According to the Providence City Council Chief of Staff, an ICE agent shocked a man with a taser on Parade St. near Dexter Park, which sent the man being detained to the hospital.

PROVIDENCE – Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials identified the man whose detention sparked protests outside Rhode Island Hospital on April 24 as a Dominican national who authorities say entered the country illegally.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have deported a breastfeeding Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, as well as three children — all U.S. citizens — along with their Honduran-born mothers.

In a Thursday court filing, lawyers for the father said ICE indicated that it was holding the 2-year-old girl in a bid to induce the father to turn himself in. His lawyers did not

Three American children, ages 2, 4, and 7, were deported to Honduras with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to the families' lawyers. The 4-year-old is reported to have cancer and was being treated in the U.