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Well aware of his impending detention, as he entered a Baltimore federal building, Abrego Garcia embraced his wife, tears streaming down his face.

A crowd of about 200 supporters rallied outside the federal building for Abrego Garcia, who entered the U.S. without legal status when he was 16 years old in an effort to escape death threats and extortion by an El Salvador gang.

Clients, he said, are alarmed not only by the government’s legal maneuvers but by the prospect of entering a federal building these days.

“There’s not much to do,” one Marine told The Times as he stood guard earlier this month outside the Wilshire Federal Building in Westwood.

The guidelines, which have since been taken down from ICE’s website, also claimed that field offices, such as the facility at the Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles, “are not detention facilities” and fall outside the scope of the oversight law.