A North Hollywood woman and her two young children were grappling Monday with the news that her husband, a pastor, was detained by immigration authorities during an appointment at the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles.

Victoria Carias said her 42-year-old husband, Noe Carias, pastor of the Southern Pacific District of the Assemblies of God, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during his check-in appointment Monday morning. Carias, who did not have a criminal record, was deported in 1993 and received another deportation order in 1995, for which he eluded deportation, his lawyer Noemi Ramirez said.

“I’m feeling devastated for what is happening, but I’m just trusting in God and hoping that something good can come out of all of this,” Victoria Carias, 39, said after a prayer vigil outside the Federal Building that houses offices for ICE and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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ICE officials did not have an immediate comment about the case on Monday.

When Noe Carias checked in with immigration authorities earlier this year, he was told he had to return in three months, which he did on Monday, said Victoria Carias, who is a U.S. citizen.

The family found out a few weeks ago that their request to stay his petition for removal was rejected, she added.

While the vast majority of arrests in the greater Los Angeles area still involve individuals who have criminal histories, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has made clear that no removable foreign national is exempt from enforcement.

Between Oct. 1 and June 12, about 91 percent of the 5,481 arrests made by ICE’s L.A. field office involved immigrants who have been convicted of a crime, according to ICE data. The field office covers the seven counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo.

Noe Carias, an evangelical pastor of six years, was born in Guatemala and came to the country when he was a teenager, said Guillermo Torres of Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice.

Community faith leaders were appealing to ICE’s Los Angeles field office director for enforcement and removal operations to save him from deportation, he said.

“It’s very tragic what’s happened here, very inhumane,” Torres said. The government is “taking a father, a pastor, who is not a threat to our country, (who) is not a threat to society (and is) being detained and torn apart from his family.”

Editor’s Note: This story was updated from an earlier version to note that Pastor Noe Carias had received two deportation orders in the 1990s.