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Cassandra Bocanegra holds a sign during a rally on Friday evening, Dec. 5, 2025, demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement release her father, Omar Ramos Jimenez. The 50-year-old Ramos Jimenez is known in the community as founder of the popular South Wedge La Casa restaurant. He is seeking asylum and was detained by ICE this week after the agency requested he come to their offices for a check-in. Bocanegra is the senior manager of organizing and strategy for the Finger Lakes chapter of the New York Immigration Coalition.
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Omar Ramos Jimenez, 50, is originally from Mexico and has lived in Rochester since 2004. He and his wife founded and ran La Casa on Alexander Street and, before that, operated La Placita at the Public Market.
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