TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - A Tallahassee construction worker spent over five months in immigration custody after a raid at a construction site on Gaines Street in Tallahassee.

WCTV is working to learn more details surrounding why Faustino Macedo Ocampo was detained. He said he had been in a years-long immigration process when federal agents detained him at work in May.

He was abruptly pulled away from his partner of seven years, Amanda Parrish, and the five children they raised together.

“I was a little scared because I didn’t know what was going to happen,” Ocampo said. “I was sad. I was thinking about my little ones.”

Ocampo said he was transferred from Tallahassee to Miami, then to detention facilities in El Paso and Rio Grande, where he described uncomfortable conditions. “They o

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