Four men shackled at the chest were shuffled into a GEO transport van at an unmarked immigration detention facility on Thursday in downtown Colorado Springs.

After one of the individuals was seen being arrested outside the building that houses The Gazette, a black unmarked SUV was tracked to a condominium a few blocks away at 415 E. Pikes Peak Ave., which includes the Pueblo Bank & Trust, residential units and the Department of Homeland Security, a spokesperson confirmed.

According to the spokesperson, the office is used to temporarily hold alleged undocumented immigrants before they’re transferred to another facility.

“He just wanted the American Dream,” said Inez, a 22-year-old daughter of Sergio, one of the four detainees seen leaving the building. “This is our worst nightmare.”

Sergio, whose last name is being withheld at the family’s request, illegally immigrated from Mexico decades ago to escape the crime-filled city of Chihuahua, she said.

Inez, who requested her last name not be used in fear of retaliation by ICE, said her father has worked in construction in the U.S. for almost 40 years, fighting through partial blindness and medical issues to keep food on the table.

According to Inez, her father was filling up his truck at the Maverik gas station near Academy Boulevard and Hancock Avenue on Colorado Springs’ southeast side before leaving for work with his boss Thursday morning.

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