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Men detained in Dover, NJ raid held at Roxbury warehouse; one deported to Honduras

Oct 8, 2026·Location: Dover, NJ

Country of origin: Honduras

Men detained in Dover, NJ raid held at Roxbury warehouse; one deported to Honduras
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During a Sept. 4 ICE raid in Dover, N.J., a Honduran man was picked up on his way to work, loaded into a van, and taken with nine other detained men to a warehouse in nearby Roxbury, where they were handcuffed and held in a parking lot for hours. Frightened, he signed deportation papers and said he regretted it the next morning; NPR later located him in Honduras, where he had been deported, and he requested anonymity out of fear for loved ones still in the U.S. During the same raid, a 59-year-old worker was cornered against a wall by two masked ICE agents in footage that later circulated on social media. His daughter recognized him in the video and received a disoriented call from him afterward saying he was handcuffed somewhere she believed was the Roxbury warehouse; she has not been able to reach him since and asked not to be named for fear of being targeted.

Timeline

Oct 8, 2026—NPR reported the men's accounts, including locating the Honduran man after his deportation to Honduras
Sep 4, 2026—ICE conducted a raid in Dover, N.J., detaining multiple men including a Honduran worker and a 59-year-old man
Sep 4, 2026—Detained men taken to an ICE warehouse in Roxbury, N.J., and held handcuffed in a parking lot for hours
Sep 4, 2026—Honduran man signed deportation papers while in custody; 59-year-old man's daughter received a disoriented call from him and has since lost contact
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