Syracuse, N.Y. — Lixing Chen went to his immigration appointment Sept. 15 just as he had the three times before, said his son, Andy Chen.

Andy drove. When Chen went into the building for his appointment, Andy waited in the car, he said. He watched the glass door of the ICE building in a suburban office park for two hours.

Andy’s dad did not come out.

Finally, Andy said, a federal agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement came out to the car and told him his father had been detained.

That was the second time in less than two weeks that ICE had detained a Syracuse-area Chinese restaurant owner at their regularly scheduled ICE check-in, relatives and a community advocate told syracuse.com.

On Sept. 2, Dan Chen (no relation) was detained when she went to her regular ICE check-in, acc

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