The man who wasn't there

As the College for Congregational Development moved into its first full day, one of the trainers for the team I'm on was called away. The rector at Christ Church San Marcos in Tarrytown, he learned that an ICE operation was taking place in front of his church, a sanctuary church.

For the rest of the day, all our thoughts were with him and his community - and all our communities in this time of peril.

He was able to rejoin us at the retreat center in Queens by the time of Evening Prayer. He assured us that everyone in his community was safe and accounted for, but deeply shaken. And all is not well. 

What happened, according to a local news source:  

un­masked agents hand­cuffed an oth­er­wise uniden­ti­fied male—pos­si­bly some­one seek­ing refuge at the church. “We were ad­vised,” wrote [Tarrytown Police John] Chief Bar­balet, that they did not have a ju­dicial war­rant. Who the in­di­vid­ual was, what his le­gal sta­tus was and where he was taken are all ques­tions left unan­swered, pend­ing a re­sponse from ICE’s me­dia in­for­ma­tion of­fice in Wash­ing­ton.  

Who is that man, "possibly seeking refuge in the church," snatched from the street in broad daylight? Where is he now? How can we go on without knowing? Our hearts are breaking. This is life in America today.