Amna Nawaz:
Marcel, I want to begin with you. And I will just say we can’t even imagine what you and your family have been through this month.
But just take me back to that day, August 11. You and Jemmy and your three young daughters land home at the Boston Airport. She’s suddenly taken into custody. Tell me about that moment.
Marcel Rosa, Husband of Jemmy Jimenez Rosa: They took Jemmy into a room by herself. And, a few minutes later, they opened up the door, asked me to go in the room. I was with my kids. I told them I’m going to take my kids with me inside the room.
And that’s when — once I walked into the room, that’s when I noticed that something had just happened. My wife, she was sitting down, sunk in the chair. I just knew that there was no way that she would be able to come out that room, just based off the energy. There was only one officer that was really doing the talking.
He essentially said that she wasn’t leaving. I pleaded with them. I asked a series of questions. What they were saying was very vague. She was just — she just broke down crying. Just the way the CBP officers was treating the situation I thought was inhumane. They was just — it was destroying my family.
And it was as if it was nothing to them, like as if it was an assembly line in a car manufacturing facility, just another task that they have to deal with. It was tough. It was real tough. I — we felt like we was ambushed. It was just a tough situation.
You go — we went from having the best vacation to just getting my wife ripped out of my life.
