony Vogel directed the Cap Times to request information on the case from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which also did not respond to multiple requests for information.

On Friday, Madison Police Department spokesperson Korrie Rondorf told the Cap Times that the department was not made aware of the presence of ICE officers in Madison until after the operation took place and “after they were already gone from our community.”

“We were made aware of their possible presence by trusted community partners, and we were later able to confirm it by contacting federal partners,” Rondorf wrote in a Friday email to the Cap Times.

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