It was an average Friday morning for Bimal Ray.

“I just came out of my house and I was about to start my car and I saw the police out around my neighbor’s house,” Ray said, a Bhutanese Nepali immigrant who lives in central Pennsylvania.

He stayed to watch the encounter, describing how it started with one ICE agent and ended with three; the agents showing a paper to a doorbell camera saying “We have a warrant."

Ray later learned that the officials were looking for the neighbor’s brother.

“Later in the evening, I asked my neighbor, so he said, yeah, they arrested him,” Ray said.

The brother was one of six Bhutanese Nepali men recently detained by ICE in the central Pennsylvania area. The arrests have taken place over the past two weeks.

Most Bhutanese came to the United States 10-20 years ago as refugees; an immigrant group that is extensively vetted and given a pathway to citizenship. Many were forced out of Bhutan in the 90s and lived in Nepal for years, before being accepted to live in the U.S..

“There's no place to be deported,” Bishwa Chhetri, a member in the region’s Bhutanese Nepali community. "Even if we were deported, let's say hypothetically— there is a regime sitting there ready to kick us out again, and send us back to Nepali refugee camps."

Three of the men have been detained in Pennsylvania facilities and two have been taken to facilities in Texas. Immigration advocates say that language barriers and the speed of deportations can shortcut due process.

“Things are happening so fast that sometimes people are not having a due process,”Laura Reeck said, refugee director for the Multicultural Community Resource Center. “[Immigration lawyers] working with a client in a location before that person is deported is actually almost rendered impossible.”

Community leaders say all six men have green cards.

A spokesperson for ICE said in a statement that claims the men are lawful permanent residents are “not true”. Ice has given no other details or reason for the men’s arrest.

At least one of the men has a past criminal record— his older sister told reporters that her brother had no active warrants or cases against him. Chhetri translated the woman’s words.

“He already served for what he’d done,” The woman said, according to Chhetri’s translation. "He was already working, leading a normal life. And to be picked up suddenly like this, we are very surprised and we want him back."

Dauphin County Commissioner Justin Douglas, who organized this week’s press conference on the issue, raised concern that if any of the men are accused of a crime— due process is to stand before a county judge, not be detained and deported at the accusation of crime. Likewise, process exists for those with past criminal records.

“There’s a process to remove someone’s green card, a legal process that the government can go through to revoke someone’s green card,” Douglas said. "That’s not what’s happening here. What’s happening is you’re detaining individuals and threatening deportation."

As details for the arrests remain limited, immigrant refugee communities are shaken by the upheaval of immigration processes at the federal level.

“Erie has a significant, well integrated Bhutanese Nepali population,” Reeck said. ,” Laura Reeck said, refugee director for the Multicultural Community Resource Center. “It is a very tight community. And what is happening in central Pennsylvania is known and affecting what is happening in Erie.”

Reeck says when immigrant communities that came to the United States through proper channels, see their neighbors detained—it blurs legal lines.

“I think this is creating a fair amount of uncertainty and fear among them [refugees] and making some people feel extremely vulnerable,” Reeck said.