The father detained with his two children by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in southwestern Colorado earlier this week was wrongly identified by agents, a senior official with ICE's Denver field office said on Friday.

The official, Gregory Davies, testified in a federal court hearing on Friday that 45-year-old Fernando Jaramillo-Solano was "mistaken" for someone else immigration agents were looking for. Jaramillo-Solano was taking his 12-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son to school in Durango when they were stopped by ICE agents and taken into custody. All three remained in ICE custody as of Friday.

Word of the family's detention, combined with a now-viral video, prompted a protest outside ICE's Durango facility.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday th

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