‘The worst thing that has happened to me’: Honduran immigrant shares his experience of the South Burlington ICE raid

‘The worst thing that has happened to me’: Honduran immigrant shares his experience of the South Burlington ICE raid

José Estrada Jerez, 19, outside the Dorset Street house in South Burlington on May 17, 2026, where he and others had sheltered in place for hours during an ICE raid on March 11. Photo by Auditi Guha/VTDigger When federal agents stormed into the house he had lived in just five months, José Estrada Jerez said he and his uncle were on their knees, their hands raised in surrender. “They burst in the door, their guns pointed at me and my uncle,” Jere…