The loved ones of a beloved youth mentor who worked with at-risk youth in Parramore are seeking answers after they said he was picked up by immigration authorities last week on his way home from a routine check-in.

Didy Quetant, an undocumented 30-year-old whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement says is a Haitian national, was sent to Krome Detention Facility in Miami, where he awaits a return to Central Florida for an immigration hearing scheduled for early October. The staffer at New Image Youth Center was taken into custody by Florida Highway Patrol and ICE Fugitive Operations at a traffic stop on Aug. 21, following an appointment that morning at the ICE field office in Orlando.

His detention surprised Shanta Barton-Stubbs, founder and director of NIYC, who has known Quetant since he

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