{"id":66736,"date":"2025-12-01T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/66736\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:42:08","slug":"man-detained-in-tallahassee-immigration-raid-reunites-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/66736\/","title":{"rendered":"Man detained in Tallahassee immigration raid reunites with family"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A Tallahassee construction worker spent over five months in immigration custody after a raid at a construction site on Gaines Street<\/a> in Tallahassee. <\/p>\n

WCTV is working to learn more details surrounding why Faustino Macedo Ocampo was detained. He said he had been in a years-long immigration process when federal agents detained him at work in May.<\/p>\n

He was abruptly pulled away from his partner of seven years, Amanda Parrish, and the five children they raised together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little scared because I didn\u2019t know what was going to happen,\u201d Ocampo said. \u201cI was sad. I was thinking about my little ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ocampo said he was transferred from Tallahassee to Miami, then to detention facilities in El Paso and Rio Grande, where he described uncomfortable conditions. \u201cThey only give you an aluminum blanket, and we were sleeping on the floor,\u201d he said. \u201cThey tell you, you have to take a shower like every three days, it smelled so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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His wife, Amanda Parrish, said she relied on a phone location-sharing app to track his phone signal until they could speak on the phone regularly. \u201cIt was emotional,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ocampo was released Nov. 18 at a community center in Texas, where the family reunited. \u201cThe kids got to him before I did,\u201d Parrish said. \u201cIt was a beautiful scene for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ocampo said he returned to Tallahassee as a permanent U.S. resident after years of paperwork and a successful court hearing. <\/p>\n

Ocampo said he plans to return to construction work and eventually apply for U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so happy to be home and spend time with my family,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

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