A man was detained while he was rushing to bring his wife to the hospital on Wednesday.Joel Arrona-Lara, 35, was driving his pregnant wife, Maria del Carmen Venegas, to the hospital. But they stopped to get gas and were approached by ICE agents.

The ICE agents demanded identification from the couple. The woman was able to present her identification but Arrona-Lara didn’t have his on him.Since Arrona-Lara could not present identification to the agents, he was detained.

The officers put him in handcuffs and took him into custody, leaving the pregnant mother at the gas station alone.Venegas was left to drive herself to the hospital where she was scheduled for a Cesarean section. The woman gave birth to their son alone.